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black, ostiola slightly papillate, black, asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
narrowly fusiform, straight, or curved, 16-18x4 /x. 
On wood. Queensland. 
1530. Xylaria lobata. Cooke Grev. xi., 86, t. 166, fig. 57. 
Sacc. Syll. 5949. 
Large, corky, shell-shaped, sessile (3 in. or more diam., £ in. 
thick), flattened, circumference lobed, brown, even, rather shining; 
lobes rounded, white within; perithecia crowded, globose, black ; 
ostiola very minute, punctiform, plane ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
narrowly lanceolate, straight, or curved, brown, 12x3 /x. 
On wood. Queensland. 
1531. Xylaria castorea. Berk. FI. N. Zeal. 204, t. 105, /. 
10. Grev. xi., t. 167, /. 60. Sacc. Syll. 1246. 
Stem short, at first spongy, velvety, at length naked, rugose, 
black ; clubs obtuse, ovate, or subolliptic, compressed, and 
minutely areolate (2-3 c.iu. high, 12-16 m.m. thick) ; ostiola 
rather prominent, rough; asci narrow; sporidia ovoid-oblong, 
sooty brown, 10 y. long. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. N. Zealand. Tasmania. 
1532. Xylaria allantoidea. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1839, p. 
397. Grev. xi., t. 167,/. 62. Sacc. Syll. 1178. 
Stroma clavate, obtuse, compact, encrusted with black, coria- 
ceous (1-2 in. long, or more, | in. thick) ; stem very short, 
smooth ; perithecia minute, globose ; ostiola minute, rather pro- 
minent. Asci cylindrical ; sporidia continuous, brown, 10-12 x 
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On stumps. Queensland. Victoria, Musgrovc Range. Fiji. 
(Fig. 197.) 
1533. Xylaria fistulosa. Lev. Fr. Nov. Symb. 126. Grev. 
xi., t. 167,/. 63. Sacc. Syll. 1185. 
Corky, simple, club-shaped, with a varnished crust, opaque, 
black, hollow (2-2-| in. long, j in. thick), confluent with the short, 
naked stem, perithecia globose, ostiola crowded, rather prominent, 
shining black ; asci cylindrical; sporidia oblong, uniguttulate, 
continuous, brown, 20 X 3^ y. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
1534. Xylaria dealbata. B. C. Exot. Fun. 284. Grev. 
xi., t. 167,/. 64. Sacc. Syll. 1223. 
Club elliptical (l£ in. long, £ in. thick), attenuated downwards 
into a short, cylindrical stem, wholly covered with a fragile, 
whitened crust. Asci elliptical; sporidia large (40 X 10 y), con- 
tinuous, brown. 
On rotten trunks. Queensland. 
1535. Xylaria anisopleura. Mont. Syll. 688. Grev. xi., 
t. 168, /. 70. Sacc. Syll. 1219. 
Solitary, woody, very hard ; club obovate (| X j in.), as well 
as the oblique obconic stem, opaque, scaly, pallid within and 
