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whole one in the collection, about a line thick and, in 1 he dry state, 
longitudinally cavernose-rugose; club about 14 inches long and one 
fourth of an inch thick, obtuse, bare, opaque, black and at the first glance 
appearing rimose-corrugated, but in reality the surface is densely collic- 
ulose by reason of the slightly prominent perithecia, with depressed 
papilliform ostiola. The perithecia are rather large, exactly globose, 
peripheric, not very regularly arranged and have a dark-colored nucleus. 
The asci and sporidia are almost the same as in the preceding species. 
3. Xylaria rhopaloides (Kunze) Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1885, III, 
p. 99, and 1840, XIII, Cent. II, No. 27. 
We find under these references no detailed description of this species, 
but in Cooke's figure in Grev., pi. 163, fig. 14, it is represented as subcaes- 
pitose, the short stem-like base dividing above into two clavate-cylin- 
drical, ferile branches. Saccardo, in Syll. I, p. 326, says the asci are 
briefly stipitate, cylindrical, 8-spored, sporidia 8—10 !>■ long (10 x 5 sec. 
Cooke, in Grev. XI, p. 82.) 
4. Xylaria 3IULtifida (Kunze) sec. Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1845, III, 
p. 45. The following description of this species is copied from Grev. XI, 
p. 85: 
“ Stromate conidiifero erecto, furcato-partito, palmatoque, albido; 
stromate ascigero simplici, atro, erecto, clavato; stipite sequilango, 
tenui, atro, glabro (?); peritheciis globosis, atris, prominulis; ascis 
cylindraceis, stipitatis; sporidiis fusiformibus, obtusis, imequilateralibus, 
fuscis, (.01—.012 x .004—.005.) On trunks. Java and Central America. 
In Herb. Paris. Greatly resembles X. Hypoxylon , of which it may be 
a variety.” 
5. Xylaria tentaculata, Rav. MS. Journ. Linn. Soc. X, p. 
381; X. tentaculata , 13. & I3r., Grev. IY, p. 48. 
Stipe weak, elongated, slender, glabrous; head short-cylindrical, 
roughened by the ascending ostiola ; apex adorned with flagelliform pro¬ 
cesses. On decaying wood. June. South Carolina, 14 inches high. No. 
603 is a variety in which the processes have short, patent branchlets 
resembling somewhat X. comosa , but without its velvety skin. (Linn. 
Journ., 1. c.) The characters given in Grevillea are as follows : “ Stipe 
elongato glabro fusco ; capitulo brevi cylindrico, processibus tentaculi- 
formibus coronato. In shaded swamps, among mosses and rotten wood. 
Car. Inf., Ravenel, No. 1,300. Stem one inch high, not a line thick; head 
cylindrical, 1—2 lines long, ostiola prominent, tending upwards, crowned 
by several tentacular processes about one half an inch long. Allied to 
Xylaria comosa, Mont.” 
6. Xylaria olobapha, Berk , in Herb. Kew., Grev. XI, p. 84. 
“Stroma erect, clavate, rufous, attenuated below into a short, 
slender, glabrous, equal stipe; perithecia globose, black, ostiola puncti- 
form, flat; asci cylindrical, stipitate; sporidia lanceolate, curved or 
straight, fuscous, 20—22 x 84 y. On trunks, Brazil, Mexico. Whole 
plant 2—24 inches high, of which the club occupies half; club 1 cm. thick.” 
