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12. Xylaria fastigiata, Fr. Nov. Symb., p. 127 (Linn. Trans., 
1830, p. 536). 
Densely caespitose-connate, fistulose, black; clubs short, oblong or 
cylindric, obtuse, papillose-scabrous ; perithecia immersed, peripheric, 
globose, ostiola papilliform. On trunks in Costa Rica. (Oersted.) Stipes 
densely packed, joined at base and often ramose-concrescent, compressed, 
angular, often torulose and flexuous, an inch or more long and about a 
line thick, not truly villose, but covered at first with a dark, oppressed, 
subleprous coat; club not distinct from the stipe, comparatively small, 
slightly swollen, scarcely over two lines thick, unequal, bare, fastigiate, 
black; perithecia in a thin, black, peripheric layer, small, globose, slightly 
prominent, decurrent on the stipe ; sporidia oblong, curved, opaque. 
13. Xylaria multiplex (Kze.) Fr. On trunks in Mexico. 
(Hoegberg.) 
Caespitose, suberose, brown-black, clubs terete-compressed, subdi¬ 
vided, smooth, white inside ; stipes elongated, leprose-villose; perithecia 
entirely immersed, globose, crowded ; ostiola punctiform, becoming some¬ 
what dilated; sporidia ovoid, 20—22 p long. 
14. Xylaria Geoglossum (Schw.) Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.,Phil , Vol. 
V, tab. 1, fig. 4. Sent by Dr. Torrey fromXew York. Habitat not noted. 
Carnose suberose, simple, very black; club tongue-shaped, com¬ 
pressed, somewhat grooved, falcate, obtuse at the apex; perithecia 
oblong, black, somewhat prominent; ostiola minute, scarcely prominent; 
stipe three times longer than the club, subsquamulose, hairy at the base, 
slender, suberose, black outside, white within. Resembles a Geoglossum. 
Whole plant about one inch high (“pollicem altus.”) 
15. Xylaria corniformis, Fr. Summ. Veg. Seand., p. 381. 
Stroma simple, club-shaped, 1—H inches high and about one fourth 
of an inch thick, obtuse at the apex, light brown at first, finally black ; 
stem short (one fourth of an inch) hairy, attached to the matrix 
by an enlarged subdiscoid base ; perithecia subglobose, only 
slightly prominent, small; ostiola papilliform, minute; asci cylin¬ 
drical, on long pedicels, 8-spored, spore-bearing part 60—75 x 6—7 P ; 
sporidia obliquely uniseriate, somewhat inequilateral or nearly straight, 
rounded at each end and obtuse, opaque, 8—10 x 5 /'-. Common from New 
York to Florida on decaying limbs and logs. At Newfield, N. J., it is 
confined almost exclusively to fallen trunks of Magnolia glauca. It does 
not seem to be as abundant and common in the western and Pacific 
states. Spliceria Jlabelliformis, Schw., is an abortive state of this species, 
in which the short stem, instead of being surmounted by a fertile club, is 
divided above in a fimbriate or brush-like manner into many short, acute 
branches, the whole rising only to the height of about one fourth of an 
inch, forming a small, light, reddish or fiesh-colored tuft filled with 
abundant, minute conidia. 
C. Xylostyla. Apex of the club sterile, stem smooth. 
a. Head clavate , simple or crested. 
