JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY 
Vol. HI. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, OCTOBER, 1887. No. 10. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES 
OF XYDARIA AND PORONIA. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
(Continued from page 102.) 
23. Xylaria carpophila (Pers.) Obs. Myc., 1,19. On decaying 
beech nuts. Carolina (Scliw. & Rav.), Pennsylvania (Everhart.) 
Stroma simple, flexuous, filiform, about one inch high and one millim. 
thick, round or a little spatulate, flattened or sometimes forked at the 
apex, white at first, becoming nearly black; fertile club thicker and 
mostly shorter than the stipe, which is more or less villose ; peritliecia 
tuberculose-prominent, much as in X. filiformis, apex of the club sterile ; 
asci cylindrical, pedicellate, spore-bearing part about 75 ! J - long and six 
!>■ wide; sporidia obliquely uniseriate, brown, inequilateral, obtuse, 
12—16 x 4—5 /-*. 
b. Capitulum furcate or divided. 
24. Xylaria cornu-dam^e, Schw. Syn. X. Am., 1,163. On old 
logs partly buried in the ground. Bethlehem, Pa., (Schw.), Carolina 
(Raven el.) 
Suberose, quite black, rather stout, subradicate, variously bent, 
black-flocculose below, compressed and dilated and furcate-branched at 
the apex, the end of the branches mostly abruptly acuminate, resembling 
ihe horns of a deer. In the young plant the upper part is cinereous- 
squamose, elsewhere covered with an extremely short, black tomentum ; 
perithecia rather large, somewhat prominent; ostiola obtuse, short-cyl¬ 
indrical ; sporidia 15—26 /->■ long, curved and narrow. 
The foregoing is taken from Schw. Syn. X. Am. and Saccardo’s 
Sylloge. The specimens in Rav. Car., I, 45, are quite simple (without 
any branches), linear clavate, 2—3 inches high, stem 1—H inches, club 
inches and about four millim. thick, probably considerably thicker 
when fresh ; perithecia covering the surface of the club, somewhat prom¬ 
inent, three fourths millim.; asci long (150 P) and narrow; sporidia 
uniseriate, oblong-fusoid, brown, slightly curved, ends often acute, 
15 —20 x 4—5 l l Specimens collected in West Chester, Pa., are some of 
them simple and undivided like the Carolina specimens, others have the 
