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re lore sent on the left a figure c 
ihe 
character!stic speci- 
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men from Professor Pet clip next above the type of Xylaria scop aria 
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from China but which is the same thing; next 
below 
a single specimen 
named Xylan a ni gripes var. trifida but which appears to be a form 
of xylaria fur cata and with no suggestion of Xylaria nigripes. On 
the right a chief form cf Xylaria fur cata collected by von Holme1 
in Java. 
Xylaria dichotoma, the. original of Montague from the American 
tropics (Pig. 1557) is we believe a closely related but different 
species, and devaricata of Pee, from the description seems the same. 
XYLARIA NIGRIPES, FROM PROFESSOR T. RETCH, CEYLON (Fig.1558). 
A fine collection and we are glad to get it as the first we 
have 
received of this common Eastern species. We believe it does not 
occur in the American tropics. We gave in xylaria Rotes, pp. 10 and 
11, a full consideration of the plant and there is little to add 
to it* Professor Perch in his exhaustive account of the species 
has recorded the peculiar, conidial form that occurs abundantly but 
never ClC / 0 ~L ops the asciferous form. 
He 
also sends me young, conidial 
plants, figured on the right, of the asciferous form and a fine col¬ 
lection of the mature plant. The spores of Xylaria nigripes are 
the smallest we ever noted in a Xylaria excepting furcata, being 
rarely over 4 mic« long. 
XYLARIA BRASILIEHSIS, FROM R 
IV. J. RICK, BRAZIL (Pig. 1553).- 
Plants with a strong rooting base growing on termite hills. Clubs 
cylindrical or flattened or irregular as shown in our figure, normal-, 
ly acute. Surface blade. Perithecia small, slightly but distinctly 
protruding. Spores 4-3, rarely 10 nic. 
> 
This appears in The issen's paper as Xylaria scotica var. 
brasiliensis, but it has nothing in common with Xylaria scotica_ 
which is not a species but an anomaly based on a distorted specimen 
that grew in "a hothouse and should never have been named. Probably 
it is an anomaly of the rare Xylaria Cuepinia of Europe. 
Xylaria brasiliensis grows in u sandy earth and termite nests 11 
or rather Rev. Rich advises us in grassy places where there are 
indications of old ant hills. It has been suggested that it may be 
the same as Xylaria nigripes, the ant hill species of the East. 
Fine collections of the latter species recently received from Prof. 
Petch show it is entirely different. (Cfr. Xylaria Rotes pp .10 and 
i — - - - ■ • - - ,+, 
11). As far 
our American tropics. We 
of one enlarged sixfold. 
as evidence exists the Eastern plant does not occur in 
present 
a photograph of four clubs and 
The figure of Xylaria Cuepinia that Theissen gives (Fig.3) 
appears similar to our figure of Xylaria brasiliensis. I have a very 
imperfect idea of this species of Europe for J.b is extremely rare 
and I have only seen it in an old exsiccsta from Italy. There Is 
a specimen at Kew which according to my photograph does not agree 
with the figure that Cesati gave, and the species is not clear to me 
and I think has been confused in Europe. From ail accounts it is a 
species that grows only on manure and in manured places. 
