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had a lot to say about the perithecia being "soft 
, oo 1 lapsing"«. The perithecia of this collection are firm, 
■olaborious and do not differ from those of other Xylaria species. 
Hie spores are large, fusiform and measure about 8 y 38. Xylaria 
comosa is an exceptional species (as explained in detail p„726) in 
having the conidial spores borne above the asciferous clubs. 
we 
Fe are pleased to receive also from Rev * Rich a specimen that 
present (rig. 1565) showing the manner in which these conidlal 
snores are borne. This specimen, however, bears a tuft of conidial 
spores at the base of the club. Usually we believe the tufts are 
terminal only. 
XYLARIA CARPOPHILA, FRO!.! REV. J. RICK, BRAZIL.- These speci¬ 
mens were sort to me as Xyraria palmicola, which it surely is, and 
the name under which it passes in Brasilian mycology. But we have 
always suspected that it was our xylaria carpophila, and on compari¬ 
son we find it exactly the same, with the same spores, same habits 
and same clubs and con not be different. 
Xylaria carpophila always grows on fruit of some hind. In 
Europe on beechnuts, haw berries and Carpinus fruit. In our country 
on the tulip tree cones, sweet gum fruit, peach stones, hichory nuts 
and. on the fruit of dogwood. In Brazil on the palm seeds. Several 
names have been given to it according to the host (Cfr. Note 428, 
Letter 62 ) but we are convinced they are all the same. If there are 
those who hold, that Xylaria paL dcola. differs from Xylaria carpo¬ 
phila., we invite them to designate in our figure ( rig.1566) which 
is the Brazilian species and which that of the States. 
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XYLARIA PYRAMID AT A.-* T. Petch, Ceylon, advises me that he 
never found this little species which is only hnown from the 
original collection by Thwaites many years ago in Ceylon. There is 
one specimen at Yew (fig.1567) which is all that is really hnown but 
it seems to be something suite characteristic. A portion of the 
advises me 
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type is also at Peradeniya, and. Professor Pet-cl 
the spores 3-4 X 5-7. It has been confused in Brazil with Xylaria 
discoidea (Xylari. Rotes, p. 13) but there is no possibility of its 
being that plant. The peculiarity of the species seems to be that 
it la s a tapering stem as if it grew in the ground and there are 
little scales on the stem which I am not able zc explain as I never 
saw anything similar on any other species. 
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XYLARIA GRAH3IICA, FROM T. HUNTER, F 
i AlMI'ja r~ we con¬ 
sidered. this plant (immature) on page >636 as Xylaria vairlabilis. 
The e are the first ripe specimens we have received and they fix 
