LIYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 
906 
may nave other names as Hvpoxyion probably 
was and only one man has guessed at i 
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Xylaria ever grew, covered from head go foot'-, with perithecia, as 
shown. 
Xylaria ramulata is the smallest Xvle.ria hr.own. It is jet 
black, all carbonous, distinctly/stiped, usually apioulate with 
several perithecia., surf a..? in or if orm ; and spores 8 X 24, unusually 
large for a Xylaria. particular Iv such a Irttle Xylaria 
The Brasilian plant 
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exit may have 
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about 6 mio* small er* The Mew<- deal and p 
is closely gregarious on bark. It is po 
been named as liypcxylon but not probable, as 
sidered Hyp 0 x 7 Ions as sessile plants. But there are good reasons 
for calling it Hypoxylon for it in ali carbonous and a typical 
Xylaria has a whate stroma. 
XYLARIA BIT IZ Of.III LAi. ( Fig, 1713),- The Xylarias with brown, 
not carbonous crusts are few and we woi.-ld base a section cn them. 
The only two we have seen are the above from Australia., and Xylaria 
gramirrlcol'a from the Dt-ahen, and curiously enough both grow on grass 
roots, Xylaria rhuzophila, .in size- ana shape, is shown in our 
figure. The color is brown and there is no carbonous crust under 
the cuticle- as in most other brown species. The perithecia when de¬ 
veloped are strongly moriform and the spores are 3-6 X 10-14, much 
larger than described.. Ib is peculiar in its habits ("roots of 
grass) and but one collection is known, "Bailey, Australia". It 
is advertised as Cooke and Mas see, but I think it was Mvcs.ee as I 
have no record of seeing it in Cooke’s collection, out recently 
found it with specimens sent by Massee to New York, In addition it 
was published in Grevillea, Vol, 22, the only volume Masse.e issued. 
XYLARIA GRAMIMXCOLA (Fi.g 0 1714),- Similar to the Australian 
species as to habits, attached to grass rooos, this also has a. brown 
crust, not truly carbonous- but more so inclined than the Australian 
plant. It has a short stem, a tapering, strongly morifera club, j/ith 
a sterile apex. Spores are 5 X 8- 10. It was collected by Gerard 
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. forty years ago end was named and published 
by Peck, Although I believe this Is the only collect ron known trie 
plant is found in several museums, having been widely distributed by 
Gerard. We have a fine collection. 
XYLARIA CUPRESSJ.FOEMIS PROM G. K. CUNFINGIIA 
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ALAND 
(Pig. 1715),- We dislike to refer a New Zealand plant go a ^European 
species that we know only from a very 010 . figure ( Micaeli j rut it 
appears to agree with the figure and also with the account given by 
recent writers in Europe (Nitschke and Traverse). The plant, is quite 
close to Xylaria Schweinitzii but differs in the evident, pubescent 
stipe. Spores 8 X 24. Surface and stroma are same. 
TENETTES STRIATA. FROM PROP, T, FETCH, CEYLON (Pig. 1716).- 
