MYCOLOGICAL FOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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author suspected. We did not locate the original at Paris and it is 
difficult to refer Montagne’s globose, smooth specimens as figured 
to Xylaria comosa. However, I now think, that is correct although I 
have puzzled over dhe question many times without reaching this con¬ 
clusion. I never saw Xylaria comosa when it 'was either hollow or 
smooth. We present in Pig.1786 a photograph of these fine specimens 
and the surface enlarged. 
XYLARIA TEFTACULATA (Figs. 1788 and 1791 enlarged sixfold 
and Fig. 1787 conidial state, natural size).- From Miss Mary Fitz¬ 
gerald, Forth Carolina, I received several years ago a single Xyla¬ 
ria head which I suppose belongs to Xylaria tentaculata as described 
by Berkeley from Forth Carolina and Cuba. I also received from her 
several conidial collections (Fig. 1787 ) but did not connect the two. 
At Kew I found only the conidial form but it is evident to me that 
Berkeley, from his description, had also the mature form. One would 
hardly connect the two and I did not until I noted that one of Atkin¬ 
son's students had developed the fertile plant from culture. Xylaria 
tentaculata is usually only collected in the conidial form. I have 
several collections from Miss Fitzgerald, and I did not find the 
ascus state at Kew or in any other European museum. It is known 
only from our southern states and from Cuba and is rare. It occurs 
however strange to say, at Ithaca, F. Y. In Grevillea, Berkeley 
cited it as "Rav. Ms." and in Cuban list as "Berk. & Broome", which 
is an example of the value of his advertising scheme. Ravenel re¬ 
ferred it, as evidenced by a specimen he sent Ellis, to Xylaria 
comosa, which species, however, has never been collected in the 
United States. 
XYLARIA COFFUSA (Fig. 1789).- This was named and figured 
from Brazil by Starback. It was collected in Cuba by Wright and 
referred by Berkeley to Xylaria tentaculata, an evident error, as it 
is branched in a different manner. It is only known from the 
conidial state. 
XYLARIA PEF1CILLA (Fig. 1790).- A species evidently related 
to the preceding two and only known from a specimen ( Joins ton 930, 
Porto Rico) at Few York, has a close resemblance to a camel's hair 
brush. Our figure, 1790, natural size, will enable it to be recog¬ 
nized if found again. 
XYLARIA LOFGIPES FROM MR, JOHF GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig. 
1798 ).- This is not exactly the same as the European plant, but 
close. The stipe is thicker, the surface is smoother and the spores 
5 X 10 are smaller than the European longipes, 8 X 18. We should 
prefer not to name it as different on one collection. It belongs to 
the polymorphous group with solid stroma, 
KRETZSCHMARIA BOTRITES FROM T. F, CHIP?, SIFGAPORE (Fig. 
1793),- We gave in our Large Pyrenomycetes pamphlet, page 18, 
figures of all the Kretzschmarias but nothing like this. Growing 
caespitose with long (8-3 inches) black, much branched, matted stipes. 
Heads globose, medium, separate and distinct. Perithecia large, few 
3-3 in a head, imbedded in a carbonous stromata. Ostio.'Les minute. 
Spores large, 10 X 34 with rather obtuse ends. In a general way 
