Xylaria axillaris was not compiled in Thamnomyces in Saccardo,
but is evidently a very similar if not the same plant as Xylaria
setosa, and is only known from Currey's original account from
Africa. It is about a half inch high, with filiform stem, and
few, superficial perithecia. Spores are given as 25 to 32 mic.,
which are much larger than those of setosa.

Xylaria patagonica as named by Crombie as Thamnomyces and
compiled in Saccardo, Vol. 9, was based on Dillenius' old (1741)
figure t. 13, f. 11, from Patagonia, which, as far as the figure
goes, could be Xylaria setosa. Of course, nothing as known about
it.

Xylaria Schwackei, named by Hennings from Brazil, seems from
description to be Xylaria melanura.

Xylaria Warburgii, named by Hennings from New Guinea, seems from
the crude figure to be Xylaria carpophila.

Xylaria luzonensis, named from Philippines by Hennings, seems
from crude figure to be Xylaria multiplex in original sense of
Fries (not Thiessen).

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[Illustration: #Fig. 856.# Engleromyces Goetzei.]

THE GENUS ENGLEROMYCES.

Plants large, subglobose, with alveolate, sinuate carbonous exterior.
Stroma white, fleshy, 11/2-2 cm. thick. Perithecia carbonous, forming
several stratose layers, imbedded in the stroma in the depressions.
Spores 12-15x18-24, dark, smooth, curved, agreeing with Xylaria spores.

ENGLEROMYCES GOETZEI (Figs. 856 and 857).--This is the largest
Pyrenomycete, and as far as known only occurs in Eastern, tropical
Africa. In 1900 Hennings described and named it, and there are several
specimens on exhibition in the museum at Berlin. Some years later (1906)
a specimen reached Paris from the same region. It was sent to the
anthropological museum at Paris, the collector taking it for a
fossilized skull. The reference to a skull is not inappropriate as will
be noted from our photograph (Fig. 857) from the specimen at Paris.
Patouillard, not knowing of course what Hennings had done at Berlin,
renamed it Colletomanginia paradoxa. Our figure 856 shows a section, and
the arrangement of the perithecia. Practically nothing is known as to
its habits. Patouillard states it occurs on the trunk of Abies, Hennings
on Bamboo. We feel that on publication of our photograph there will be
no occasion for further names for it.

[Illustration: #Fig. 857.#]

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