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MB. BEBKELEY ON SOME BNTOMOaENOUS SPHJEBI-ffi. 



Eigbt species therefore belong to temperate climates, descending 

 however occasionally to warmer regions, and seven to tropical or 

 subtropical. Of the first eight, four belong to those temperate 

 parts of the Southern Hemisphere which often exhibit subtropical 

 species of Fungi. The Entomogenous SpTi<£ri<Sy then, on the 

 whole predominate in warm or equable climates. 



One doubtful entomogenous species, C. hicepJidla from Brazil, 

 has been omitted in the foregoing list. 



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1. COBDXCEPS ABMEKIACA, Berk. Sf Curt. ; armeniaca, stipite fleiuoso bre- 

 viusculo, capitvJo e peritheciis aspendo pallidiore. Curt. no. 3774. 

 {Plate 1, fig, 1.) 



Apparently on the excrement of birds, but probably on larvae contained in it. 



Hill, South Carolina, 



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ApTicot';Coloured. Stem J inch high, flexuous, sometimes twisted, paler than 

 the head, which is subhemispherical and rough with the ostiola. Asci 

 elongated, with a swollen apex ; sporidia immature. 



This species has some points in common with C. myrmecaphila^ 

 but it ie a shorter and far more robust plant, with a differently 

 lAiaped head. 



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2. COBDYCSPS ACiCViiABiS, Roeenel \ fosca^ stipite gracili elcnigato, capitulo 

 cylindrico apice sterili acuminato longiore; peritheciis superficiahbus 

 Uberis. Rav. no. 1276. {Plate l*fig. 2.) 



On caterpillars buried in the soil in damp shady woods. 



Summer. H, W, Ravenely Ssq. 



Stem 3 inches or more high, not half a line thick, brown below and 



inch 



South Carolina. 



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tomentose, smooth above and tawny, grooved when dry. 

 long, cylindrical, brown, studded with the free perithecia, above barren and 

 acuminate. Asci very long, flexuous ; sporidia linear, breaking up into 

 truncate joints yir?nr ^^ more rarely ^^^^^o inch long. 



This snecies is closely allied to C. BaveneliL but the habit is 



very 



can find no essential difierence in the fruit 



CoBDTCEPS STTiOPHOBA, Berk. Sf Broome ; fulva, stipite gracili, capitulo 

 in stylum producto subaequali ; peritheciis immersis. Sav. no. 1325. 

 {Plate I. fig. 3.) 



a larvse buried in rotten logs. South Carolina, Autumn, JT. W» Saveneh 

 Esq. 



em i-J inch high, J line thick, smooth, about as long as the cylindrical 

 head, which is produced into an acuminate sterile process as long or longer 

 than itself ; perithecia immersed. 



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have not seen the ripe asci of this species, which appears 

 B distinct frona either of the foregoing or subsequent sp 



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and in different situations 



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