50 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 3 
On moist rotten logs, growing from the larvae of some coleopterous insect. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Jour. Linn: Soc. 1: pi. Z. 
3. Cordyceps Ravenelii Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. 
Linn. Soc. 1: 159. 1857, 
Stromata usually solitary, 3-8 cm. high, consisting of a sterile stem and fertile head ; 
stem 2-5 cm. long, grooved or furrowed, brownish, becoming nearly black on drying, about 
2-3 mm. in diameter ; fertile head terminal or more rarely with a sterile apex, or with the 
perithecia in patches, with bare, sterile spaces between; perithecia partially immersed, 
becoming almost entirely superficial, giving the fertile portions a very rough appearance, 
similar in color to the stem; asci very long, cylindric; spores filiform, nearly as long as 
the ascus, breaking up into segments 4-5 « long. 
Springing from the larvae of coleopterous insects. 
TYPE LOCALITY : South Carolina, : 
DISTRIBUTION : South Carolina to Pennsylvania (and Iowa ?). 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: 41.7; Jour. N. Y. Micr. Soc. 1: 92, f. 3. 
ExsIccatTi: Rav, Fungi Car. 4: 28. 
4. Cordyceps acicularis Rav.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: 158. 1857. 
? Torrubia Melolonthae Tul. Fung. Carp.3: 12. 1865. 
? Torrubia superficialis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 70. 1876. 
? Cordyceps Melolonthae Sacc. Michelia 1: 320. 1878. 
Stromata simple, elongate, slender, cylindric, often flexuous, brownish, minutely 
velvety at the base, smooth above, 5-8 cm. high and 1.5 mm. thick; head cylindric, about 
1.5 cm. long and 3 mm. thick; perithecia blackish, large, ovoid, subsuperficial; asci sub- 
cylindric, capitate at the apex, with a short pedicel below; spores arranged in a parallel 
fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, straight or curved, many-septate, 130 X 2.54; 
segments 3,5 » long. 
On larvae buried in the ground. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: £1.17; Ann. Bot.9: pl. 2, f. 27, 28. 
ExsiccaT1: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 29 (as Cordyceps carolinensis Berk. & Rav.). 
5. Cordyceps insignis Cooke & Rav.; Cooke, 
Grevillea 12: 38. 1883. 
Stromata 4-6 cm. long, purple; stem 7-8 mni. thick, equal, pallid, sulcate (when 
dry), very minuely velvety at the base; head broadly ovoid, 1.51 cm., very slightly 
roughened by the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia; asci narrowly cylindric, 
slightly constricted below the capitate apex, narrowed below into a slender stem-like 
base; spores arranged in 4 parallel fascicle, slightly twisted, hyaline, filiform, many- 
septate, wavy when free, 170-180 X15 », separating readily into segments in the ascus; 
segments 6-7 # long. 
On larvae on the ground. ; 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. : 
DisTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
6. Cordyceps flavella Berk. & Curt.: Berk. Jour. Linn. 
Soc. 10: 375. 1868. 
Stromata gregarious, 3-5 springing from nearly the same point; stem 2.5-3 cm. long, 
about 1 mm. thick, straight or more or less curved or flexuous, even and smooth; head 
globose, roughened by the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia, 2 mm. in diameter, 
similar in color to the stem; asci elongate, narrowly cylindric, capitate at the apex, 
narrowed below into a slender pedicel; spores arranged in a fascicle, filiform, many-sep- 
tate, 80 X1; component cells about 44 long. 
Growing from a caterpillar. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ann. Bot. 9: pl. 2, f. 7-10. 
