Part 1, 1910] HYPOCREACEAE 51 
7. Cordyceps entomorrhiza (Dicks.) Link, Handb. 3: 347. 1833. 
Sphaeria entomorrhiza Dicks. Pl. Crypt. Brit. 1: 22. 1785. 
Aylaria gracilis Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. pl. 86. 1823. 
Torrubia entomorrhiza Tul, Fung. Carp. 3: 14. 1865. 
Cordyceps Menesteridis Muell. & Berk.; Berk. Gard. Chron. II. 10: 791. 1878. 
Stromata consisting of a sterile stem and a subglobose fertile head; stem very slender, 
2-8 cm. long, yellowish ; head 5-84 mm., golden-yellow, darker with age, roughened, 
by the prominent necks ; perithecia ovoid, immersed or partially immersed ; asci cylindric, 
ia thick; spores filiform, many-septate, hyaline, finally separating into segments 6-8 
uw long. 
On larvae of insects. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: South Carolina; also in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Dicks. Pl. Crypt. Brit. p/. 3, 7. 3; Gard. Chron. II. 10: 791, f. 230; Tul. 
Fung. Carp. 3: pl. 1, 7. 12-14; Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. p/. 86. 
8. Cordyceps herculea (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 577. 1883. 
Sphaeria herculea Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Il. 4: 188. 1832. 
Stromata large, attaining a height of 5-7 cm.; stem yellowish or tan-colored; head 
enlarged and more than 1 cm. thick, with the fertile portion often interrupted, leaving bare 
patches and in the specimens examined terminated by a short, obtuse, sterile apex; fertile 
portion roughened by the slightly prominent necks of the perithecia; asci cylindric, as long 
as 200-225; spores filiform, nearly as long as the ascus, many-septate, separating into 
joints 6-8 X1z, 
On larvae (white grubs). 
TYPE LOCALITY :.Salem, North Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Connecticut to Ohio and North Carolina. 
9. Cordyceps stylophora Berk. & Br.; Berk. Jour. Linn. 
Soc. 1: 158. 1857. 
Stromata solitary, dull-brownish, consisting of a sterile stem and fertile head, with a 
long sterile apiculus, the entire plant 2-3 cm. high; stem straight or fexuous, more or less 
velvety, longitudinally wrinkled when dry; fertile head slightly roughened by the protrud- 
ing necks of the perithecia ; sterile apiculus 1 cm. or more long; asci cylindric or slightly 
constricted below the capitate apex ; spores arranged in a fascicle, filiform, curved when free, 
many-septate, 125-135 X14; segments 3.5 u« long. 
On larvae in rotten logs. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Michigan to South Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: 4/.7; Ann. Bot. 9: pl. 2, f. 40-#2. 
ExsiccaTl: Rav. Fungi Car. 5: 49. 
10. Cordyceps sphecocephala (Klotzsch) Massee, 
Ann. Bot.9: 13. 1895. 
Sphaeria sphecocephala Klotzsch ; Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2: 206. 1843. 
Torrubia sphecocephala Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: 18. 1865. 
Cordyceps sphecophila Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 376. 1868. 
Stromata 2-5 cm. high, consisting of a slender, sterile stem and fertile head; stem 
pale-yellow, fibrous, often slightly twisted, 0.5-1 mm. in thickness ; head enlarged, cla- 
vate, 5-8 mm. in length and 1.5-2 mm. in thickness, roughened by the slightly protrud- 
ing necks of the perithecia; perithecia immersed, scattered, prominent; asci very long, 
cylindric; spores nearly as long as the ascus, breaking into fusoid segments 9-10 4 long. 
Springing from the bodies of wasps. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION : West Indies. 
ILLUSTRATION: Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: p/. 1, f. 5-9. 
11. Cordyceps clavulata (Schw.) Ellis & Ev. N. Am. 
Pyrenom. 61. 1892. 
Sphaeria clavulata Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 188. 1832. 
Cordyceps pistillariaeformis Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 7: 451. 1861. 
Torrubia pistillariaeformis Cooke, Handb. Brit. Fungi 771. 1871. 
Torrubia clavulata Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 70. 1876. 
