52 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 3 
Sclerotia formed within the bodies of dead scale- insects ; stromata slender, cla- 
vate, at first sterile, at maturity with an enlarged, clavate, fertile head and a slender, 
sterile stem, the whole 3-4 mm. high, 3-8 springing from a single sclerotium ; stem 
slender, 1-2 mm. long, grayish or cinereous ; head thicker, darker in color and strongly 
roughened by the protruding necks of the perithecia; asci clavate, broader near the 
middle, 80-100 X 8-10 #; spores much elongate, subfiliform, broader near the center and 
Neate toward either end, 7-8-septate, about 50-80 long, 3 » thick at the broadest point, 
yaline 
On dead scale-insects on the branches of various kinds of trees and shrubs. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York and New Jersey to North Dakota. 
Lb a ee Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III.7: pl. 16, f. a-c; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. #/. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 28/4. 
12. Cordyceps Langloisii Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 62. 1892. 
Stromata solitary, simple, consisting of a sterile stem and a subglobose head, the entire 
plant about 3mm. high; stem 1 mm. thick, cylindric or subcompressed ; head capitate, at 
first white, becoming reddish-purple, the upper convex surface fertile ; perithecia tough- 
membranaceous, ovoid-conic, 100-150 & 200-300 #, partially immersed in the stroma; asci 
very long, subcylindric; spores filiform, interwoven, nearly as long as the ascus, less than 
0.5 # thick. 
On dead larvae of the mason wasp. 
TYPE LOCALITY: St. Martinsville, Louisiana. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
13. Cordyceps armeniaca Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. 
Linn. Soc. 1: 158. 1857. 
Stromata solitary or 2 or 3 springing from nearly the same point, 5-9 mm. high, consist- 
ing of a sterile stem and fertile head ; stem about 1 mm. thick, often flexuous and twisted, 
pale-orange with a tinge of pink; head subglobose, 2-3 mm. in diameter, apricot-colored, 
‘roughened by the slightly protruding necks of the perithecia; asci long, cylindric-clavate, 
capitate, with a slender pedicel below; spores in a fascicle, slightly curved when free, fili- 
form, becoming many-septate, 80-85 1 », breaking up into segments 3 » in length. 
On the excrement of birds (probably containing insect remains). 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: South Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: p12. 1, 7.1; Ann. Bot. 9: 1.2, f. 18. 
14. Cordyceps Sphingum (Schw.) Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. 
Linn. Soc. 10: 375. 1868. 
Isavia Shhingum Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 126. 1822. 
Torrubta Sphingum Tul. Fung. Carp. 3:12. 1865. 
Stromata numerous, as many as thirty often springing from a single sclerotium, very 
slender and thread-like, about 5 cm. high and 1 mm. in thickness, cinereous, smooth or 
slightly pruinose, enlarged at the base, more or less bent above; perithecia subsuperficial, 
subconic, 125-150 200-225 #, brownish; asci elongate, cylindric ; spores filiform, as long 
as the ascus, about 2 uv thick. 
On dead larvae in cocoon. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey to North Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. £1. 15, f. 4-7; Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: £1.12, f. J, 2. 
15. Cordyceps Cockerellii (Ellis & Ev.) Ellis; Cockerell, 
Jour. Inst. Jamaica 1: 180. 1893. 
Ophioneciria Cockereillii Ellis & Ev.; Ellis, Jour. Inst. Jamaical: 141. 1892. 
Stromata effuse, spreading over and almost entirely covering the substratum, or erect 
and 1-2 mm. high, yellow; perithecia occurring in cespitose rounded or irregular clusters, 
or scattered, subsuperficial or nestling in the substratum; individual perithecia elongate, 
