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which separate into joints 6-8 x |-1 /-e, with the ends slightly swollen. 

 The Ohio specimens are to all outward appearances identical 

 with the specimen in Herb. Sclnv. 



(\ acicularis, Rav. Linn. Journ. 1. c. fig. 2. 



Cordyceps Carolinensis, B. & Rav. in Rav Fungi Car. Bxsicc. IV, No. 29. 



Stipe slender, elongated, brown. Head cylindrical, with a long r 

 acuminate, sterile apex. Perithecia superficial, free. Asci very long, 

 liexuoiis. Sporidia linear, breaking up into truncate segments about 

 "> //. long. 



On larva? buried a little distance below the surface of the ground, 

 Carolina (Ravenel). 



We have copied the above description from Saccardo's Sylloge 

 II, p. 574. 



The specimens in Rav. Exsicc. have a filiform, fiexuous stem, yel- 

 lowish-brown below, cinereous and attenuated above, 8-10 cm. high, 

 and (in our copy) entirely sterile. 



C. Sphingnm, (Till.) " (Plate 15) 



Tonubia SphiHgntn, Tul. Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 12. 

 Isaria Sphingum, Schw. Syn. Car. 1298 (conidia). 

 Cordyceps Sphingiim, Sacc. Mich. I, p. 321, Cke. Syn. 46. 



Stromata numerous, about thirty in the single specimen found, 

 thread-like, about 5 cm. high and rather less than 1 mm. thick, cine- 

 reous, nearly smooth and glabrous, or slightly white farinose-tomentose, 

 bulbous at the base and more or less undulate and bent, especially 

 below and within the cocoon, which they seem to have penetrated 

 with some difficulty. Perithecia superficial, cylindric-conical, 200- 

 225 p. high, 125-150 tj. thick, rounded above, chestnut color. Ostiolum 

 not prominent. Asci linear-lanceolate, 150-200 x 6-7 //, when young, 

 with a depressed, conical tip about 4 /i wide. Sporidia filiform, 

 nucleate, about as long as the asci and about 2 p. wide, probably 

 finally separating into joints or segments. The larva from which the 

 fungus grows is about 3 cm. long and f cm. thick, and the stipes or 

 stromata arise from all the segments of the body. Some of the stro- 

 mata were sparingly branched above. 



On a dead larva in its cocoon, attached to a rotten limb lying on 

 the ground in the swamp, Newfield, N. J. 



In Tulasne's figure the fungus is represented as growing from the 

 perfect insect, and the perithecia are said to be of a pale red color 

 ("pallide rubentia"), but the Newfield specimen does not seem to us 

 specifically distinct. This species is also reported from Massachusetts 

 by Dr. Farlow. 



