. superficialis, (Pk.) 



Torrubia superficialis, Pk. 2Sth Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 70. 

 Cordyceps superficialis, Sacc. Syll. 5036, Cke. Syn. 36. 



Slender, about one inch high, smooth, brown, the sterile apex 

 gradually tapering to a point. Perithecia crowded, superficial, sub- 

 globose, blackish-brown, sometimes collapsed, with a small, papilliform 

 ostioluni. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia long, slender, filiform. Re- 

 lated to and intermediate between C. Ravenelii and C. acicularis. 

 The stem of the plant is about equal in length to the club, or peri- 

 thecia-bearing part. The perithecia are more loosely placed at the 

 extremities of the club, thereby giving it a subfusiform shape. The 

 sporidia are more slender than those of C. ocicularis, but the plant 

 itself is less elongated and slender." We have seen no specimens, and 

 copy the above from the report cited, 



Under hemlock trees, on buried larva?. Xorthville. N. Y. (Peck 



C. sobolifera, (Berk.) 



Sphczria sobolifera, Berk. H6ok. Lond. Journ. Bot. II, p. 207. 

 Cordyceps sobolifera, Sacc. Syll. 5021, Cke. Syn. 23. 



Head 58 mm. long, ovate-oblong or tongue-shaped, dotted with 

 I lie minute ostiola of the buried perithecia. and a little thicker than 

 !he stipe, which is stout, round, rigid, erect, simple or with rudi- 

 mentary branches. 15-20 mm. or more in height. Asci cylindrical. 

 Sporidia separating into linear joints about eight times as long as 

 broad. 



On the larvae of some lamellicorn insects, in the AYest Indies, and 

 in Mexico. 



Some of the Mexican specc. were much branched; instead of the 

 fertile head, presenting a contracted panicle, or brush-like tuft of 

 deformed brandies.. The anterior portion of the affected larvae i> 

 enveloped in a white mold. 



B. Mycogenous. 

 C. ophioglossoides, (Ehr.) 



Spluzria ophioglossoides, Ehr. Beitrag, III, p. 88. 

 Clavaria parasitica, Willd. Fl. Ber. Prod. p. 405. 

 Clavaria radicosa, Bull. Champ. I, p. 195. 

 Spluzria radicosa, DC. Fl. Franc. II, p. 283, 

 Cordiceps ophioglossoides, I,k. Hndbk. Ill, p. 347, 

 Torrubia ophioglossoides, Tul. Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 20, 

 Cordyceps ophioglossoides, Sacc. Syll. 5038, Cke. Syn. 48. 



Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 427. id. F. Eur. 442. Rehm. Asc. 471. Thum. M. U. 569. 

 Sydow M. March, 280. 



Stromata solitary, rarely cespitose, simple or very rarely branched, 

 flexuous, subcompressed,carnose, yellow within. 8-12 cm. high, 5-8 mm. 



