214 Mycologia 



10. CoRDYCEPS SPHECOCEPHALA (Klotzsch) Masscc, Anil. Bot. 



9: 13. 189s 



SpJiacria sphccoccphala Klotzsch ; Berk. Loud. Jour. Bot. 2 : 206. 



1843. 

 Torruhia sphecocephala Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: 18. 1865. 

 Cordyccps sphccophila Berk. & Curt. ; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10 : 



376. 1868. 



Stromata 2-5 cm. high, consisting of a slender, sterile stem and 

 a fertile head ; stem pale-yellow, fibrous, often slightly twisted, 

 0.5-1 mm. thick ; head enlarged, clavate, 5-8 mm. in length and 

 1.5-2 mm. in thickness, roughened by the slightly protruding necks 

 of the perithecia ; perithecia immersed, scattered, prominent ; asci 

 very long, c}lindric ; spores nearly as long as the ascus, breaking 

 into fusoid segments 9-10 mic. long (pi. 5_/, /. 5--/). 



Springing from the bodies of wasps. 



Type locality : Jamaica. 



Distribution : West Indies. 



Illustrations: Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: pi. i, f. 5-p. 



Specimens examined: Cuba (specimen given by Mel. T. 



Cook) ; also collected by A'. L. Briitou and Percy Wilson. 



II. CoRDYCEPS CLAVULATA Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 



4: 188. 1832 



Cordyceps pistillariaeformis Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



III. 7: 451- 1 861. 



Tornibia pistiUariaeformis Cooke, Handbk. Brit. Fungi 771. 



1871. 

 Torruhia clavulata Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 70. 



1876. 



.Sclerotia formed in the bodies of dead scale-insects ; stromata 

 slender, clavate, at first sterile, at maturity with an enlarged, cla- 

 vate, 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 b}- the protruding necks of the perithecia ; asci 

 clavate, broader near the middle, 80-100 X 8-10 mic. ; spores 

 much elongate, subfiliform, broader near the base and tapering 

 toward either end, 7-8-septate about 50-80 mic. long, 3 mic. thick 

 at the broadest point, hyaline (pi. 55, /. 1-3). 



On dead scale-insects on the branches of various kinds of trees 



and shrubs. 



