Seaver: The Hypocreales of North America 215 



Type locality : Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 



Distribution : New York and Xew Jersey to North Dakota. 



Illustrations: Ann. ^lag. Nat. Hist. III. 7: pi 16, f. a-c; 

 Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. pi. ij, f. 11-13. 



ExsiccATi : Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Fungi 2814. Other speci- 

 mens examined: Delaware, Commons; New York, Peck; North 

 Dakota, Seaver; Ontario, Deanicss. 



12. Cordyceps Langloisii Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. 62. 



1892 



Stromata solitary, simple, consisting of a sterile stem and a sub- 

 globose head, the entire plant about 3 mm. high ; stem i mm. thick, 

 cylindric or subcompressed ; head capitate, at first white, becoming 

 reddish-purple, the upper convex surface fertile ; perithecia tough- 

 membranaceous, ovoid-conic, 100-150X200-300 mic, partially 

 immersed in the stroma ; asci very long, subcylindric ; spores fili- 

 form, interwoven, nearly as long as the ascus, less than 0.5 mic. 

 thick. 



On dead larvae of the mason wasp. 



Type locality : St. ^^lartinsville, Louisiana. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Specimens examined: Louisiana, Langlois (type). 



13. Cordyceps armeniaca Berk. & Curt. ; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 



i: 158. 1857 



Stromata solitary or 2 or 3 springing from nearly the same 

 point, 5-9 mm. high, consisting of a sterile stem and a fertile 

 head ; stem about i mm. thick, often flexuous and twisted, pale 

 orange with a tinge of pink ; head subglobose, 2-t, 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, filiform, becoming many-septate, 80-85 X i mic, breaking 

 into segments 3 mic. long (pi. 57, /. 2). 



On the excrement of birds (probably containing insect 

 remains). 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Distribution : South Carolina. 



Illustrations: Jour. Linn. Soc. i: pi. i, f. i; Ann. Bot. 9: 

 pi. 2, f. 18. 



