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coriaceo-suberosa deorsum rotunda, supra compressa ramosa 
fulvo-velutina, apicibus pallidis sericeis. Cum. n. 2218. ` 
About 13 inch high, fasciculate, often connate; each indi- 
vidual springing from a little scutate base, generally cylin- 
drical below, compressed above and irregularly branched, 
rich brown, clothed with tawny down; apices paler, com- 
pressed, silky. 
The specimens, unfortunately, are not yet in fruit, but the 
species appear to be very distinct, 
30. Spheria (Cordyceps) pileiformis, (n. sp.); suberosa, 
ramosa e basi tuberosá; clavulis hemisphericis rufescentibus 
ostiolis nitidis nigris exasperatis. Cum. n. 1980. 
Springing from a black wrinkled simple or forked elongated 
sclerotoid tuber, exactly like that of Spheria pedunculata, 
(Dicks.) and with which it is perfectly continuous. The pe- 
duncles arise immediately from the tuber; or, in case they 
are broken, fresh peduncles are given from off the sides. In the 
specimens before me, there are only two heads on each 
plant: but indications exist that more are occasionally pro- 
duced. The peduncles are black and smooth, but finely 
Striate in the dry plant, much attenuated above, where they 
are paler, with a rufous tinge, and gradually expanded into 
the subhemispherical head. Heads barren below, with the 
border rounded, above pale rufous, convex, rough with the 
Scattered shining prominent black ostiola. Perithecia small, 
Ovate, with a short neck. 
This curious Sphe@ria is almost intermediate between Cor- 
dyceps and Poronia. 1 do not know any species to which it 
is allied. 'The contents of the perithecia were immature. The 
form of the head somewhat resembles that of Asterophora 
lycoperdoides. 
Tab. VII. fig. 6.—a, S. pileiformis, nat. size, 6. section of 
head, magnified, | 
31. Spheria (Pulvinata) peltata, (Jungh.), carnosa disci- 
formis centro suffulta, subtus albida pubescens, supra glabra 
pallido-umbrina, (alutacea, Jungh.) punctata. Cum. n. 
202x. 
