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1-iibia e/ons^ata. On April 7, 1879, after ex- 

 amining the very lar,L;e lu-rliarium ami very 

 large collection of Prof. Farlow, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and the works of Tiilasne, 

 Corda, and Lowesky, Dr. Hagen wrote 

 us that we were quite justified in giving 

 it a new name ; but later researches have 

 developed the fact, as Dr. Hagen recently 

 wrote us, that the species was described 

 and figured in the Journal of the Proceed- 

 ings of the Linnean Society for 1857 (vol. 

 i, p. 159), by Berkeley, under the name of 

 Cordyceps ravenelii, and as this was doubt- 

 less the first description of it connected 

 with a name, the fungus must hereafter be 

 known as Torrubia rai'i'nelii — all subse- 

 quent names being synonyms. 



Mr. Berkeley gives, in the paper already 

 alluded to, the following species of ento- 

 mogenous species of Cordyceps which were 

 at that time known : 



C. iiiilitaris and cntomorrhiza are com- 

 mon to Europe and the United 

 States. 



C. myrmecophila is found in England and 

 Italy. 



C. gracilis in Scotland and Algiers. 



C. sinensis in China, where it is used as 

 a drug. 



C. gunni and taylori in Australia. 



C. sinclairii and rohertsii in New Zea- 

 land. 



C. racemosa and falcata at Myrong in 

 the Khazia mountains of Bengal. 



C. armeniaca in South Carolina. 



C. sobolifera and sphecocephala in the 

 West Indies. 



C. larvata in Cayenne. 



This list shows that the entomogenous 

 SphcErice predominate in warm or equable 

 climates. He then describes four other 

 species from South Carolina, and we quote 

 his description of C. ravenelii in full, with 

 the simple remark that Ancyloiiycha is the 

 old Dejeanian genus for Lacluwsterna. 



Cordyceps ravenelii. Berk, and Curtis ; fusca, 

 siipite elongalo flexuoso sulcato compresso glab- 

 riusculo, capitulo cylindrico attenuate longiore ; 

 peritheciis superficialibus. Curt. No. 30S0, Rav. 

 No. 1272. 



On larvx oi Aitcylonycha Dejean, or y?/«'2<7/ro- 

 gus Latreille, buried one or two inches in the 

 earth. Spring and suminer. South Carolina' 

 Rev. M. A. Curtis and H. W. Ravenel, Esq. 



Brown. Stem 2 inches or more high, flexuous, 

 compressed or grooved, at first minutely to- 

 nientose, at length smootli ; head 5^ inch long, 

 cylindrical, but slightly attenuated ai either end. 

 Perithecia free, ovnie ; a^^ci very long; sporidia 

 (F'g- 55i ") very long, filiform, breaking up into 

 joints tiAiii of an inch long. 



This species has very much the habit of 

 C. sinensis, and Mr. Berkeley remarks that 

 none of the entomogenous species de- 

 scribed by himself froir. South Carolina 

 "are coinpletely isolated from the rest, for 

 Cordyceps palustris resembles C. sobolifera; 

 C. stylophora and acicularis are connected 



[Fig. .W.l 



Fructification of White Grub Fungus (after Berkeley). 



through C. ravenelii with C. sinensis ; and 

 C. armeniaca calls to mind the apricot-col- 

 ored C. myrmecophila. Besides these spe- 

 cies I have received C. militaris from South 

 Carolina, where C. cntomorrhiza also oc- 

 curs under a very fine form." 



The following references to this fungus 

 are enumerated here as additional to those 

 in purely scientific publications, and be- 

 cause they are liable to be overlooked by 

 mycologists: 



Kirtland, J. P. [Prairit- Farmer, July 29, 1865, 

 p. 71), briefly refers to it, in an article on Pear 



