CORDYCEPS ROBERTSII. Additional notes on this species 

 are afforded by an article published twenty-five years ago by Eric 

 Craig, now an elderly gentleman residing at Auckland, New Zealand- 

 As I have only the clipping I do not know where it was originally 

 published, and the article has not been brought to the notice of the 

 mycologists who have written on the subject. We summarize the 

 additional information afforded by this article. The host is the cat- 

 erpillar of Hepialus virescens, which, after its chrysalis state, becomes 

 one of the night butterflies of New Zealand. The Cordyceps are 

 eaten by the natives and called in their native Maori language, Pep- 

 eaweto and Hoteto. It is chiefly gathered around the roots of the 

 rata tree, though it occurs in forests where no rata grows. There 

 are in New Zealand two other varieties, one called by the natives 

 Aweto, is found in the Kumara beds; the other was found in the open 

 bush, but rarely. 



Fig. 718 



Cordyceps Craigii. 



CORDYCEPS CRAIGII, FROM ERIC CRAIG, NEW ZEA- 

 LAND. (Fig. 718.) Clubs solitary, growing from the heads of the 



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