it has numerous 15-20 immature branches, resembling the head of a 

 Medusa. There are several collections (as our figure) received at a 

 later date at Kew and the British Museum and referred to this species. 

 Not one of them had more than four primary branches, and are quite 

 different in appearance to me from the original specimen. I have a 

 specimen received through the Botanical Garden, Warsaw, Russia. 



CORDYCEPS HENLEYAE (Fig. 622). Solitary, stem pro- 

 ceeding from the head of a large larva, seven inches high, five mm. 

 thick, bearing above about a dozen fertile branches. Perithecia 

 superficial. Spores separating in the ascus into numerous small 

 secondary spores 2^ mic. long. 



No other similar Cordyceps is known, and this is known from a 

 single specimen at Kew. It was collected by Miss M. Henley in 

 Victoria, Australia, and described and figured by Massee in 1895. 

 Our photograph (fig. 622) of the type tells the whole story. The 

 host is evidently the same, or a similar larva to the one that bears 

 Cordyceps Taylori. 



CORDYCEPS DOVEI (Fig. 620). This is known to me only 

 from the figures at Kew, evidently the original drawing by Rodway. 

 It is a most curious species, the short sessile clubs forming a cluster 

 at the apex of the host. There is no other similar species figured 

 from any country. It was published in the Trans. R. S. Tasmania, 

 Aug., 1898, and has entirely escaped Saccardo. 



Fig. 623. Fig. 624. Fig. 625. 



Cordyceps gracilis. Australian form. Section of head enlarged. 



CORDYCEPS GRACILIS (Fig. 623). Head globose or oval, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter, dark yellowish brown. Stem 2-3 cm. long, 

 2 mm. thick, yellowish, attached, to the host by a rooting base. Per- 

 ithecia imbedded, the mouths slightly protruding, so that the head is 

 minutely rugulose. 



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