ADDITIONAL NOTES ON CORDYCEPS. 



I am particularly interested in Cordyceps. They are most 

 curious plants, usually developed from the bodies of some insect, 

 larva, or pupa. I trust any one 

 who finds specimens will favor me 

 by simply drying and sending to 

 my address. The host should 

 always be dried and sent with the 

 Cordyceps attached. If the species 

 is small and several are found, I 

 should like a liberal collection. 

 The tropical species are very im- 

 perfectly known. 



Fig. 830. 



Cordyceps Sphingum. Fig. 830, from Tula 



Fig. 831. 



Fig. 831, clubs enlarged 6 i 



CORDYCEPS SPHINGUM (Figs. 830 and 831). We have re- 

 ceived for inspection, from Archibald H. Ritchie, Government En- 

 tomologist of Jamaica, a cotype specimen of what Ellis called, from 

 the West Indies, Cordyceps Cockerellii (originally Ophionectria 

 Cockerellii), and it proves to be typically the well-known Cordyceps 

 Sphingum which was well illustrated by Tulasne. Schweinitz found 

 a conidial growth on a sphinx moth which he named Isaria Sphingum. 

 Tulasne found a Cordyceps on the same moth, on insects from West 

 Indies, in the museum at Paris, and assuming that it was the perfect 



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