form of Schweinitz ? species, called it Torrubia Sphingum. Berkeley 

 received specimens from Cuba of Tulasne's plant which he records 

 as Cordyceps Sphingum, and had the nerve to write "B. & C." 

 after it. 



It seems not to be a rare species in the West Indies, and I only 

 know it from southern United States. Ellis referred here a Cor- 

 dyceps growing on a cocoon in New Jersey. I have not seen it, but 

 as Ellis did not know Cordyceps Sphingum when he received it grow- 

 ing on the true host from the "type locality," he probably did not 

 correctly determine it when he found something on a different host, 

 and in a region from which no one else ever found the species. Cooke 

 states that Cordyceps Sphingum has been found in Switzerland, but 

 I do not know the source of this statement. We present a figure 

 originally from Tulasne, showing the moth bearing the Cordyceps 

 clubs. These are slender, quite numerous, and proceed from differ- 

 ent portions of the body of the insect. The perithecia are superficial 

 and scattered along the stroma. We also present a figure (831) of 

 the separate clubs enlarged (x6). This photograph was made from 

 the Cuban collection at Kew. 



SYNONYMS. As previously stated, Cordyceps Cockerellii (the cotype) is 

 typically Cordyceps Sphingum. The type at New York has shorter clubs, merely 

 a variation, on which was based the "species." Moeller gives a fine figure of Cor- 

 dyceps Sphingum bearing the perithecia more collected near the middle of the 

 stroma, under the name Cordyceps Moelleri, discovered by Hennings. There is a 



Fig. 832. 



my mind that Cordyceps locustiphila, Cordyceps tarapotensis 

 r j Lieana, all Henmngs discoveries from Brazil, although growing on 

 AVU ' a ?, a11 vanatlons of Cordyceps Sphingum. 

 Fie 83 iM?} nfr T 16 his a ^ Cle> he found in Berkeley's herbarium a specimen 

 which Curtt h/H C rdyc , e P s b P h "?g"m with well developed contiguous perithecia, 

 with the u-n a lhnllT e ^ (mSS) C u or ^ ce P. s sarioides. He proceeded to publish it 



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