CORDYCEPS OPHIOGLOSSOIDES (Figs. 856 and 857) is at- 

 tached to the host by attenuated, root-like fibrils. The 

 secondary spores (Fig. 859) are subcubical 2-3 x 3-4. 

 As to shape, it is always club form as far as I know. It 

 never takes the capitate form of the previous species. Fig. 859. 



Our figure 857, which shows the characteristic root attachment 

 of Cordyceps ophioglossoides, was made from the specimen in Tulasne's 

 herbarium at Paris. 



CANADENSIS, FROM 



CORDYCEPS CAPITATA VAR 

 J. UMEMURA, JAPAN. The usual 

 form of Cordyceps capitata is shown in 

 our figure 855. It occurs in Japan also, 

 for it was well illustrated in Illustrations 

 of Japanese Fungi, plate 12, figure 13. 

 At first sight it would appear that Mr. 

 Umemura's plant was Cordyceps ophio- 

 glossoides, with which it closely agrees 

 in form, instead of Cordyceps capitata. 

 The spores and host attachment, how- 

 ever, are those of Cordyceps capitata, 

 and it is only a form. It was named 

 as a species by Ellis, and the local 

 name he gave it is not very applicable 

 to a plant growing in Japan. While 

 both the type form and the variety of 

 Cordyceps capitata occur in Japan, the 

 corresponding species Cordyceps ophio- 

 glossoides is not recorded, though it no 

 doubt occurs there. 



ELAPHOMYCES JAPONICA, 

 FROM J. UMEMURA, JAPAN. 



The Elaphomyces from Japan, on 

 which Cordyceps capitata var. Can- 

 adensis was growing, impresses me at Flg - 86 - 



once as being different from what I had seen. The exoperidium 

 (cortex) (Fig. 861) had peeled away and separated from the inner 

 peridium, a feature I never noted on an Elaphomyces 

 before. In the nature of the warts, color of gleba. 

 and spores, it seems the same as Elaphomyces varie- 

 gatus of Europe, which, however, always has the 

 cortex closely adnate to the inner peridium. The 

 inner peridium, about 1 mm. thick, is only about 

 one half as thick as that of Elaphomyces variegatus, 

 and of a different texture. The European species has 

 a peridium as hard as a rock. This has much softer and thinner per- 

 idium, which cuts readily. It is probably best held as a form of the 

 European plant, but it is different in the features noted. 



Elaphomyces variegatus seems to me to belong to the same sec- 

 tion as granulatus and asperulus, but has much larger warts and thicker 



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Fig. 861. 



