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C. Langloisii, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Stromata solitary, simple, capitate, about 3 mm. high. Stipe 

 about 2 mm. high and 1 mm. thick, round or subcompressed, head 

 depressed-globose, soft and spongy, about 2 mm. across, white at first, 

 soon becoming reddish-purple. The perithecia which occupy the 

 upper convex surface of the head are of a tough membranaceous 

 texture, ovate-conical, 250-300 (i high and 100-150 p. broad at the 

 widest part, nearly half the upper part projecting and more deeply 

 colored. Asci fusoid-linear, 1 80-200 x 2-2 /i, attenuated towards 

 each end. Sporidia filiform, interwoven, nearly as long as the asci. 

 less than \ p. thick. 



On dead larvae of the " mason wasp,' 7 near St. Martinsville, La. 

 (Langlois2295.) 



C. militaris (Linn.) 



Clavaria militaris, Linn. Sp. Pi. Ed. Ill, torn. II, p. 1652. 

 Clavaria granulosa, Bull. Champ. 1, p. 199. 

 Sphczria militaris, Ehr. Beitr. z. Naturkde. torn. Ill, p. 86. 

 Cordiceps militaris, Lk.Hndbk. Ill, p. 347. 



Kentrosporium militare & K. clavatum, Wallr. Beitr. pp. 166 & 167. 

 Torrubia militaris, Tul. Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 6. 

 Cordyceps militaris, Sacc. Syll. 5031. 

 Exsicc. Plowr. Sph. Brit. 501. Sydow M. March. 654. Rab. F. E. 3548. 

 Roum. F. Gall. 3157. 



Stromata solitary, or sometimes several, issuing usually from the 

 head, but sometimes from the articulations of the pupa, orange-colored, 

 4-5 cm. high, including the elongated-clavate head, which is 11 J cm. 

 long, and minutely tuberculose from the subcorneal, emergent, orange- 

 red perithecia. Asci slender, 115-150x4-5 ju, containing eight slend- 

 er, filiform, closely-jointed sporidia nearly as long as the asci, and break- 

 ing up into minute, hyaline, subelliptical segments 2-3 // long. The 

 conidial stage (Isaria farinosa, Fr.) is often met with and resembles 

 a small white plume of about the same height as the ascigerous stroma 

 and more or less branched above. 



Growing from dead pupae of moths buried just below the surface 

 of the ground. Massachusetts (Farlow), Carolina (Ravenel), Pennsyl- 

 vania (Everhart), New York (Peck), New Jersey (Ellis), California 

 (Harkness), Wisconsin (Trelease) conidial stage. 



C. Ravenelii, B. & C. Journ. Linn. Soc. 1, p. 159, tab. 1, fig. 4. 



Exsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. IV, no. 28. 



Stroma (stipe) elongated, flexuous, compressed and sulcate when 

 dry, at first minutely tomentose, finally nearly glabrous, 5 inches or more 

 high, (see Riley, in American Entomologist, 1880), including the elon- 



