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ted-cylindrical head, which is roughened by the superficial, black, 

 Babhemispherical, large (175-200 p) perithecia. Asci linear-cylin- 

 drical, 150-2U0 x 7-9 p, slightly narrowed above and rounded at the 

 apex, containing 8 filiform sporidia nearly as long as the asci, about 

 2 p thick, and breaking up into joints 3-5 p long. The specimens in 

 Rav. Fungi Car. Exsicc. IV, No. 28, are 8-10 cm. high, the yellowish- 

 brown stem about 2 mm. thick, enlarged above, in that part occupied 

 by the perithecia, to about 3 mm. thick; but the specimens are no 

 doubt considerably smaller than when fresh. 



Growing from dead larvae of the "June beetle " {Lachnostema 

 fused) and other larvae (?) buried in the ground, Carolina (Ravenel), 

 Iowa (Bessey), Pennsylvania (Everhart). 



Descriptions and good drawings of this and the two preceding 

 species are given in Journ. N. Y. Microscop. Soc. Vol. I, p. 91, et seq., 

 by Rev. J. L. Zabriskie. 



C. insignis, Cke. & Rav. Grev. XII, p. 38. 



Livid-purple. Stipe straight, 3-4 cm. high, pale, sulcate, equal. 

 Head subglol)ose or ovate, slightly roughened by the perithecia, which 

 are minute, crowded, ovate; the punctiform ostiola a little darker, 

 Asci cylindrical, very long (600 p), erumpent. Somewhat resembles 

 C. Entomorrhiza, but is larger and more robust. Stem about 4-5 mm, 

 thick and longitudinally sulcate. Head 1J cm. long and 1 cm. broad. 

 Sporidia filiform (450 p long), breaking up into segments 12 p long. 



On dead larvae buried in the ground, Carolina (Ravenel), 



C. herculea, (Schw.) 



Spharia fierculea, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1153. 



Head large (12 mm. thick), ovate-clavate, obtuse, decurrent on 

 the attenuate-elongated stem, alutaceous (leather-color), yellow within, 

 stipe also yellow. Perithecia rather small, concolorous. Height of 

 the whole fungus, about 1 \ inches (36 mm.) 



On the ground, among fragments of decaying wood, Salem, N. C, 

 (Schweinitz). 



A fine specimen of this species has been sent from Ohio by Prof. 

 A. P. Morgan. When fresh it was about three inches high and half 

 an inch thick, growing from some dead larva of considerable size. 

 The fertile head, which occupies about an inch of the upper part of the 

 stem, leaving a short, rather obtuse, sterile tip, is of a light yellow 

 color and roughened by the somewhat prominent, closely-packed peri- 

 thecia, which ' are about 150 /i in diameter, with slightly prominent 

 ostiola, of a pale, radiate-fibrous structure. Asci 200-225x6-7 p, 

 gradually attenuated to the base and containing eight filiform sporidia 



