SCLEROTIUM STIPITATUM PACHYM A COCOS. 



201 



Sderotium 

 roseum. 



Sderotium 

 stipitatum. 



under particular treatment, may always be made to produce a iseo. 

 species of Cordyceps, an observation which has since been veri- 

 fied by Mr. Berkeley and other mycologists. There is a black, 

 cylindrical, fungoid body found in the interior of the stems of 

 rushes, long known by the name of Sderotium roseum, which 

 has lately been founcf to give rise in the spring of the year to a 

 species of Peziza, a description of which will be found in the 

 1st volume of the Journal of this Society. 1 This Sderotium has 

 also been treated successfully under cultivation : a specimen was 

 gathered last November and kept during the winter under the 

 requisite conditions of moisture ; and in the first week in April 

 the Peziza appeared, a few days only before its occurrence in its 

 native habitat. We think it not improbable that Sderotium 

 stipitatum might be treated so as to induce it to perfect its 

 fructification; and we have some hope of procuring a further 

 supply of specimens from India, to enable us to institute the 

 necessaiy experiments. The specimens hitherto received, besides 

 being only three in number, were destined by their sender, Dr. 

 Waring, for the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society. Plate 

 IX., Fig. 4, represents a thin section of the white inner substance 

 of the Sderotium, taken from near the circumference. The 

 threads are of very irregular shape, and hardly similar in any 

 two sections ; but their general nature may be seen from the 

 figure just referred to. 



2. Pacliyma Cocos, Fries. The variety of names which this 

 remarkable substance has received renders a list of its synonyms 

 not undesirable; we therefore subjoin one which, with the need- 

 ful references, will, we believe, be found nearly, if not quite, 

 complete. 



Padiyma Cocos, Fries, SijSt. Mycologicum, vol. ii. (1822), p. 242 Synonyms of 

 vol. iii. (1829) p. 223 ; Elenchus Fungorum, vol. ii. p. 39. Oken, 

 Lehrbuch d. Naturgeschichte, 2ter Theil, Botanik, 2te Abtheil. 

 Ite Halfte (1825), p. 93. Tulasne, Fungi hypogcei, p. 197. 



P. solidum, Oken, Lehrluch d. N aturgeschiclite (1. c.), p. 93. 



P. Pinetorum, Horaninow, in Tatarinov, Catl. Medicamcntorum 

 Sinensium (Petrop. 1856, 8vo), pp. 2-23. 



1 " On a new Species of Peziza, being the full development of Sderotium 

 roseum, Kneiff." By F. Currey, Esq., F.L.S. (op. cit. vol. i. p. 147). 



