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rubia elongata. On April 7, 1879, after ex- 

 amining the very large herbarium and very 

 large collection of Prof. Farlow, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and the works of Tulasne, 

 Cordn, and Lowesky, Dr. Hagen wrote 

 us that we were quite justified in giving 

 it a new name ; but later researches have 

 developed the fact, as Dr. Hagen recently 

 wrote us, that the species was described 

 and figured in the Journal of the Proceed- 

 ings of the Linnean Society for 1857 (vol. 

 i> P- 159)) by Berkeley, under the name of 

 Cordyceps ravenelii, and as this was doubt- 

 less the first description of it connected 

 with a name, the fungus must hereafter be 

 known as Torrubia ravenelii — all subse- 

 quent names being synonyms. 



Mr. Berkeley gives, in the paper already 

 alluded to, the following species of ento- 

 mogenous species of Cordyceps which were 

 at that time known : 



C. tnilitaris and cutomorrhiza are com- 

 mon to Europe and the United 

 States. 



C. myrf?iecop/iila is found in England and 

 Italy. 



C. gracilis in Scotland and Algiers. 



C. sinensis in China, where it is used as 

 a drug. 



C. gunni and taylori in Australia. 



C. sinclairii and robertsii in New Zea- 

 land. 



C. racemosa and falcata at Myrong in 

 the Khazia mountains of Bengal. 



C. anneniaca in South Carolina. 



C. sobolifera and sphecocephala in the 

 West Indies. 



C. larvata in Cayenne. 



This list shows that the entomogenous 

 SphcEricB predominate in warm or equable 

 climates. He then describes four other 

 species from South Carolina, and we quote 

 his description of C. ravenelii in full, with 

 the simple remark that Ancylonycha is the 

 old Dejeanian genus for Lachnosterna. 



Cordyceps ravenelii. Berk, and Curtis ; fusca, 

 stipite elongate fiexuoso sulcato compresso glab- 

 riusculo, capitulo C3'lindrico attenuate longiore ; 

 peritheciis superficialibus. Curt. No. 3080, Rav. 

 No. 1272. 



On larvse of Ancylonycha Dejean, or Rhizotro- 

 gus Latreille, buried one or two inches in the 

 earth. Spring and summer. South Carolina' 

 Rev. M. A. Curtis and H. W. Ravenel, Esq. 



Brown. Stem 2 inches or more high, flexuous, 

 compressed or grooved, at first minutely to- 

 mentose, at length smooth ; head 3^ inch long, 

 c)'lindrical, but sliglitly attenuated at either end. 

 Perithecia free, ovate; asci very long; sporidia 

 (Fig. 55, a) very long, filiform, breaking up into 

 joints 15(55 of an inch long. 



This species has very much the habit of 

 C. sinensis, and Mr. Berkeley remarks that 

 none of the entomogenous species de- 

 scribed by himself from South Carolina 

 " are completely isolated from the rest, for 

 Cordyceps palustris resembles C. sobolifera; 

 C stylopJwra and acicularis are connected 



[Fig. 55.] 



Fructification of White Grub Fungus (after Berkeley). 



through C ravenelii with C. sinensis ; and 

 C. armeniaca calls to mind the apricot-col- 

 ored C luyrmecophila. Besides these spe- 

 cies I have received C. niilitaris from South 

 Carolina, where C entomorrhiza also oc- 

 curs under a very fine form." 



The following references to this fungus 

 are enumerated here as additional to those 

 in purely scientific publications, and be- 

 cause they are liable to be overlooked by 

 mycologists: 



Kirtland, J. P. {Prairie Farmer, July 29, 1865, 

 p. 71), briefly refers to it, in an article on Pear 



