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flossy silk. These were quite easily detached and removed to 
a slide, and proved to be most interesting objects under the 
microscope. 
_ _Cordyceps capitata Fr., a very rare species, was found by Mr. 
Wager and Mr. Peck in a meadow on the border of a wood in 
Yedmandale. This pyrenomycete is parasitic on Llaphomyces 
granulatus Fr., a subterranean species. Search was afterwards 
made for the host, but without success, as it was difficult to 
locate the exact spot where the Cordyceps had been collected. 
This species was found by Bolton in 1786 in Ramsden Wood, 
Cordyceps eapitata. # and life size. 
Halifax. Sowerby (1803) says: ‘I have only seen one specimen 
of this fungus, for which I am obliged to the Rev. Mr. Francis, 
whose lady found it at Holt, in Norfolk.’ 
It is the largest Cordyceps the members present had seen. 
Cooke’s description is ‘ Fleshy, head ovato-globose, bay- 
brown; stem yellow, then blackish; sporidia colourless, 
jointed, the joints rod-shaped or cylindrical, joints of sporidia 
(.0003 in.) .0076 mm. long.’ Fries says, ‘ Often tufted ; stem 
1-4 in. high, 2-4 lines thick, equal, smooth, lemon-coloured, 
at length fibroso-strigose and blackish. The colour of the 
head borders on yellow, red-brown, and black’ (Cooke’s Hand- 
book Brit. Fungi, page 771). 
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