105] ATKINSON—HYPOCREA ALUTACEA 403 
says that the spores are cylindrical and two-celled, the upper globose, 
the lower oblong, and in a footnote says that from the texture and 
fructification the species would belong rather to Hypocrea. It grew 
among needles of Pinus sylvestris. WuUNTER*S retords C. alutacea 
Qvuéter from the Jura mountains and says the spores are needle- 
like, with many segments, and 40-50 u long! Evidently this is not 
QuéLer’s species. CURREY" says it is a Cordyceps with the fructi- 
fication of Hypocrea. 
The TuLasNEs'S in their classical studies forty years ago pointed 
ut the resemblance in the habit of this plant to that of certain species 
of Hypomyces, as H.. lateritius Fr., and H. lactifluorum Schw., which 
are parasitic on species of Lactarius, the H. /actifluorum deforming 
white species of Lactarius and giving them a bright red color. With 
this interpretation of the dual nature of the fungus they were led to 
believe that HT ypocrea alutacea was in a similar way parasitic on a 
certain species of the simple clavarias, viz., Clavaria ligula Schaef. 
Their interpretation of the dual nature of the fungus has since been 
generally conceded to be correct. SACCARDO,?© WINTER,’’ and 
other systematists have followed them in considering it as parasitic 
oeither Clavaria li gula or Spathularia, on which latter host BROOME 
"ported it according to Saccarpo.® It has been reported by Dax 
North America also on an undetermined species of Spathularia, 
Where he says, “Apparently parasitic on Spathularia” and reference 
“made to Peck, Rept. N. Y. State Mus. 26:84. 1874, where the 
Plant is merely listed as growing on fallen leaves. WINTER (I. ¢-) 
He mh Synopsis of the fructification of the compound Sphaeriae in the Hookerian 
sg 858 
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18 : its 
OS a to Saccarpo /. c. See also Exxis, N. A. P.- 89. 1892, — 
nts of the city 
* Day, Davip i se 
: F., d naturalized pla 
A catalogue of the native an The reference 
d its vicinity. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. 4: 161. 1882. 
OW’s Host Index (see FARLow & SEYMOUR, A provisional host — 
oS ag States 175. 1891) to H. alutacea as parasitic on Sat 
found os 3 me, was made from Day’s catalogue, and he adds that 
pathularia. : 
