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C. superflciklis, (Pk.) 



Torrubia superjicialis, Pk. 28tli Rep. N. Y. State Mu.s. p. 70. 

 Cordyceps superjicialis, Sacc. Syll, 5036, Cke. Syn. 36. 



" Slender, about one inch high, smooth, brown, the sterile apex 

 gradually tapering to a point. Perithecia crowded, superficial, sub- 

 globose, blackish-brown, sometimes collapsed, with a small, papilliform 

 ostiolum. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia long, slender, filiform. Re- 

 lated to and intermediate between C RaveneUi and C. acicularis. 

 The stem of the plant is about equal in length to the club, or peri- 

 thecia-bearing part. The perithecia are more loosely placed at the 

 extremities of the club, thereby giving it a subfusiform shape. The 

 sporidia are more slender than those of C. acicularis, but the plant 

 itself is less elongated and slender."' We have seen no specimens, and 

 copy the above from the report cited. 



Under hemlock trees, on buried larvee, Northville, N. Y. (Peck), 



C. sobolifera, (Berk.) 



SphcEria sobolifera. Berk. Hook. I^ond. Journ. Bot. II, p. 207. 

 Cordyceps sobolifera, Sacc. Syll. 5021, Cke. Syn. 23, 



Head 5—8 mm. long, ov^ate-oblong or tongue-shaped, dotted with 

 the minute ostiola of the buried perithecia, and a little thicker than 

 the stipe, which is stout, round, rigid, erect, simple or with rudi- 

 mentary branches, 15-20 mm. or more in height. Asci cylindrical. 

 Sporidia separating into linear joints about eight times as long as 

 broad. 



On the larvae of some lamellicorn insects, in the West Indies, and 

 in Mexico. 



Some of the Mexican specc, were much branched; instead of the 

 fertile head, presenting a contracted panicle, or brush-like tuft of 

 deformed branches. The anterior portion of the affected larvse is 

 enveloped in a white mold. 



B. Mycogenous. 



C. ophioglossoides, (Ehr.) 



Sphcsria ophioglossoides, Ehr. Beitrag, III, p. 88. 

 Clavaria parasitica^ Willd. Fl. Ber. Prod. p. 405. 

 Clavaria radicosa. Bull. Champ. I, p. 195. 

 SpfuEtia radicosa, DC. Fl. Franc. II, p. 283. 

 Cordioeps ophioglossoides, I^k. Hndbk. Ill, p. 347. 

 Torrubia ophioglossoides, Tul. Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 20. 

 Cordyceps ophioglossoides, Sacc. Syll. 5038, Cke. Syn. 48. 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 427.— id. F. Eur. 442.— Rehm. Asc. 471.— Thum. M. U. 569. 

 Sydow M. March, 280. 



Stromata solitary, rarely cespitose, simple or very rarely branched, 

 flexuous, subcompressed,carnose, yellow within, 8-12 cm. high, 5-8 mm. 

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