or crowdeii above, elliptical, continuous, smoky-brown, about 5x2^ ji. 

 On a decaying elm log, Manhattan, Kansas fKellennan & Swin- 

 gle). 



G. sporidia uniseptate, hrown. 



H. cuWspora, Ell. & Hoi. Journ. Mycol. I, p. 4. 



Stroma obconic-tuberculifbrm, subplicate below, about 1 cm. high, 

 lemon-yellow within and without, surface minutely punctate with the 

 black ostiola. Perithecia peripherical, globose, about 250 fi diam , con- 

 tents black. Asci cylindrical, containing eight culncal or oblong-trun- 

 cate, dark-olive or brownish-black, 2-nucleate, 4-7 .\ 3-4 /i sporidia, 

 some of which are obscurely uniseptate. 



On a decaying log, Iowa. 



H. aporidia ^-sejjtate, yellowish or hrown. 

 H. chlorina, Cke. Grev. Til, ]i. 49. 



Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 342. 



Flattened, discoid, elliptical or elongated, 1-2 mm. diam., clay- 

 colored (bright-yellow' within). Perithecia immersed, brown, ostiola 

 blackish, punctiform. Asci clavate, spore-bearing part about 75 x 15 /a 

 surrounded with abundant filiform pai'aphyses. Sporidia biseriate, 

 nari'o^v-elliptical, endochrome three times divided, yellowish (becom- 

 ing brown ?), 20-25 x 8-9 /i. On bark of hickory, Darien, Ga. The 

 stroma is of about the same color as the bark, flatter than in the pro- 

 ceeding species, but of about the same color. 



I. Stroma erect. 



H. Petersii, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 13. 



" At first sight this looks like an Agaric invested with some Hy- 

 po7)iyces, but the fructification is exactly that of a llypocrea. Stem 

 irregular, dilated upwards, about an inch high. Head orbicular, 

 irregular, rufous. Perithecia both on the under and upper sides. 

 Sjioridia globose in linear asci." 



Found in Alabama, by Hon. J. M. Peters. 



There can be but little doubt that the stipe and agariciform head 

 ai-e a real Agaric on which the Ifyjjocvfa is parasitic. 



H. alutacea (Pers.) 



Sphsria atulacea, Pers. Comment. Clavar. p. 12. 

 Sphtzrta clavata. Sow. Brit. Fungi tab. II, fig. 159. 

 Cordiceps alulacfus. Lk. Hndhk. de Gewach.=ie III, p. 374. 

 Hypocrea alutacea, Tul. Set. Carp. I, p. 62. Winter Die Pilze II. p. 142. 

 Hx.sicc. Rab. F. E. 132, 246. 



