Seaver: The Hypocreales of North America 213 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : South Carolina ; also in Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 and Australia. 



Illustrations: Dicks. PI. Crypt. Brit. pi. /. 3; Gard. Chron. 

 II. 10: 791, /. 130; Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: pi. 1, f. 12-14; Grev. 

 Scot. Crypt. Fl. pi. 86. 



8. Cordyceps herculea (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 577. 1883. 



Sphaeria herculea Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 188. 1832. 



Stromata large, attaining a height of 5-7 cm. ; stem yellowish or 

 tan-colored; head enlarged and more than 1 cm. thick, with the 

 fertile portion often interrupted, leaving bare patches and in 

 the specimens examined terminated by a short, obtuse apex; fer- 

 tile portion roughened by the slightly prominent necks of the peri- 

 thecia; asci cylindric, as long as 200-225 mic. ; spores filiform, 

 nearly as long as the ascus, many-septate, separating into joints 

 6-8 mic. {pi. 53, f. 6). 



On larvae (white grubs). 



Type locality : Salem, North Carolina. 



Distribution : Connecticut to Ohio and North Carolina. 



Specimens examined: Ohio, Morgan; Georgetown, D. C, 

 Billings. 



9. Cordyceps stylophora Berk. & Br. ; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 



1: 158. 1857 



Stromata solitary, dull-brownish, consisting of a sterile stem 

 and fertile head, with a long sterile apiculus, the entire plant 2-3 

 cm. high ; stem straight or flexuous, more or less velvety, lon- 

 gitudinally wrinkled when dry ; fertile head slightly roughened by 

 the protruding perithecia ; sterile apiculus 1 cm. or more long, 

 asci cylindric or slightly constricted below the capitate apex ; 

 spores arranged in a fascicle, filiform, curved when free, many- 

 septate, 125-135 X 1 mic; segments 3.5 mic. long (pi. 54, f. 1). 



On larvae in rotten logs. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Distribution : Michigan and South Carolina. 



Illustrations : Jour. Linn. Soc. 1 : pi. 1; Ann. Bot. 9 : pi. 2, 

 f. 40-42. 



Exsiccati : Rav. Fungi Car. 5 : 49. 



