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Mycologia 



io. Cordyceps sphecocephala (Klotzsch) Massee, Ann. Bot. 



9: 13. 1895 



Sphaeria sphecocephala Klotzsch ; Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2 : 206. 

 i843- 



Torrubia sphecocephala Tul. Fung. Carp. 3 : 18. 1865. 

 Cordyceps sphccophila Berk. & Curt. ; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10 : 

 376. 1868. 



Stromata 2-5 cm. high, consisting of a slender, sterile stem and 

 a fertile head; stem pale-yellow, fibrous, often slightly twisted, 

 0.5-1 mm. thick ; head enlarged, clavate, 5-8 mm. in length and 

 1.5-2 mm. in thickness, roughened by the slightly protruding necks 

 of the perithecia ; perithecia immersed, scattered, prominent ; asci 

 very long, cylindric ; spores nearly as long as the ascus, breaking 

 into fusoid segments 9-10 mic. long {pi. 54, f. 3-4). 



Springing from the bodies of wasps. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution : West Indies. 



Illustrations : Tul. Fung. Carp. 3 : pi. 1, f. 5-9. 

 Specimens examined: Cuba (specimen given by Mel. T. 

 Cook) ; also collected by N. L. Br it ton and Percy Wilson. 



II. Cordyceps clavulata Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 



4: 188. 1832 



Cordyceps pistillariaeformis Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



III. 7: 451. 1861. 



Torrubia pistillariaeformis Cooke, Handbk. Brit. Fungi 771. 

 1871. 



Torrubia clavulata Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28 : 70. 

 1876. 



Sclerotia formed in the bodies of dead scale-insects ; stromata 

 slender, clavate, at first sterile, at maturity with an enlarged, cla- 

 vate, fertile head and a slender, sterile stem, the whole 3-4 mm. 

 high, 3-8 springing from a single sclerotium ; stem slender, 1-2 

 mm. long, grayish or cinereous ; head thicker, darker in color and 

 strongly roughened by the protruding necks of the perithecia ; asci 

 clavate, broader near the middle, 80-100 X 8-10 mic. ; spores 

 much elongate, subfiliform, broader near the base and tapering 

 toward either end, 7-8-septate about 50-80 mic. long, 3 mic. thick 

 at the broadest point, hyaline (pi. 53, f. 1-5). 



On dead scale-insects on the branches of various kinds of trees 

 and shrubs. 



