AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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PYRENOMYCETEJE Fr. 
Perithecia fleshy, coriaceous, carbonaceous, or membranaceous, 
wholly enclosing the hymenium, usually pierced at the apex. 
Family I. HYFOCREACE1E. DeNot. 
Simple or composite ; perithecia rather fleshy or waxy, often 
reddish, pale, or bright coloured, never carbonaceous ; stroma, 
when present, soft, between fleshy and waxy, rarely byssoid. 
Sub-Family 1. Hypocreoideae. 
Genus 1. CORDYCEPS. Fries. 
Stroma stipitate, erect, growing on insects or fungi, clavate ; 
perithecia immersed in the stroma, or semi-immersed, or nearly 
free ; asci 8 spored ; sporidia filiform, soon breaking up into 
joints, hyaline. 
1486. Cordyceps Gurniii. Berk. Dec. Fung. 200. FI. Tasm. 
ii., 278. Sacc. Syll. 5080. 
Entomogenous, fleshy, capitulum cylindrical, yellow, becoming 
blackish above ; stem elongated, white ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 
filiform, breaking into cylindrical joints, 5 y long, hyaline. 
On larviB. Victoria. Tasmania. N.S. Wales. Snowy River. 
(Pig. 184.) 
1487. Cordyceps Hawkesii. Gray Not. t. 2 ,f 10-12. Sacc. 
Syll. 4013. Cooke Grev. xix., 76. 
Stroma cylindrical, attenuated and truncate at the apex, punc- 
tate with the ostiola of the immersed perithecia (entire length 12- 
18 c.m.) ; stem flexuous, unequal (5-10 c.m. long), simple, some- 
times forked, with 3 or 4 clubs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia filiform, 
breaking up into joints. 
On larval. Tasmania. 
1488. Cordyceps entomorrhiza. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scan. 381. 
Sacc. Syll. 5012. 
Fleshy, capitulum subglobose, brown ; stem thin, very long ; 
asci cylindrical ; sporidia filiform, breaking up into cylindrical 
joints, 7-8 y long, hyaline. 
On insects. Victoria. 
var. menesteridis. Berk. <$• Mull. Gard. Chron. 1878, fig. 230. 
Capitulum elliptic, reddish, at first powdery ; sporidia as above. 
On larvffi. Victoria. 
Genus 2. EPICHLOE. Fries. 
Stroma sessile, effused, at first bearing conidia, encircling the 
culms of grasses, usually brightly coloured, somewhat fleshy ; 
perithecia immersed, ostiola scarcely prominent ; asci 8 spored ; 
sporidia filiform, continuous or multisept ate, hyaline. 
