28 Mas see. — A Revision of 
entire at the base where it is 1*5-2 cm. thick, soon breaking 
up into 3-5 almost equal branches 5-9 cm. long and 1 cm. 
thick, very rugged and irregular, covered with a dense, 
reddish-brown tomentum, more or less buried in the ground 
and covered with particles of earth ; the apex of each branch 
is terminated by the ascigerous portion, which takes the form 
of a stag’s antler, branched, compressed, axils rounded, tips 
acute, 3-6 cm. high, with a spread of 3-4 cm., the broadest 
branches up to J cm. in width ; 1-3 such branches spring 
from the tip of each stem ; these branches are at first 
minutely velvety and wash-leather colour, becoming glabrous, 
greyish black, and rough with the superficial, broadly ovate, 
obtuse perithecia ; asci narrowly cylindric-clavate, slightly 
constricted below the capitate apex, narrowed below into 
a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores arranged in a parallel, 
slightly twisted fascicle, flexuous when free, hyaline, cylindric- 
filiform, ends attenuated, multiseptate, 150-175 x 2 /x, com- 
ponent cells about 3 /x long. 
Growing on some undetermined caterpillar, 12-15 cm * long, 
buried in black, alluvial soil. 
Distrib . — Banks of the Murrambidgee, Australia (Adams ; 
com. Taylor) ; Victoria (Sir F. von Mueller). 
The largest and finest species in the genus ; specimens in 
the Kew Herbarium show that the body of the caterpillar 
is completely filled with the sclerotium before the fungus 
bursts through to produce its fructification. The sclerotium 
is very compact, and when dry is as hard as wood, the hyphae 
forming it are very slender, rarely exceeding 3 /x in thickness, 
sparsely septate, and very densely interwoven. 
42 . Cordyeeps Henleyae. Mass., Ann. Bot. vol. viii, p. 119. 
(Plate I.) 
Solitary, springing from the cervical region of a large 
caterpillar, stroma or stem erect 18-20 cm. long and about 
| cm. thick, cylindrical, slightly narrowed at the base, pale 
brown, very minutely velvety under a lens, even when fresh, 
becoming longitudinally wrinkled when dry ; fertile branches 
