the Genus Cordyceps. 31 
According to Giard the ordinary habitat of this species is on 
the caterpillars of Bombyces belonging to the genus Gastro- 
pacha . Hcis also occurred on the perfect form of the cockchafer 
{Melolontha vulgaris ) according to Roumeguere, Rev. Mycol. 
vi, p. 150 (1884). 
Distrih. — Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Nor- 
way, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Portugal (Henriquez) ; United 
States, South Carolina, Curtis, no. 451 ; Alabama, Peters, 
no. 524 5 ; Mt. Eliza, Ceylon (Thwaites, no. 341). 
45. Cordyceps typhulaeformis, Berk. & Cooke, Grev. 
vol. xii, p. 78 (1883); Sacc., Syll. Suppk, vol. ix, no. 4003. 
(Plate II, Fig. 14.) 
Gregarious, and springing from a dense felt of yellowish 
mycelium which partly covers the chrysalis on which the 
fungi are growing, and extends for some distance up the 
slender stems, which are about 1 cm. long ; head cylindrical, 
obtuse, simple or rarely with 1-2 branchlets, about 1 cm. long 
and 2 mm. thick, flesh-colour ; perithecia ovate, mouth 
narrowed, free, crowded ; asci cylindrical, slightly capitate, 
base narrowed into a short, slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores 
hyaline, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, filiform, 
very slender, rather flexuous when free, multiseptate, 65-70 
x -8 fx, component cells about 3 fi long, not observed to become 
detached from each other. 
On a chrysalis buried among dead leaves. Java (Kurz). 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
Remarkable for the gregarious habit, 8 plants springing 
from a weft of mycelium, which spreads over the body of 
the host. The spores are very slender. 
46. Cordyceps acicularis, Ravenel, Journ Linn. Soc. vol. i, 
p. 159, pi. i (1857); Sacc., Syll. vol. ii, no. 5037 ; Ellis and 
Everh., N. Amer. Pyrenom. p. 64. (Plate II, Figs. 27, 28.) 
Cordyceps Carolinensis , Berk. & Rav. in Rav. Fung. 
Carol., no. 29. 
Exsicc. — Ravenel, Fung. Carol, no. 29. 
