the Genus Cor dy ceps. 33 
multiseptate, 80-90 x 1 jx, component cells 4 \i long, readily 
separating when mature. 
On a dead caterpillar. Myrong, Khasia (Hooker and 
Thompson). 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
This differs from all known species in the caespitose falcate 
heads, which are naked at the base on the convex side 
(Berk., 1 . c.). 
The head is falcate in all the specimens present in the 
Herbarium, and if constant, will, as stated by Berkeley, furnish 
a distinctive feature. The remark that the heads are naked 
at the base on the convex side, only means in reality that the 
mature perithecia have fallen away. No mention is made of 
the colour when fresh, and as the specimens were preserved in 
spirit, this cannot now be ascertained. 
48 . Cordyeeps Ravenelii, Berk. & Curtis, Journ. Linn. 
Soc., vol. i, p. 159, tab. i (1857), (the figures on the plate are 
not numbered) ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5035 ; Ellis and Everh., 
N. Amer. Pyrenom. p. 62 ; (Ellis, 1 . c., says that a good figure 
of this species is given in vol. i, p. 91 of Journ. N. Y. Microscop. 
Soc.). 
Torrubia elongata , Riley, is according to Farlow and 
Seymour — Host-Index, p. 181 — a synonym of the present 
species. On the other hand, Giard, 1 . c., p. 47, considers 
Riley’s species to be identical with C. Melolonthae , Tul. 
Exsicc . — Ravenel, Fung. Carol. Exs., Fasc. iv, no. 28. 
Stem 3-10 cm. long, 1-5-3 mm - thick, almost straight or 
variously flexuous or crooked, simple or very rarely forked, 
minutely velvety at first, then almost or quite glabrous, 
especially upwards, subcylindrical, yellowish-brown, longi- 
tudinally wrinkled when dry; head cylindrical, narrowing 
into the stem at the base, apex more or less acute, 2-5 mm. 
broad at the widest part, rough with the large, blackish, 
broadly ovate, perfectly superficial perithecia ; asci elongated, 
narrowly cylindrical, slightly contracted below the capitate 
apex, tapering below into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores 
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