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arranged in a parallel fascicle, slightly curved when free, 
hyaline, linear, multiseptate, 125-135x2 /x, component cells 
4-5 M lo ng. 
According to Ellis and Everhart, 1 . c., this fungus grows on 
larvae of the ‘June beetle’ [Lachno sterna fused) and other 
larvae (?) buried in the ground. On Anchylonyca , sp. indet. 
(Host-Index, p. 181). 
South Carolina (Ravenel, nos. 1372 and 3080); Texas 
(Wright, no. 3155) ; California (Harkness, no. 1220). There 
is also a specimen in the Herbarium from Gerard, but without 
locality, although certainly from the United States. The 
accompanying label is as follows: ‘Called the ‘‘white grub 
fungus” in the Western States where found.’ 
Type in Herb. Kew., examined. 
Extremely variable as regards size, some specimens being 
tall and robust, others extremely slender, and superficially 
indistinguishable from C. acicularis , Rav., the only point of 
difference furnished by the Kew material being that the 
spores in the last named are thicker and the component cells 
slightly shorter than in C. Ravenelii , and it is quite probable 
that even this character might disappear as such, when a suf- 
ficient number of species from different localities come to be 
examined and compared. The Californian specimens from 
Harkness — as intimated by Cooke in a note on the label — 
appears somewhat intermediate between the two species as 
here understood. Finally, it is only doing justice to the keen 
perception of Ravenel to state that he suspected more than 
an affinity between C. acicularis and C. Ravenelii , as proved 
by the remark on the label of no. 1372 [ — C. Ravenelii \ , 
which reads thus : ‘ Sphaeria n. sp., spring and summer. On 
larvae buried in the earth 1-2 inches deep. Looks like 
a variety of 1276 ’ [ = C. acicularis ]. 
49 . Cordyceps sphingum, Sacc., Mich, i, p. 321 (1879); 
Sacc., Sylk ii, no. 5033 ; Cooke, Veget. Wasps and Plant- 
Worms, p, 127, figs. 27 and 28 ; Ellis and Everh., N. Amer. 
Pyrenom. p. 64, pi. xv. 
