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Growing on a beetle— Staphylinus sp. 
Distrib. — Oropa, N. Italy. 
ft Spores continuous. 
52 . Cordyeeps isarioides, Curtis, MS. (Plate II, Figs. 36-39.) 
Gregarious, springing from a dense white mycelium which 
almost entirely covers the host ; stem 4-8 mm. high, about 
i*5 mm. thick, cylindrical, almost glabrous, even, ochraceous 
(when dry), sometimes slightly curved ; head 3-6 mm. long, 
cylindrical, obtuse, axial portion not thicker than the stem ; 
perithecia perfectly superficial, large, flask-shaped, mouth 
elongated, ochraceous, crowded, spreading on all sides at 
right angles to the axis 5 asci narrowly cylindrical, slightly 
capitate, base narrowed into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; 
spores cylindric-filiform, continuous, flexuous when free, 
hyaline, 135-135 x 1 *5 //, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the 
ascus. 
Growing from the remains of a moth. Owing to an un- 
fortunate mistake this species is represented growing on 
a chrysalis. Curtis, no. 6531. No locality given, but un- 
doubtedly from the United States. 
The type specimen is in Herb. Kew. 
The specimens, along with numerous other packets that 
had never been examined by Berkeley, were sent to Kew 
after his death. The present differs from other known species 
of Cordyeeps with free perithecia in the spores being con- 
tinuous, and as they escaped from the ascus readily when 
placed in water, it may be assumed that they were mature, 
and not likely to become multiseptate. In the filiform con- 
tinuous spores, the species agrees with the genus Claviceps , 
but differs in developing on an insect, and forming a sclero- 
tium in its anterior. 
Species imperfectly described. 
53 . Cordyeeps Sinclairi, Berk., Flora Nov. ZeL, p. 338 
(1855); Berk., Intr. Crypt. Bot., p. 73, fig. 17 ; Sacc., Syll. ii, 
no. 5054. 
