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the Germs Cordyceps. 
Torrubia caespitosa , Tulasne, Carpol. iii, p. n (1865). 
Cordyceps caespitosa , Sacc., Syll., no. 5043. 
Yellowish, from f-i in. high ; stems cylindrical, slender, 
simple or forked, sometimes confluent, \ inch or more high, 
divided above into numerous more or less cylindrical, either 
simply or slightly lobed heads, which are sometimes disposed 
into a flabelliform mass, clothed with innumerable oblong 
conidia 0 °f an inch long. 
The specimens are unfortunately destitute of perithecia. 
The pale yellowish tint, inclining to lemon colour, seems 
characteristic, and forbids, in the first instance, their union 
with Cordyceps sobolifera , a West Indian species, which also 
occurs on Orthopterous larvae. In that species, however, 
the normal form seems to be simply clavate, as in Cordyceps 
entomorrhiza , and the divisions are merely proliferous. There 
does not seem, in the present case, to be any indication of 
such a primitive form, and, in consequence, I suppose the 
head to be essentially divided, as in Cordyceps Taylori. 
I have therefore no hesitation in considering it distinct, more 
especially as the West Indian species is a purely tropical form, 
and does not ascend as far as the Southern United States, 
which produce some New Zealand species, but is represented 
by an allied form still normally simple on the larvae of 
cockchafers. 
Northern Island [N^w Zealand]; on the larvae of some 
Orthopterous insect, amongst loose gravelly soil, in the 
garden of Archdeacon Williams, Tauranga, Poverty Bay. 
The above is Berkeley’s original account of the species, 
which unfortunately I am unable to supplement, the species 
not being present in the Herbarium in a mature condition. 
Tulasne’s species, Torrubia caespitosa , was received from the 
same locality as the above species, with which it is obviously 
synonymous. 
54 . Cordyceps Melolonthae, Sacc., Mich, i, p. 320 (1879); 
Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5044 ; Ellis and Everh., N. Amer. Pyrenom, 
p. 66. 
