the Genus Cordyceps. 25 
medicinal virtues, are to be found in the following works, 
under the titles given — 
Hia Tsao Tom Tchom ; Reaumur, Mem. de l’Acad. des 
Sc., 1726, p. 302, tab. xvi ; Rees, Cycl. vol. xvii. 
Hia Tsao Tong T chong ; Duhalde, China, vol. iii, p. 490. 
Hea Tsaon Taong Chung ; Westwood, Ann. Nat. Hist, 
vol. viii, p. 217. 
Chinese Plant Worm\ Cooke, ‘Vegetable Wasps and 
Plant Worms,’ p. 200. 
The following account is given by Berkeley, following the 
diagnosis of the species : — ‘ This species is a celebrated drug 
in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, but from its rarity only used 
by the Emperor’s physician ; in its properties it resembles 
Ginseng, being a strengthener and restorative, but does 
not like that cause hemorrhage. Father Perennin states 
that he was raised from a state of extreme weakness by 
the use of this medicine, which was administered dressed 
in the body of a duck. The Chinese name refers to the 
notion that it is a herb in summer and a worm in winter. It 
is sold in little bundles tied up with silk.’ 
33. Cordyceps entomorrhiza, (Dickson) Fries, Summa Veg. 
Scand. p. 381 (1846) (name only) ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5012. 
Sphaeria ento 7 norrhiza> Dickson, Fasc. Plant. Crypt. 
Brit., Fasc. i, p. 22, tab. iii, fig. 3 (1785). 
Tormbia entomorrhiza , Tub, Carp. vol. iii, p. 14, pi. i, 
figs. 12-J8 (figures excellent). 
Xylaria gracilis , Grev., Scot. Crypt. FI. p. 86, pi. 86 
(1823-1828). 
Cordyceps gracilis , Dur. & Mont., Flor. Alg. i, p. 449 ; 
figure in atlas, pi. xxv, fig. ii ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5011. 
Cordyceps menesteridis , Mull. & Berk., Gard. Chron., 
Deer. 21, 1878, fig. 130. 
The fungus grows on different hosts. Gray says that the 
larva figured by Dickson may probably belong to the Sil- 
phidae, while the specimen figured in his own work, pi. iii. 
fig. 10, he supposes, judging from the caterpillar, to belong 
