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Mas see. —A Revision of 
On the ground. Cuba (Wright, no. 309). 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
No mention is made of the habitat, and the base of the 
stem is quite naked. The perithecia are perfectly superficial, 
but closely crowded, the narrowed mouths giving the super- 
ficial granular appearance to the head when seen under 
a pocket-lens. The structures of the head and walls of the 
perithecia are truly parenchymatous. 
32 . Cordyceps sinensis, (Berk.) Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5051. 
Sphaeria sinensis , Berk., Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. ii, p. 
207, tab. viii, fig. 1 (1843). (Plate II, Pig. \ 7.) 
Solitary ; stem 2-5-5 cm - 2-3 mm - thick, almost cylin- 
drical, or sometimes becoming thicker downwards, straight 
or flexuous, more or less downy at the base, longitudinally 
wrinkled when dry ; head cylindrical, apex pointed and 
usually — but not always — sterile, 1-2-5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. 
thick, surface minutely granular with the slightly projecting, 
obtuse mouths of the ovate, slightly distant perithecia ; asci 
cylindrical, very slightly narrowed just below the capitate 
apex, base narrowed into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores 
arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, 
slightly flexuous when free, multiseptate, 85-90x1-5/;, com- 
ponent cells about 4/x long, not observed to separate. 
Growing from the head of a caterpillar, which Gray — 
Notices of Insects which are known to form the bases of 
Fungoid Parasites, p. 12 — considers as belonging to the Noc- 
tnidae , and probably to the genus Gortyna. 
China. Also stated to occur in Japan and Thibet. 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
In one of the specimens figured by Berkeley the head 
is shown to be compressed and inclined to branch at the 
apex. The flattening appears, from examination of the 
specimen, to be due to shrinkage, being immature and soft 
when collected. 
Accounts mostly of historical interest relating to this species, 
which is highly prized in China on account of its supposed 
