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the Genus Cordyceps. 
30. Cordyceps armeniaca, Berk. & Curt., Journ. Linn. 
Soc., vol. i, p. [ 58, tab. i (1 857) ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5016 ; Ellis 
and Everh., N. Amer. Pyrenom. p. 60. (Plate II, Fig. 18.) 
Stem 5-9 mm. high, up to 1 mm. thick, equal, glabrous, 
often flexuous and sometimes twisted, pale orange with a tinge 
of pink ; ascigerous portion subglobose, 2-3 mm. diameter, 
apricot colour, rough with the slightly projecting mouths 
of the perithecia ; asci elongated, narrowly cylindric-clavate, 
capitate, tapering below into a long, slender pedicel, 8-spored ; 
spores arranged in a parallel fascicle, slightly curved or 
flexuous when free, filiform, ends narrowed, hyaline ; multi- 
guttulate, then multiseptate, 80-85 x 1 /x, breaking up into its 
component cells, which are about 3 /x long. 
Apparently on the excrement of birds. Society Hill, South 
Carolina (Ravenel, 3774) ; Rangoon (Capt. E. S. Berkeley) ; 
Ceylon, on coleopterous insect (Thwaites). 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
The specimens are solitary or 2-3 springing from nearly the 
same point. Perithecia ovate, densely crowded ; ostiolum 
narrowed and somewhat elongated when moist, more or 
less contracted when dry, so that the head is only slightly 
rough. 
31. Cordyceps caloeeroides, Berk. & Curt., Fungi 
Cubenses, no. 749, in Linn. Soc. Journ., Bot., vol. x, p. 375 
(1869) ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5050. (Plate II, Figs. 11-13.) 
Stem 8-9 cm. high, dividing about half way up into two 
equal branches, smooth, even, shining, reddish-brown, about 
i| mm. thick below the bifurcation, branches thinner, cylin- 
drical, more or less flexuous, base curved ; each branch is 
terminated by an elongated, narrowly cylindrical, acute head 
coloured like the stem, and minutely rough with the projecting 
mouths of the crowded perithecia, 3-5 cm. long ; asci narrowly 
cylindrical, apex slightly capitate, base narrowed into a long 
slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores arranged in a parallel fascicle 
in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, slightly curved when free, 75-80 
x 1 fx, multiseptate, component cells 4-5 /x long. 
