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Massee. — A Revision of 
glabrous upwards ; head subglobose or broadly ovate, up to 
i cm. long, smooth and even; perithecia completely immersed, 
elongated, narrowly cylindric-ovate ; asci slender, slightly 
contracted below the capitate apex, 8-spored ; spores arranged 
in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, multiseptate, 1 50- 1 60 x 1 /ot, 
not seen free. 
£ On larva of Elateridaei 
Type in Herb. Kew. ; comm. Prof. MacOwan. ‘Klerksdorp, 
S. Afr. Republ., E. G. Alston.’ 
29 . Cordyceps clavulata, Ellis & Everh., N. Amer. Pyre- 
nomyc. p. 61, pi. xv, figs, n-13 (1892)- 
Sphaeria clavulata , Schw., Syn. N. Amer. Fungi, in 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. iv, n. ser. (1834). 
Cordyceps pistillariaeformis , Berk. & Br. no. 969, in Ann. 
Nat. Hist. ser. iii, vol. 7, p. 13, pi. xvi, fig. 22 (1861); Sacc., 
Syll. ii, no. 5019. 
Torrubia pistillariaeformis , Cooke, Hdbk. no. 2323 (1871). 
Ellis, 1 c., says, c The Syn.’ Torrubia cinerea, Ell. ‘ in Sacc. 
Syll. rests on some error.’ The error originated as follows. 
Ellis sent a specimen to Cooke, labelled as follows, c Torrubia 
cinerea , n. s. — on bark louse, on Clethra alnifolia. Newfield, 
N. Y., Oct. 1875, J. B. Ellis. 5 Cooke observing that the 
specimens were identical with Sphaeria clavulata , Schw., and 
Cordyceps pistillariaeformis, B. & Br., sent a note to that effect 
to Saccardo for the Syllcge. 
Exsicc. — Roumeg., Fung. Sel. Exs. no. 4782 (as Cordiceps 
pistillariaeformis , B. & Br.) ; Tlilim,, Myc. Univ. no. 1258 
(as Torrubia clavulata , Peck). 
On dead scale insects (. Lecanium ), on living branches of 
Fraxinus and Prinos , N. Y. (Peck). On branches of Clethra , 
Newfield, N. Y., on Carpinus , Canada (Dearness) (Ellis & 
Everh., 1 . c.). 
Berkeley’s British specimens, now in Kew Herbarium, are 
growing on some scale-insect on Wych-elm ( Ulmus montana ), 
and agree in every detail with the American species. 
Distrib. — United States ; Canada ; Great Britain. 
