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the Genus Cordyceps . 
vol. xxii, p. 262, t. xlv, figs, i, 2 ; Cooke, Veget. Wasps and 
Plant-worms, p. 143, fig. 30 (a small specimen) ; Sacc., SylL 
vol. ii, no. 5030. 
Solitary, springing from the cervical region of the cater- 
pillar on which it is parasitic ; very variable in size, but always 
large ; stem 6-30 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick, sub-cylindrical, 
almost even, simple or rarely forked, one branch usually being 
much smaller than the other, whitish, the greater portion 
buried in the ground and covered, more or less, with minute 
particles of sand ; ascigerous portion cylindrical or lanceolate, 
apex acute or obtuse, 4-8 cm. long, somewhat thicker than 
the stem ; even, perithecia narrowly ovate, completely im- 
mersed, the crowded mouths projecting as minute points 
above the surface of the club ; asci cylindric-clavate, slightly 
constricted just below the capitate apex, 8-spored ; spores 
arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, 
upper portion with a very slight tendency to become clavate, 
at first multiguttulate, then multiseptate, somewhat wavy when 
free, 155-165 x 2-5 — 3 /x 5 component cells 4-5 /x long, readily 
separating at maturity. 
On caterpillars of some Cossus or Hepialis. 
Franklin Village, near Lancaster; Tasmania (Gunn, no. 1800) ; 
Melbourne, Victoria (F. Reader) ; Blue Mountain Range, 
New South Wales (Rev. D. Wood) ; Port Philip, Australia 
(C. French). 
Type specimens in Herb. Berk., Kew. 
Growing from the neck of a caterpillar buried deeply in 
sandy ground. Stem with caterpillar five to eighteen inches 
long, rarely branched, flexuous, rugged below, cylindrical, 
white, solid, collecting particles of sand by means of a few 
downy threads. (Gunn in litt.) 
24 . Cordyceps flavella, Berk. & Curt., Fungi Cubenses, 
no. 748, in Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. x, p. 375 (1869) ; Sacc., 
Syll. vol. ii, no. 5022. (Plate II, Figs. 7-10.) 
Stems gregarious, 3-5 springing from nearly the same 
point, 24-30 mm. long, about 1 mm. thick, equal, straight or 
