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the Genus Cor dy ceps. 
smooth, marked with minute depressions corresponding to 
the mouths of the immersed, scattered perithecia ; the apex 
of the head runs out into a slender, pointed, sterile, spine-like 
prolongation 1-1*5 cm. long ; asci cylindrical, very slightly 
narrowed below the slightly capitate apex, 8-spored ; spores 
arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, 
slightly curved when free, multiseptate, 125-135x1 /x, the 
component cells about 3-5 n long. 
On Hexapoda , sp. indet. (Host- Index, p. 182). On larvae 
buried in rotten logs. South Carolina (Ravenel, no. 1325). 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew., examined. 
A remarkable species, characterized by the long, slender, 
sterile apiculus, continuing beyond the apex of the fertile 
head ; or in other words, the fertile portion — head — occupies 
about the median third of the stem. This character appears 
to be constant, being present in each of the eight specimens 
sent by Ravenel to Berkeley, several being fertile and in 
a fine state of preservation. The specimens in Ravenel’s 
Exsicc. are poor and scanty. 
19 . Cordyceps gentilis, Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5020. 
Torrubia gentilis , Cesati, Myc. Borneo, in Mem. Acad. 
Neapol. p. 14 (1879). 
Growing on a wasp. 
Distrib. — Sarawak, Borneo (Beccari). 
20. Cordyceps Hawkesii, Gray. Notices insect bases of 
fungi, pi. v, figs. 10-12 (1858); Grev. vol. xix, p. 76 ; Sacc., 
Syll. Suppl. vol. ix, no. 4013. 
‘ The caterpillar may be that of a species of Pielus> or of 
some closely allied genus.’ 
Distrib. — Tasmania (Hawkes). 
21. Cordyceps Forquignoni, Quel., xvi Suppl. Champ. Jura 
et Vosges, p. 6, t. 21, fig. 18 ; Sacc., Syll. Suppl. ix, no 4007. 
On Musca rufa or Dasyphora pratorum . 
Distrib. — France. 
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