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On moist, putrid logs, growing singly from the larva of 
some coleopterous insect. On Hexapoda , sp. indet. (Host- 
Index, p. 182). 
Northampton Swamp, S. Carolina, May. (Ravenel, no. 
718). 
Type specimen, in Herb. Kew., examined. 
The perithecia are cylindrical, narrowed at the base when 
mature, and in reality quite superficial, but owing to being 
densely crowded and the mouths somewhat obtuse, they 
appear, when examined with a pocket-lens, to be almost 
completely immersed in the substance of the stroma. The 
spores are at first filled with highly refractive oil-globules, 
and afterwards become multiseptate. I have not seen the 
spores break up into their component cells, and Berkeley did 
not intend to convey this idea, as interpreted by Saccardo 
and Ellis, but meant that the contents became broken up by 
septa into small parts. Iodine does not colour the asci blue. 
3 . Cordyeeps insignis, Cke. and Rav., Grev. vol. 12, p. 38 
(1883) ; Cooke, Veg. Wasps and Plant Worms, p. 170, pi. 1, 
fig. 3 ; Sacc., Syll. Suppl. v. ix, no. 4002 ; Ellis and Everh., 
N. Amer. Pyren. p. 63. 
Stem 3-4 cm. long, f cm. thick, equal, pallid, sulcate 
(obviously due to shrinkage during drying), very minutely 
velvety at the base ; head broadly ovate, livid purple (when 
dry), 1*5 and 1 cm., very slightly scabrid from the mouths of 
the narrowly ovate, completely immersed perithecia ; asci 
narrowly cylindrical, slightly constricted below the capitate 
apex, narrowed below into a slender, stem-like base, 8-spored ; 
spores arranged in a parallel fascicle slightly twisted on its 
axis, hyaline, filiform, multiseptate, wavy when free, 170-180 
x i*5 ju, component cells 6-7 ju, long, separating readily at 
maturity. 
On larvae buried in the ground. S. Carolina (Ravenel, no. 
3251). On Hexapoda , sp. indet. (Host-Index, p. 182). 
Ravenel’s label accompanying the specimen is as follows : 
‘ I found but a single specimen of this and have divided the 
