IO 
Mas see. — A Revision of 
Cordyceps , Fries, Syst. Myc. ii, p. 323 (1823). Used as 
the name of a tribe of the Pyrenomycetes, including species 
at present included in the genera Cordyceps and Xylaria . — 
Sacc., Syll. vol. ii, p. 566 (excluding the species parasitic on 
fungi, which constitute the genus Cordylia , suggested by 
Tulasne — Sel. Fung. Carp, iii, p. 20). 
. Torrubia , Lev. The first mention of this name appears to 
be in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, p. 43, vol. xx (1853), where 
Tulasne refers to it in a footnote as follows : 6 Torrubia , Lev. 
(msc. in Herb. Mus. Paris).’ The genus is first defined by 
Tulasne — Sel. Fung. Carp, iii, p. 4 (1863). 
* Perithecia entirely or partly immersed. 
f Spores septate. 
1. Cordyceps Barnesii, Thwaites, Fungi of Ceylon, no. 977, 
in Linn. Soc. Journ., Bot., vol. xiv, p. 110 (1875); Sacc., 
Syll. ii, no. 5052. (Plate II, Figs. 19-26.) 
Stem cylindrical or slightly thickened at the base, minutely 
velvety, brown, 3-5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, often flexuous or 
angularly crooked, simple or rarely forked ; head 1-2 cm. 
long, 3-4 mm. thick, simple, apex acute, smooth, dotted with 
the mouths of the densely crowded perithecia when seen 
under a pocket-lens, 2-3 mm. at the acute apex usually but 
not always sterile ; asci cylindrical, apex capitate, base 
narrowed into a short pedicel, 8-spored ; spores arranged in 
a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, straight or 
slightly curved when free, 3-septate, 120x2 /u, readily 
breaking up into the four component cells which are slightly 
rounded at the ends, 30 j a long. 
Conidial stage. Several of the specimens have the head 
covered with conidial-bearing branches instead of perithecia ; 
these branches are erumpent, like the perithecia, and towards 
the base of the head are slender, very irregularly branched, 
about *5 mm. thick, white, each branchlet bearing at its apex 
a globose or piriform head, about 1-1-5 mm. across, which is 
densely covered with minute, hyaline conidia, 2x4 diameter. 
The branches become shorter and less branched higher up the 
