Oct., 1887.] 
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2. Poronia Oedipus, Mont. Sy 11- Plant Crypt., p. 209 ; Nits. Pyr. 
Germ., p. 20. On dung. Alabama (Peters), Texas (C. Wright). 
Stroma simple or branched, erect, dark brown, becoming glabrous, 
striate when dry, clavate-thickened at the base and attenuated above to 
the apex, which is expanded into a cup-shaped disk, black externally, 
white within and black-punctate from the projecting ostiola, as in the 
preceeding species ; asci subcylindrical, very briefly pedicellate, 8-spored, 
120 x 24 /*, pseudopa:aphyses very long, stout, filiform, septate ; sporidia 
uniseriate or subbiseriate, ovate, straight, dark, surrounded by a thick, 
hyaline coat at first, 28—30 x 16 Specimens collected in Cuba by Wright 
and sent us by Prof. Farlow have the stems subconnate at base, about 
three cm. high and two millim. thick at base, the terminal disk about 
three millim. broad. 
ADDITIONS TO HYPO CUE ACEiE. 
BY J. B. KLLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
Cordyceps Sphingum, Tul.—Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 12. (Isaria Sphin- 
gum, Schw., Syn. Car., 1298 [conidia.]) On a dend larva in its cocoon, 
attached to a rotten limb lying on the ground in the swamp. Newfield, 
N. J., Aug. 7, 1887. Stromata numerous, about thirty in the single speci¬ 
men found, thread-like, about five cm. high and rather less than one 
millim. thick, cinereous, nearly smooth and glabrous or slightly white- 
farinose-tomentose. bulbous at the base and more or less undulate and 
bent, especially below and within the cocoon, which they seem to have 
penetrated with some difficulty; perithecia superficial, cylindric-conic, 
200—225/* high, 125—150 !>■ thick, rounded above, chestnut color; ostio- 
lum not prominent; asci linear-lanceolate, 150—200 x 6—7 /* when young 
with a depressed, conical tip about four !>■ wide; sporidia filiform, nucle¬ 
ate, about as long as the asci and about two /* wide, probably finally sepa¬ 
rating into joints or segments. The larva from which the fungus grows 
is about three cm. long and one half cm. thick, and the stipes or stromata 
arise from all the segments of the body. Some of the siromata were 
sparingly branched above. 
[In Tulasne’s figure the fungus is represented as growing from the 
perfect insect, and the perithecia are said to be of a pale red color 
(“palMe rubentia”). From these and other considerations, I was at 
first inclined to consider this as a new species, but my colleague, Mr. 
Everhart, having carefully examined the specimen, assured me that it 
could not be specifically distinct, and I am now convinced that he is 
right.—J. B. E.] 
Cordyceps iierculea, Schw —A fine specimen of this species has 
been sent from Ohio by Prof. A. P. Morgan. When fresh it was about 
three inches high and half an inch thick, growing from some dead larva 
of considerable size. The fertile head, which occupies about an inch of 
the upper part of the stem, leaving a short, rather obtuse, sterile tip, is 
of a light yellow color and roughened by the somewhat prominent, 
