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4. Cordycp:ps armeniaca, B. & Jouni. Linn., Soc., 1, p. lo9. 
Tab. 1, lig. 1. 
Apricot-colored, stipe iiexiious, rather sliort, 8 millim. long; head 
subg’lobose, rather pale, roughened by the perithecia; asci elongated, 
snbinllated at the apex ; sporidia linear (?), immature. 
On dung of birds, probably Lorn the remains of insects eaten, 
('arolina (Ravenel). 
XX. Stroma furcate, or ramose. 
(JoRDYCEPs palustris, Bei'k. ik> Br. Linn. Journ., 1. c., tig. o. 
Carnose-subeiose, dark, dirty tlesh-colored, stipe cylindrical, bitid, 
oi trilid above, 25—50 millim. long, including the clavate subcylindrical 
head, which is roughened by the projecting ostiola; sporidia filiform, 
separating into small (U /^-) globose joints. On dead larvae in damp 
ground. Carolina (Ravenel). 
XXX. Stroma simple, head elongated. 
0. CoRDYCEPS STYLOPHORA, Berk. & Bi*. -Linn. Journ., 1. c., tig. 8. 
Yellow; stipe slender, 12—18 millim. long, 4 millim. thick; head 
much elongated, with the surface nearly smooth ; perithecia immersed. 
On dead larvae. Carolina (Ravenel). 
The specimen in Ravenehs Fungi, Car., Exsicc., V, Xo. 49, has the 
slender stem a little over 2 cm. long, the ascigerous part occupying a 
medial position, cylindrical, and sliglitly enlarged, about 8 millim. long 
by 1 millim. thick, with a sterile, slender beak, about i cm. long, being a 
prolongation of the stipe, but the specimen is apparently immature, 
lieing without asci or sporidia. 
7. CoRDYCpms ceavulata, Schw. 8yn., X. Am., 1155. On dead scale 
insects (Lecanium), on living branches of Fraxinus and Prinus. X. Y. 
(Peck). On brandies of Clethra, Xewfield. X. J. 
From specimens collected by Prof. Peck, and distributed in de 
ThuemeiPs Mycotheca Universalis, Xo. 1258, we have drawn the follow¬ 
ing description : Stroma simple, clavate, about 8x4 millim., consisting 
of a liglit cinereous stipe, surmounted by a black ovate, or elliptical 
head, about 1 millim. high and 4 millim thick, roughened by the rounded 
prominent perithecia, which are of coarse cellular structure, and only 
imperfectly perforated above; asci subsessile, broadest in the middle, 
contracted above, and rounded at the apex. 80—95 x 8—10 :>■; sporidia 111- 
iform, multiseptate, 40 -70 x U—2 !'■, joints 8—5 !>■ long. 
In Sacc. Sylloge, It, p. 568, tiie species represented by the above 
specimens is made a synonym of O. pistillariceformis, B. & Br., but if 
the two species are the same, the name of Schweinitz has priority, and it 
is (]uile certain that the specimens in M. P.. 1258. are the genuine 
<'. doriihito . 
