JOUUNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
LV'ol. II, 
SO 
8. CORDYCEPS MILITARIS (Linil.) 
Growing from dead pupse of moths buried just below the surface of 
the ground. Massachusetts (Farlow), Carolina (Uavenel), Pennsylvania 
(Everhart), IS'ew York (Peck), New Jersey (Ellis), California (llarkness). 
Wisconsin (Trelease) conidia. 
Stromata solitary, or sometimes several, issuing usually from the 
head, but sometimes from tlie articulations of the pupa, orange- 
colored, 4 — o cm. high, including the elongated - clavate head, 
which is ]—14 cm. long, and minutely tuberculose from the subcon¬ 
ic, emergent, orange-red perithecia. Asci slender, 115—loO x 4—5 /g 
containing eight slender filiform closely-jointed sporidia, nearly as long 
as the asci, and breaki?ig up into minute (4—f !>■), liyaline, subel¬ 
liptical segments. The conidial stage {Isaria farinosa, Fr.), is often 
met with, and resembles a small white plume of about the same height 
as the ascigerous stroma, and more or less branched above. 
9. CoRDYCEPS Ravenelii, B. & C. Joum. Einn., Soc. I, p. 159, 
tab. 1, fig. 4. Growing from dead larvae of the '' June-beetle ” {Lachnos- 
terna /wsca).and other laiwae (?). buried in the ground. Carolina fRave- 
nel), Iowa (liessey), Pennsylvania (Everhart). 
Stroma (stipe) elongated, flexuous, compressed and sulcate when dry, 
at first minutely tomentose, finally nearly glabrous, 5 inches or more high 
(see Riley, in American Entomologist, 1880), including the elongated-cylin¬ 
drical head, which is roughened l)v the superficial, black, subhemispher- 
ical, large (175—200v) perithecia. Asci linear-cylindrical, 150—200x7—9/'', 
slightly narrowed above and rounded at the apex, containing 8, filiform 
sporidia, nearly as long as the asci. about 2 /^ thick, and breaking up into 
jointsll—5 !'■ long. The specimens in Rav.. Fungi Car. Exsicc. IV. No. 28. 
are from8—10 cm. high, the yellowish-brown stem about 2 millim. thick, 
enlarged above, in tijat part occupied by the perithecia, to about 8 /^ thick : 
but the specimens are, no doubt, considerably smaller than when fresh. 
Descriptions and good drawings of this and the two preceding species 
are given in Journ. N. Y. Microscop.. Soc.. Vol. I. p. 91 et seq.. by Rev. 
J. L. Zabriskie. 
10. CORDYCEPS ACTCULAUis, Rav. IJiiri, Jouru., I. c.. fig. 2. [('. 
Caroliniensis. B. & Rav., in Rav. Fungi. Car. Exsicc. IV, No. 29). 
Fuscous; stipe slender, elongated; head cylindri<ail, with a long 
acuminate sterile apex ; perithecia superficial, free: asci very lotig. Ilex- 
uous; sporidia linear, breaking up into truncate segments about 5 . 'Gong. 
On larvie buried a little distaiuje below the surface of the ground, ('ar- 
olina ( Ravenel). 
We have copied the above description from Saccardo's S>’]loge II. 
p. 574. 
The specimens in Rav. Exsicc. liave a filiform flexuous stem, vellow- 
ish-brown below, citiereous and attenuated above. 8—10 cm. high, and 
(in onr t‘opy) cntii’ely sterile. 
