JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
Vol. II. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, MAY, 1886. No. 5. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN HYPO- 
CREACEAE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 
OF THE SPECIES. 
PY .1. B. EEEIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
(Continiied from page 81.) 
B. MYCOGEN..B. 
13. CoRDYCEPS OPHiOGLOssoiDES (Elir.) I’arasitic On E/^ap/iomi/ces 
granidatus and JS. muricatiis. Massachusetts (Farlow), New Jersey (Ellis), 
Pennsylvania (Everhart). 
Stromata solitary, rarely csespiiose, simple, or very rarely branched, 
flexuous, subcompressed, carnose, yellow within, 8—12 cm. high, 5—8 
mi Him. thick; head oblong, obtuse, or attenuated above, often hollow, 
roughened by the slightly projecting, densely crowded, perithecia, dark- 
rufous, about 2 cm. long and G—8 millim. thick; stem olivaceous, becom¬ 
ing black, sending out, from its base, yellow Hbrous rootlets, which em¬ 
brace the matrix and penetrate the soil for 2 or 3 inches around; asci 
cylindrical, 250—300 x 7—9 /^, 8-spored; sporidia crowded, Aliform, 
150—180 X 7—9 /^-, multiseptate, at length breaking up into subellipsoid, 
yellowish-hyaline joints, 3—4 x 2—3 ; paraphyses very slender. 
14. CoRDYCEPS CAPiTATA (llolmsk.) Link. Hand-bk. Ill, p. 347. 
Pers. Myc. Eur., tab. 10, Ag. 1—4. Ikrrasitic on Scleroderma, Carolina 
(Ravenel), Fungi Car. Exsicc., V, No. 48. 
Stromata csespiLose, or solitary, simple, 3—8 cm. high ; club, or 
head, ovoid-sphseroid, roughened by the slightly prominent, ovoid, 
densely crowded perithecia, liver-color or reddish-yellow, about 1 cm. 
thick; stipe equal, glabrous, citron* color, or yellow, at length librose- 
strigose and yellowish-black, 3—1 millim. thick ; asci cylindrical, very 
long, 15 a- thick ; sporidia Aliform, very long, at length breaking up into 
fusoid-elongated, or subbacillary joints, greenish-yellow and 2-5—40 
X 5—G i>-. 
