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[Voi.. II. 
C. SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWX. 
15. CoRDYCEPS HERCULEA, Scliw. Syii., N. Am., 1153. On the 
ground, among fragments of decaying wood. Salem, K. C. (Schweinitz). 
Head large (12 millim. thick), ovate-clavate, obtuse, decurrent on 
the attenuate-elongated stem, alutaceous (leather color), yellow within, 
stipe also yellow; perithecia rather small, concolorous. Height of the 
whole fungus, about H inches (36 millim.) 
In (3urtis’ Catalogue, pp. 138 and 139, two other species are mention¬ 
ed, but not described: 
16. CoRDYCEPS GRYLLOTALP^, M. A. C. Oil buiied Sand moles. 
17. CORDYCEPS iSARioiDES, M. A. C. Oil dead moths. 
Gen. Ill, Epichloe, Fries.— Stroma effused, mostly amplexicaul; 
sporidia filiform. 
18. Epichloe typhina (Pers.) 
Stroma pale, thin, surrounding the sheaths and included culms of 
living grasses (Phleum prateiise, Dactylis glomerata and Carex, fide 
Peck), extending longitudinally for 2—5 cm., and bearing, in the early 
stage of growth, small (4—5x3/^), ovoid, hyaline coiiidia(Sphacelia typh- 
iiia, Sacc.), finally covered with a layer of semi-immersed, soft, carnose- 
membranaceous, yellow perithecia, with somevi^hat prominent ostiola. 
Asci cylindrical, 150—230 x 7—9 slightly narrowed above, with the 
apex truncate, and capped with a subhemispherical, hyaline crest; 
sporidia 8 in an ascus, filiform, yellowish, multinucleate (becoming 
multiseptate) and nearly as long as the asci. 
The species is common in Europe, and appears also to be widely dif¬ 
fused in this country. It is reported from Carolina to Pennsylvania and 
Iowa, and from Northern New York and Canada. 
Gen. IV, Hypocrea, Fries.— Perithecia immersed in a pulvinate, 
or effused, subsuperficial stroma. Sacc. Syll. II, p. 581. 
A. Sti'oma vertically elongated. 
19. Hypocrea Petersii, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 13. 
“ Agariciformis; stipite rugoso ; peritheciis periphericis ; ascis linea- 
ribus; sporidiis globosis. 
At first sight, this looks like an Agaric invested with some Hypom- 
yces, but the fructification is exactly that of a Hypocrea. Stem irregu¬ 
lar, dilated upwards, about an inch high ; head orbicular, irregular, 
rufous ; perithecia both on the under and upper sides; sporidia globose 
in linear asci.” Found in Alabama, by Hon. J. M. Peters. 
20. Hy'pocrea alutacea (Pers^) 
On bark of a decaying (maple ?) limb, lying on tlie ground. New- 
field, N. J. (Stroma V) about 2 cm. high, clavate, leather-color. Only 
two specimens were found, and those were immature, so that the fructi- 
