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CORDYCEPS CANADENSIS.- The type specimen from Dearness is 
only the common Cordyceps capitata as correctly referred by leaver. 
Ellis' name was only based on the mistake in Saccardo where ^ne _ 
snores of Cordyceps capitata are recorded (in error) as ‘'25-40 mic. 
long. Hence when Ellis found thorn "10-20 11 he concluded at once *a 
new species". In this connection Cordyceps capitata is only^Known 
on species of Elaphomyces. The record "on Scleroderma (?)" is 
mistake, for the host on which this record was based while not the 
usual species is an Elaphomyces and not a Scleroderma* Another mis¬ 
take is my reference (Myc. Notes p.S09 ; Pig. 860) of a Japanese col¬ 
lection to Cordyceps capitata var. Canadensis, supposing it to be the 
same as Ellis had named, and which he described as elliptical. As 
soon as I saw Ellis' type I realized there was no connection between 
them. This will necessitate the re-naming of the Japanese plant from 
Mr. tlmemura, which I have now labeled Cordyceps Japonica. Tfe re¬ 
produce the figuro (1621) in our plate. 
Cordyceps Langloisii. The typo from Langlois on the larva 
of a mason wasp is of the same size, stature and appearance as 
Cordyceps crmeniaca which Berkeley named from scanty material on 
debris, "supposed to contain insect remains", from South Carolina, 
and I have no doubt it is the same species. 
CORDYCEPS CRYLLOTALPAE (Pig. 1622).-There are several speci¬ 
mens of this on "ground puppies" or "sand moles" as Curtis calls them. 
They were sent to the Garden by E. C. Purzlow, Houma, La. All are 
immature, but I have no doubt arc young Cordyceps. Curtis lists 
the name but nothing further and I did not find at Kow that he had 
sent any specimen to Berkeley. This is evidently the same that 
Hennings named Cordyceps ^oaquiensis from Brazil, and his figure of 
the host which he calls "einer grosser Coleoptera? Larve" looks 
more like a "ground puppy" or some kind of a "puppy" than it does 
like an insect. The Gryllotalpa belongs to the Orthoptera and is 
givon in entomological works as the mole cricket. 
CORDYCEPS STYLOPHORA.- A specimen of this rare species is 
at the New York Garden, sent by G. H, Hicks, Michigan.. Otherwise 
it is only known from Ravenel's collection. 
CORDYCEPS PROM. REV. RICK. BRAZIL 
. J. RICK, BRAZIL (Pig. 1623, 1624 
g with sterile apices, attached to 
same 
CORDYCEPS KLENEI PROM REV 
and 1625).- Clubs about a cm. long 
the host by a branching stem. Color (dried) orange rod, _ .... 
Cordyceps militaris. Porithecia deeply imbedded with long cstioles, 
piercing the crust and slightly protruding. T/o give in Pig. 1625 
an enlargement of the surface. Spores hyaline, filiform. He saw no 
sign of breaking into secondary spores. 
T/o received a nice specimen of this from Rev. Rick but the 
clubs were very fragile and broke away when we tried to mount it 
to photograph. Hence wo present also Patouillard's drawing (Pig. 
1624) which shows the habits of the 'plant better then our photograph. 
The host, teste Rick, is the larva of a Holous. The sterile apices 
of the clubs which arc 
on the specimen sent to 
a feature of ‘die species are mu.cn snorter 
me th.n on those Father Rick sent 
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