MYCOLOGIGAL NOTES 
G. G. LLOYD 
Page 915. 
CORDYGEPS ENT0M0RRHI2A (Pig* 1633).- In connection with 
Cordyceps flavclla we present a figure of Cordyceps entomorrhiza, the 
true species in its original sense as well figured by Dickson from 
England one hundred and twenty-five years ago. No specimen has been 
found in England since and the name has been universally misapplied 
there, as in this country, to Cordyceps gracilis, a very different 
plant. While never since found in England it occurs, not rarely 
apparently, on the continent. Tulasne found it near Paris (1860) 
and following the traditions in England, called it a new species, 
Cordyceps cinerea. Tulasne was not often tripped up like this. 
Rabenhorst distributed it from Leipsic as Cordyceps cinerea and Rohm 
also used this name. Durieu collected it in the Pyrenees and his 
specimen is at Paris correctly named, Cordyceps entomorrhiza. Quelet 
found it and of course also found it was a “new species". He called 
it Cordyceps Oarabi and shows it with a collar at the base of the 
head, but collars occur only on species of Cordyceps that quelet 
found* No one else ever saw them and his were probably only imagi¬ 
nation. It has never been found in the United States, notwithstanding 
Seaver reproduced Dickson's figure, and our records are all mistakes 
for Cordyceps gracilis. This species as far as known always occurs 
on the same larva, a species of Carabus. It is a dark reddish brown 
species with a long, tortuoso, slender stipe and a subglobose head, 
the ostioles protruding and quite prominent. Our figure (Pig.1633) 
is natural size, made at Paris, and the specimen on the right is 
the same as used by Tulasne in his illustration. 
CORDYCEPS BICEPHALA (Pig. 1634 enlarged).- As an indication 
of how much is known in "Science" wo present a figure of the only 
specimen in existence of this species which was named from Brazil 
seventy year's ago and known, to this day from this single specimen. 
The host never was known. It does not seem to have been illustrated 
by Moeller but lie would not have known it if he had found it. 
Massoe drew a picture with perfectly globose heads, but the more 
pictures Massec drew the less is known about things. He records the 
secondary spores as 3 mic. long and states "it closely resembles a 
Xylaria". It has about as much resemblance to a Xylaria as it has 
to a stick of candy. 
CORDYCEPS ARMENIACA (Pig. 1635).- Also to illustrate the 
scanty material on which our knowledge of Cordyceps species is some¬ 
times based, wo present (Pig. 1635) the type of this species, only 
known from this collection for sixty years. However, Ellis got a 
scanty collection which he called Cordyceps Langloisii, which I 
believe to bo the same thing. 
enlarged) 
graph but an 
ISARIA MYRMICIDAE PROM REV. J. RICK, BRAZIL (Pig. 1636. 
This is not a Cordyceps as would appear from the photo- 
Isaria which is only named for convenience in the 
museum. 
Pig. ■>^ 
1637 
Our 
is natural 
slender and black, 
"pip-shape", 2 X ° 
size 
figure enlarged sixfold tolls all to be told about it. 
The stem is about a centimeter long, 
white. Spores are 
as a species of 
o 
The head is cylindrical and 
Rev. Rick reports the host 
Myrmicae which the Century Dictionary gives as the rod, stinging ant 
of the tropics. 
