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stands, white a thin stalk bearing above a globular 
body, containing spores, grows out behind the head. 
Mr. Lloyd's name is given to the species, and it is 
thus described : — 
Cordyceps Lloydii, nov. sp. 
Stromatibus solitariis, pallide ochroleucis, ex articulo cervicali enatis ; 
capitulum perithecigerum depresso-globosum, altitudine circ. 0.7 mill., 
latitudine circ. 1.5 mill. ; stipite filiformi, infra medium autem incras- 
sata, longitudine 4.5 mill., crassitudine ad basim apicemque 0.25 mill., 
infra medium 0.5 mill. ; peritheciis stromate immersis protra&o-ovatis ; 
ascis longissimis, cylindraceis, apice glandiformibus, circiter 160 mmm. 
aparaphysatis ; sporidiis filiformibus, asci longitudine, hyalinis, imtna- 
turis. 
Snake-poison and its Remedies — The vast importance 
of the subjeft itself will be a sufficient excuse for this 
reference to a series of fafts with which, or with most of 
which, most people are familiarised. The fa6l that up 
to the present time no antidote is known capable of 
counteradting or neutralising the aftion of snake-poison, 
is sufficient to evoke interest, the more especially when 
it is borne in mind how terrible are the pangs of death 
caused by snake-poison, and how distressing and painful, 
the accompaniments of a partial recovery from the 
venom. The subje6l, moreover, is one of local interest ; 
for in British Guiana are to be found some of the most 
poisonous snakes, and, of these, some of the largest 
known. Let it be acknowledged, however, that there is an 
extreme paucity of cases where people have been bitten 
and have died from the bite, and that the instances are 
comparatively few and far between, in which, of certain 
