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Berkeley, in the Fungi of Cuba, spelled the name (carelessly, no
doubt) Cordyceps sphecophila, and under this erroneous spelling it
is compiled in Saccardo.
It is one of the few foreign species well represented in the museums
of Europe, there being eight specimens at Kew and several in the
British Museum. There have been two collections distributed from
Europe, Saxony and Austria, but I know of no specimen from Britain
or the United States, although it probably does occur in our Southern
States.
The Cordyceps always springs from the thorax of the host. In
each of the specimens from Mr. Ritchie there is a single club from
each host, though several specimens in Europe bear two clubs each.
Cordyceps australis, as illustrated by Moeller from Brazil, is undoubtedly
the same species, and Cordyceps myrmecophila, distributed
from Italy by Cesati, appears to be the same, although
smaller and growing on ants.
ISARIA BARBERI. FROM A. H. RITCHIE, GOVERNMENT
ENTOMOLOGIST, OF JAMAICA. We have received a specimen
(Fig. 747), which appears to be the sterile stroma of an undeveloped
Cordyceps. It is stated that Giard, in Comp. Rendus. Soc. de Biol.
Paris, 1894, p. 823, gives an account, under
the name Isaria Barberi. of a parasite on
the caterpillar of Diatraea saccharalis, the
"moth-borer" of the West Indies. The
borer attacks the sugar cane and does much
. damage. Massee received from John R.
Bovell some material that he said was a
Cordyceps and called it Cordyceps Barberi, on the theory that it was
the Cordyceps form of Isaria Barberi. The material now at Kew
from Mr. Bovell is only sterile strands such as Mr. Ritchie sends.
Massee published a figure under the name Cordyceps Barberi, which
has no possible resemblance to the material now at Kew, but represents
a (probably imaginary) Cordyceps. Where he got the idea I do
not know, certainly not from the material now preserved at Kew
from Mr. Bovell. There is no evidence that these sterile strands
called Isaria Barberi, Giard, develop into a Cordyceps, nor that there
occurs a Cordyceps on this borer. Of course, that is on the grounds
that the published figure of the "Cordyceps" is not evidence. Nor
have these strands any Isaria spores, but the name Isaria Barberi
that has been applied to them will be convenient to designate them
until more is learned about them.
RARE SPECIES OF FUNGI RECEIVED FROM
CORRESPONDENTS.
TREMELLODENDRON CUXEATUM, FROM X. L. T.
NELSON, FLORIDA (Fig. 748). Pileus erect, tapering to the base
(2-3 cm. high), cut into a few cruciate segments. Surface pale, smooth.
Hymenium unilateral, pale yellow (Honey yellow of Ridgway),
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