English: Title: The American entomologist

Identifier: americanentomolo03metc Year: 1868 (1860s) Authors: Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS Subjects: Entomology Publisher: New York : Max Jaegerhuber Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 139 rubia elongata. On April 7, 1879, after ex- amining the very large herbarium and very large collection of Prof. Farlow, of Cam- bridge, Mass., and the works of Tulasne, Cordn, and Lowesky, Dr. Hagen wrote us that we were quite justified in giving it a new name ; but later researches have developed the fact, as Dr. Hagen recently wrote us, that the species was described and figured in the Journal of the Proceed- ings of the Linnean Society for 1857 (vol. i> P- 159)) by Berkeley, under the name of Cordyceps ravenelii, and as this was doubt- less the first description of it connected with a name, the fungus must hereafter be known as Torrubia ravenelii—all subse- quent names being synonyms. Mr. Berkeley gives, in the paper already alluded to, the following species of ento- mogenous species of Cordyceps which were at that time known : C. tnilitaris and cutomorrhiza are com- mon to Europe and the United States. C. myrf?iecop/iila is found in England and Italy. C. gracilis in Scotland and Algiers. C. sinensis in China, where it is used as a drug. C. gunni and taylori in Australia. C. sinclairii and robertsii in New Zea- land. C. racemosa and falcata at Myrong in the Khazia mountains of Bengal. C. anneniaca in South Carolina. C. sobolifera and sphecocephala in the West Indies. C. larvata in Cayenne. This list shows that the entomogenous SphcEricB predominate in warm or equable climates. He then describes four other species from South Carolina, and we quote his description of C. ravenelii in full, with the simple remark that Ancylonycha is the old Dejeanian genus for Lachnosterna. Cordyceps ravenelii. Berk, and Curtis ; fusca, stipite elongate fiexuoso sulcato compresso glab- riusculo, capitulo C3'lindrico attenuate longiore ; peritheciis superficialibus. Curt. No. 3080, Rav. No. 1272. On larvse of Ancylonycha Dejean, or Rhizotro- gus Latreille, buried one or two inches in the earth. Spring and summer. South Carolina' Rev. M. A. Curtis and H. W. Ravenel, Esq. Brown. Stem 2 inches or more high, flexuous, compressed or grooved, at first minutely to- mentose, at length smooth ; head 3^ inch long, c)'lindrical, but sliglitly attenuated at either end. Perithecia free, ovate; asci very long; sporidia (Fig. 55, a) very long, filiform, breaking up into joints 15(55 of an inch long. This species has very much the habit of C. sinensis, and Mr. Berkeley remarks that none of the entomogenous species de- scribed by himself from South Carolina " are completely isolated from the rest, for Cordyceps palustris resembles C. sobolifera; C stylopJwra and acicularis are connected [Fig. 55.]

Text Appearing After Image: Fructification of White Grub Fungus (after Berkeley). through C ravenelii with C. sinensis ; and C. armeniaca calls to mind the apricot-col- ored C luyrmecophila. Besides these spe- cies I have received C. niilitaris from South Carolina, where C entomorrhiza also oc- curs under a very fine form." The following references to this fungus are enumerated here as additional to those in purely scientific publications, and be- cause they are liable to be overlooked by mycologists: Kirtland, J. P. {Prairie Farmer, July 29, 1865, p. 71), briefly refers to it, in an article on Pear

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