. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . Z-^. menmm becoming plane, darkchocolate-brown, then black. Common on fallen tree-trunks in autumn. size.) 76 GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. SUB-CLASS II.—PYRENOMYCETES. In the Pyrenomycetes the asci are borne in flask-shaped bodies,perithccia, of carbonaceous or membranaceous consistency, sometimesconfluent with the stroma, with an opening at the apex throughwhich the spores escape. GENUS XLVIII.—CORDYCEPS Fr. Stroma erect, fleshy, clavate or capitate; perithecia immersed ;spores linear
. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . Z-^. menmm becoming plane, darkchocolate-brown, then black. Common on fallen tree-trunks in autumn. size.) 76 GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. SUB-CLASS II.—PYRENOMYCETES. In the Pyrenomycetes the asci are borne in flask-shaped bodies,perithccia, of carbonaceous or membranaceous consistency, sometimesconfluent with the stroma, with an opening at the apex throughwhich the spores escape. GENUS XLVIII.—CORDYCEPS Fr. Stroma erect, fleshy, clavate or capitate; perithecia immersed ;spores linear, multi-septate, separating at the septa. There are seven British species, two ofwhich are represented bymodels. 200. Cordyceps militaris Fr.—At first sub-caespitose, white,and mealy; then club-shapedand crimson, with the headminutely tuberculose and thestalk equal. This plant grows upon thepupae of moths in the ground.
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