Subject ASC000357k
The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.
v.2 (1843), Tab. VIII (1843)
Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library
BHL Page 783967
Keywords
caterpillar fungus Yartsa Gunbu Dōng chóng xià cǎo Sphaeria Sinensis Ophiocordyceps sinensis biology fungus parasite of larvae of ghost moths produces a fruiting body valued as a herbal remedy fungi mycology Ascomycota Sordariomycetes Hypocreales aphrodisiac Traditional Tibetan medicine Traditional Chinese medicine botanical drawings Latin Spharia Sinensis H.S.Taylori spharia microscopy