154. Mr. Bowman ona new Plant of the Gastromycous Order, $c. 
from the sporangium ; while fig. f, g, h, and i, exhibit dif- 
ferent individuals in their expanded state. The filaments are 
more or less erected or horizontal; but some seem always to 
retain their original downward direction, like the lower branches 
of the larch or some of the palm tribe. 
That portion of the stipes which had been surrounded by 
the sporangium is very slender, and tapers towards the pileus ; 
while its lower half is suddenly swelled out to a very dispro- 
. portionate thickness, and dilated into a thin membranous and 
glutinous base, by which it is attached to the wood whereon it 
grows. This kind of base, common to many of these minute 
parasites, being destitute of fibres or vascular structure, seems 
to indicate that they require no further nourishment after the 
sporules are once expanded into the gelatinous mass which 
is their earliest visible form, or that they derive any further 
supply from the disengaged gases which float in the dank atmo- 
sphere in which they live. I first found the Enerthenema in 
October, and again in December last, on decaying branches of 
oak deprived of their bark, and lying on the ground in the 
damp and shady parts of Erddig wood, near Wrexham, Den- 
bighshire ; a spot not less attractive to the botanist than to the 
lover of P pistweenque: woodland adi and enbia accessible 
