MYXOMYCETES. G3 



y. serotina. 



Sporangia clavate or pyriform, carmine-brown, or bright- 

 chestnut. Mass of spores and elaters clean yellow, or 

 ochrey-yellow. Stem rigid, erect. 



I. Simplex. Stem simple. 



II. Botrytis. Stems connate, fasciculate, crowned 

 witb numerous sporangia. 



(Figs. 203, 204, 225, 226.) 



Lijcopcrdon bombacinum, Batscb. El., p. 153 (1783). 



Stemonitis botrytis, Pers., in (.imel. Sys., 1468 (1791). 



Trichia botrytis, Pers. Disp., p. 9 (1797); Ic. Pict., t. 12, f. 1, 2. 



Trichia botrytis, /3 minor, Pers. Disp., 54 (1797). 



Trichia serotina, Scbrad. Journ., t. 3, f. 1 (1799) ; Eng. EL, 

 v., p. 310 ; Cooke Hdbk, No. 1181. 



Sphcerocarpus fragiliSj Sow., t. 279 (1803). 



Trichia notata, El. Dan., 1680 (1823). 



Trichia badia, Fr. Stirp. Femsj., 83 (1825). 



Trichia pyriformis, Fr. S. M., iii., 184 (1829) ; Curr. Micr. 

 Journ., iii., t. 2,f. 9, 10; Cooke Hdbk., No. 1178. 



Trichia Lorinseriana, Corda Ic., i., f. 228 D (1837) ; Curr. Micr. 

 Journ., v., p. 129; Cooke Hdbk., No. 1180. 



Trichia pi/riformis, /5 serotina, Rtfki. in Fckl. Symb. 2 N. 75 

 (1873). 



Craterimn floriforme, Scbw. Am., No. 2307. 



Alwisia bombarda, B. & Br., Ceylon Fungi, No. 784, t. ii., f. 6 

 (1873). 



77. Trichia varia. Pers. 



Sporangia diversely developed, eitber with a stem, or sessile ; 

 elaters cylindrical, very thin walled, -0042 mm. diam., with the 

 ends usually not distinctly swollen, consequently running through 

 to the end, usually a little bent on one side, two to three times the 

 diameter of the elater in length ; spirals two, turning to tbe 

 right, separated by intervening spaces three to four times as broad, 

 on the convex side the bent elaters very much notched prominently; 

 spores -01--014 mm., delicately warted, Rtfki. Jfon., p. 251. 



On stumps. (Figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 218, 237.) 



r. nigxipes. 



Sporangia variable in shape, yellow-ochre, dirty-ochre, or 



olive, with a short or long distinct blackish stem. 

 r. sessilis. 



Sporangia turbinate, sometimes roundish, wide at the base 

 standing on a substratum, stem discoid, flattened, short, 



scarcely evident. 

 v. genuina. 



Sporangia completely sessile, globose, irregularly flattened, 

 often with kidney-shaped sporangia mixed together. 



