76 MYXOMYCETES. 



Reticularia miniata, Poir. Ency., viii., 22 (1808). 

 Reticularia punctata, Poir. Ency., viii., No. 21 (1808). 

 Reticularia rosea, Poir. Ency. viii., No. 4. 

 Lycogala miniata, Johnst. Fl. Berw. 



Lycogala epidendrum, Fr. S. M., iii., 80 ; Berk. Engl. FL, v. 307 ; 

 Cooke Hdbk., No. 1095. 



Lycogala ciffinis, B. & Br., Ceylon Fungi, No. 735. 



92. Lycogala flavo-fusca. Ehr. 



JEthalia rounded, large as a filbert or a good-sized pear ; surface 

 opaque, smooth, or indistinctly reticulated, greyish-umber ; mass 

 of spores with the capillitium greyish-umber ; spores very small, 

 delicately spinulose, -0033--0058 mm, &&m.Rtfki. Hon., p. 288. 



Diphtherium flavo-fuscum, Ehr. Syl., p. 27 (1818). 

 Reticularia jlavo-fusco, Fr. S. M.,iii., 88 (1829) ; B. & Br. Ann. 

 N. Hist., No. 591.* 



Reticularia testacea, Wallr. Fl. Germ., 209 (1833). 



[Lycogala parietinum, Fr. S. M., iii., 83, Ann. N. Hist., No. 

 381 ; Cooke Hdbk., 1096, is rejected by Rostafinski from the 

 Myxogastres, and referred by him to the genus Mycogala.'] 



Genus 41. CORNUVIA. R. 



Either with a simple sporangium or a vein-like plasmodiocarp, 

 splitting irregularly or with a deciduous lid ; capillitium of tubes 

 formed into a loose net, running out into numerous free ends, not 

 grown anywhere to the walls of the sporangium. Rtfki. Mon. } 289. 



(Fig. 189.) 



93. Cornuvia xnetallica. (B. fy Br.) 



Sporangia globose, flattened above, of a bright metallic lustre, 

 narrow base grown to the substratum ; threads of capillitium stout 

 *01-'024 mm. broad, knotted, running out in numerous free, blunt, 

 or sharp-pointed ends; spores '01 mm. diam., waited, Rtfki. Mon. 

 Sup p., 35. 



On decorticated sticks. 



Physarum metallicum, Berk. Mag. Zool. and Bot., No. 29, t. 3, 

 f. 8 ; Cooke Hdbk., No. 1139 ; Cooke Myx., pp. 16 ante. 



94. Cornuvia circumscissa. (Wall.} 



Either sporangia globose, flattened, splitting in a circumsessile 

 manner, with a deciduous lid, or plasmodiocarp vein-like, twisted 

 together, creeping, splitting along the seam or irregularly, sur- 

 face opaque chesnut-brown ; capilliliuin of thin-walled tubes 



