REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON TWO NEW GENERA OF FUNGI. 153 



in our Transactions, I have ascertained, as also in the present case, that they are pro- 

 duced within a vesicle, as in Hymenogaster vulgaris, Tulasne ; thus confirming at once 

 Mr. Bowman's curious genus, and M. Tulasne's observation of a similar anomaly in a 

 different group of fungi ; and in the two other genera they form little radiating fascicles. 

 The figures prepared by Corda for his sixth fasciculus, of which, before his ill-fated voyage, 

 he kindly sent me a copy, illustrate this admirably in the case of Beticularia maxima and 

 argentea. Tripotrichia, Corda, has at first sight some resemblance, but the spores have 

 short pedicels, which seems decisive as to their not being conglobated. The genus may 

 be characterized as follows : — 



Badhamia, n. g. 



Peridium simplex, extus nudum, vel rarissimesubtomentosumjapice demum lacerato apertum ; flocci laxe 

 reticulati, parietibus affixi, hie illic expansi in laminam saepe triangularem peridio similem ; sporae glo- 

 bosas vel subangulares, primum sacco communi inclusae, demum liberatae, conglobato-adnatae. 



Fungi minores, fragilissimi, muscos vel corticem colentes, Ph ysarum ut plurimum referentes. 



1. Badhamia hyalina=Physarum hyalmum, Auct. 



2. Badhamia utricularis= Physarum utriculare, Auct. 



3. Badhamia capsulifer ; peridiis sessilibus vel breviter membranaceo-pedicellatis ob- 



ovatis congestis e nigrocsesiis albidis, floccis candidis. 

 Sp/usrocarpus capsulifer, Bull. t. 470. fig. 2. 

 Trichia capsulifera, DeC. Fl. Fr. vol. ii. p. 254. 1815. 

 Physarum capsuliferum, Chev. Par. vol. i. p. 339. 1826? Duby, Bot. Gall. p. 861. 1830. 



On moss. France. 



This species differs from the two following in its spurious stem, more obovate peridia, 

 and white flocci. It is probably most nearly related to B. utricularis. 



4. Badhamia nitens ; peridiis sessilibus depressis congestis nitide flavis, floccis flavis, 



sporis extiis fortiter- echinulatis. 

 On decayed oak branches. February 21, 1851. East Bergholt, Suffolk (Rev. Dr. Badham). 



Forming little crowded orbicular patches, consisting of depressed sublentiform peridia of a bright per- 

 sistent yellow, perfectly sessile, at length bursting above and dispersing their dark spores, so as to 

 form a border resembling the stains produced by the sporidia of Sphaeria inquinans. Flocci yellow, 

 broad. Spores at first contained in a common vesicle, which bursts or is absorbed and exposes them 

 in the form of little globose branches, which are often supported by an articulated thread, strongly 

 echinulate, externally smooth towards the common axis. Mother-cells tuW~^U(5 of an "ich in dia- 

 meter; spores j^-^. 



5. Badhamia pallida ; peridiis sessilibus depressis sublentiformibus hie illic congestis 



sparsisque pallido-luteis, floccis flavis, sporis majoribus granulatis : vesicula centrali 

 magna. 

 On decayed oak branches. March 1, 1851. East Bergholt, Suffolk (Rev. Dr. Badham). 

 At first exhibiting more or less effused cream-coloured patches, which gradually assume a yellow tinge, 

 and from which arise a few irregular groups of yellow depressed peridia, some of which are con- 

 fluent, somewhat wrinkled. Flocci evidently continued from the peridium and of the same colour, 



