Phylum Protoplasta [175 



3. Calcium carbonate in walls but not 



in capillitium Family 14. DrovMiACEA. 



Family 1. Liceacea [Liceaceae] (Rostafinski) Lankester in Enc. Brit. ed. 9, 19: 

 841 (1885). Tribe Liceaceae Rostafinski Vers. 4 (1873). Order Liceaceae Lister 

 Monog. Mycetozoa 149 (1894). Family Liceidae Doflein 1909. Family Orcadel- 

 lidae Poche in Arch. Prot. 30: 200 (1913). Family Orcadellaceae Macbride N. Am. 

 Slime Molds ed. 2: 203 (1922). Sporangia separate, sessile or stalked, without capil- 

 litium or pseudocapillitium, the walls shattering irregularly or opening by means of 

 a terminal operculum. Licea, Orcadella. 



Family 2. Cribrariacea [Cribrariaceae] (Rostafinski) Lankester 1. c. Tribe Crib- 

 rariaccac Rostafinski op. cit. 5. Order Cribrariaceae Macbride N. Am. Slime Molds 

 20 (1899). Order Heterodermaceae Lister op. cit. 136. Family Cribrariidae Poche 

 1. c. The wall of the stalked fruit becoming sieve-like. Cribraria. Dictydium. 



Family 3. Tubiferida [Tubiferidae] Poche in Arch. Prot. 30: 200 (1913). Order 

 Tubulinaceae Lister op. cit. 152 (1894). Family Tubulinidae Doflein 1909. Family 

 Tubiferaceae Macbride in N. Am. Slime Molds ed. 2: 203 (1922). Aethalia consist- 

 ing of tubular sporangia opening through terminal pores. Tubifer (its older name 

 Tubulina preoccupied), Lindbladia, Alwisia. 



Family 4. Reticulariacea [Reticulariaceae] (Rostafinski) Lankester 1. c. Tribes 

 Dictydiaethaliaceae and Reticulariaceae Rostafinski op. cit. 5, 6. Order Reticularia- 

 ceae Lister op. cit. 156. Family Dictydiaethaliidae Poche I.e. Aethalia of indistinct 

 sporangia whose walls become porous and are converted into a reticulate pseudo- 

 capillitium. Reticularia, Dictydiaethallium, etc. 



Family 5. Lycogalactida [Lycogalactidae] Poche in Arch. Prot. 30: 201 (1913). 

 Tribe Lycogalaceae de Bary. Order Lycogalaceae Macbride N. Am. Slime Molds 20 

 (1899). Y di.m.i\y Lycogalaceae Macbride and Martin Myxomycetes (1934). Aethalia 

 with a pseudocapillitium, not divided into sporangia. Lycogala, the brownish fruits a 

 few millimeters in diameter clustered on wood, of much the appearance of small 

 puffballs. 



Family 6. Amaurochaetacea [Amaurochaetaceae] (Rostafinski) Berlese in Sac- 

 cardo Sylloge 7: 401 (1888). Tribe Amaurochaetaceae Rostafinski op. cit. 8. Order 

 Amaurochaetaceae Lister op. cit. 134. Family Amaurochaetidae Doflein 1909. 

 Fruits aethalioid with dark spores and a poorly defined capillitium without a central 

 axis. Amaurochaete. 



Family 7. Stemonitea Lankester in Enc. Brit. ed. 9, 19: 841 (1885). Tribes Stemo- 

 nitaceae and Brefeldiaceae Rostafinski op. cit. 6, 8. Families Stemonitaceae and 

 Brefeldiaceae Berlese in Saccardo op. cit. 390, 402. Order Stemonitaceae Macbride 

 N. Am. Slime Molds 20 (1899). Family Stemonitidae Doflein 1909. Families Bre- 

 feldiidae and Stemonitidae Poche op. cit. 202. Sporangia with dark spores and a 

 capillitium of smooth threads spreading from a central axis, the columella. Stemo- 

 nitis, comm.on, the clustered stalked fruits of the appearance of minuscule dark 

 bottle-brushes. Brefeldia, Comatricha; Diachea, exceptional in containing much lime 

 in the stalk and wall. 



Family 8. Enerthenemea Lankester 1. c. Tribes Echinosteliaceae and Enerthene- 

 maceae Rostafinski op. cit. 7, 8. Families Echinosteliaceae and Enerthenemaceae 

 Berlese in Saccardo op. cit. 389, 402. Family Lamprodermaceae Macbride N. Am. 

 Slime Molds ed. 2: 189 (1922). Like Stemonitea, in which this family has usually 

 been included, but the capillitium attached chiefly at the summit of the columella. 

 Enerthenema, Clastoderma, Lamproderma, Echinostelium. 



