388 • MYXOGASTEES. 



1129. Didyznium lobatum. Nees. " Lobed Didymium." 



Sub-sessile, peridiiim sub-rotund, or yariable, somewhat 

 lobed, black ; clothed with whitish scurf, columella depressed, 

 flocci and spores black-brown. — Fr. S.M. ui.p. 123. Eng.Fl. v. 

 p. 314. Nees.f. 104. Bisch. f. 3G84. Fl. Dan. t. 2094,/. 2. 



On moss. [United States.] 



1130. Didymium congestum. B. ^- Br. *' Crowded 



DidymiuiXL." 



Crowded, stems sub-membranaceous, hyaline ; peridia obovate, 

 elongated ; spores black, variegated with white flocci. — Ann. 

 N.H. no. 384. Fl. Dan. t. 1273, Jig. 1, lower fig. 



On dead leaves, grass, &c. King's Cliffe. 



[N. Carolina, U.S.] 



Forming crowded patches, very much resembling those of DiacJicea elegans. 

 Peridia obovate-oblong, cinerous, with a white mealy coat; stems hyaline, 

 membranaceous, generally distinct, though crowded, springing from a thin 

 subjacent membrane. Spores black, variegated with the white coarse, irregu- 

 lar, here and there lacunose flocci. The globose spores appear at first sight 

 to be granulated, but on closer inspection the granules are found to arise 

 from the disintegrated outer peridium. — M. J. B. 



1131. Didymium daedaleum. B. ^' Br. "Spreading 



Didymium." 



Stems short, coalescing ; peridia connate, sinuate, dgedaloid, 

 pale reddish brown, as well as the stems, farinaceous ; flocci 

 white, spores purplish-black. — Ann. N.H. no. 385. 



In a cucumber frame. April. Milton, Norths. 



Spreading far and wide in little subglobose masses ; stems red dish -brown, 

 inclining to orange, connate, as if composed of a mass of little flat bran-like 

 membranes; peridia connate, sinuated, forming a dsedaloid mass of the same 

 colour as the stem, but sprinkled with white meal, and having to the eye a 

 greyish tinge from the contained spores, which are purplish-l)lack, smooth, 

 and globose, varie::^ated with the white flo'-ci, whicli are frequently forked, 

 and vary greatly in width, being in parts broad, flat, and membranous. — 

 M. J. B. 



1132. Didym.ium. physarioides. Fr. " Black Didymium." 



Peridia crowded, subrotund, irregular, black ; covered with a 

 •whitish powder, columella none, spores conglobated, blackish. — 

 Fr. S.M. 111. p. \'2b. Eng.Fl. v. ^9. 314. Kl. exs. no. 176. 



On rotten stumps, moss, &c. Appin. [Low Carolina.] 



