392 MTXOGASTEES. 



1143. Badhamia hyalina. Berh, " Hyaline Badhamia." 



Peridia globose, inflated, very delicate, whitish, stems fas- 

 ciculate, flaccid, ascending, rufous ; flocci white ; spores black. — 

 Berh, Linn. Trans, xxi. t. 1.9,/. 3. Physarumhyalinum. Fr. S.M. 

 iii. p. 139. Eng.Fl.Y. p. 315. Pers. Disp. t. 2,/. 4. Be7^k. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 213. Fl. Dan. t. 2093,/. 1. 



On rotten wood. Appin. Lambley, Notts. [Mid. Carolina.] 



1144. Badhamia fulvella. Berh. '* Tawny Badhamia." 



Peridia gregarious, sessile, globose, black, invested with a 

 delicate tawny down ; flocci whitish. — Linn. Trans, xxi. j^- 154. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 733. 



On dead wood. East Bergholt, Suffolk. 



Peridium very thin, black apparently, but yellow when divested of the 

 spores. Gregarious, but not forming distinct patches, sessile, globose, 

 clothed with very delicate, tawny down ; mother-cells ('001 in.) "025 ni.m. 

 diameter ; spores COOOS-'OOO/S in.) •0125-'018 m.m., black, forming a com- 

 pact mass. Flocci often swollen in the middle, whitish. The habit is that of 

 a Didy/niurnTSith.er than of a Physarum. 



1145. Badhamia pallida. Berk. *' Pallid Badhamia." 



Peridia sessile, depressed, sub-lentiform, crowded here and 

 there, or scattered, pallid-yellow ; flocci yellow; spores large; 

 granulate ; central vesicle large. — Berk. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 

 p. 153,M9,/. 2. Ann.N.H.no.l?>2. 



On decayed oak branches. March. East Bergholt. 



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 confluent, somewhat wrinkled. 

 Flocci evidently continued from the peridium, and of the same colour, 

 branched, forming triangular spaces at the origin of the branches. Mother 

 cells '05 m.m. (■00175-"062 in.) diameter, spores slightly granulated, (.0005- 

 •0008 in.) •0127-*02 m.m. long, attached to a large central vesicle. The peri- 

 dium consists of a membrane, rough with very minute granules, which be- 

 come more dense where the flocci are produced. In old specimens the 

 patches assume an olive tinge. 



1146. Badham.ia nitens. Berk. " Shining Badhamia." 



Peridia subsessile, depressed, crowded, shining yellow, flocci 

 yellow : spores externally strongly echinulate. — Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxi. p. 153. t. 19,/. 1. Ann. N.H. no. 731. 



