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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 Reticularia 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 :— 
Pat e BADHAMIA, n. g. 
Peridium simplex, extüs nudum, vel rarissimè subtomentosum, apice demüm lacerato apertum ; flocci laxe 
reticulati, parietibus affixi, hic illic expansi in laminam sæpè triangularem peridio similem ; spore glo- 
bosæ vel subangulares, primum sacco communi inclusze, demum liberate, conglobato-adnatæ. 
Fungi minores, fragilissimi, muscos vel corticem colentes, Physarum ut plurimum referentes. 
1. Badhamia hyalina= Physarum hyalinum, Auct. 
3. Badhamia utricularis= Physarum utriculare, Auct. 
3. BADHAMIA CAPSULIFER; peridiis sessilibus vel breviter membranaceo-pedicellatis ob- 
ovatis congestis e nigrocæsiis albidis, floccis candidis. 
Spherocarpus capsulifer, Bull. t. 470. fig. 2. RE 
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. 
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4. BADHAMIA NITENS; peridiis sessilibus depressis congestis nitide flavis, floccis flavis, 
sporis extüs 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 Spheria 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 „555-735 of an inch in dia- 
meter; spores 5555-2959: 
5. BADHAMIA PALLIDA; peridiis sessilibus depressis sublentiformibus hic illie congestis 
sparsisque pallido-luteis, floccis flavis, sporis majoribus granulatis : vesiculà centrali 
magná. 
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, 
