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form in the stack-yards near Luton ; the characters described m 

 the former notice (Jom-n. Bot. 1898, 161) are quite constant. 



Physarum straminipes List. In August, 1899, Mr. Cran supphed 

 me with a typical specimen of this species found on straw near 

 Rhynie, and on Dec. 30th, 1900, I gathered it on dead leaves by 

 the roadside at Lyme Regis; in the same month Miss Hibbert-Ware 

 obtained it, also on dead leaves, at Clevedon. P. straminipes has 

 now been recorded from Bedfordshire, Dorset, Somerset, Norfolk 

 (where it was collected by Mr. Burrell, of Sheringham, ni October, 

 1898), and from Scotland; the characters given in the j5rst de- 

 scription of the species (Journ. Bot. 1898, 163) are constant in all 

 the specimens received from the various localities. 



FuLiGO ELLiPsospoRA List. I am indebted to Mr. Saunders for 

 several fine specimens of F. elllpsospora. The combined sporangia 

 form compact asthalia from one to two inches long, and about a 

 quarter of an inch broad ; they are pure white, with a smooth 

 cortex ; the spores are of the typical ellipsoid shape, and measure 

 13 X 9-10 /x diam. It is the form we receive from America, but 

 has not before been recorded from this country. Mr. Saunders 

 found the sethalia on straw and twigs in a stack-yard on Stopsley 

 Common, near Luton, on September 9th, 1899. On comparing 

 this gathering with that by Miss Fry in 1898 (Journ. Bot. 1899, 

 148), there is a striking difference, as in the latter specimen the 

 sporangia do not form a compact aethalium, and the spores are 

 nearly spherical; in the capillitium and in other respects they 

 closely agree, and we do not doubt that they are both the same 

 species. 



FuLiGo ochracea Peck. In a previous notice (Journ. Bot. 1899, 

 148) I referred to a specimen received from Mr. Fries, of Upsala, 

 as being the first recorded European example of F. ochracea. I am 

 now able to report a second gathering. On September 22nd, 1899, 

 a lobed mass of translucent apricot-coloured Plasmodium was found 

 on rushes growing amongst a cushion of Poli/tricJiiuii commune on 

 the open mountain-side of Aran Mawddwy, Merionethshire, about 

 1000 ft. alt. The rnsh-stems were carefully cut with a pair of 

 scissors and laid on a bed of Sphagnum ; they were brought home, 

 a distance of two miles, and placed under a bell-glass. On the 

 following day the plasmodium had collected in lumps from a quarter- 

 inch to one inch in length, partly on the Sphagnum on to which 

 it had crawled, and partly on the rush- stems. On September 24th 

 the greater part had turned black; it was kept moist until the 26th, 

 when it dried into inconspicuous ochraceous-olive sethalia ; in one 

 or two places the sporangia had not combined into a smooth aetha- 

 lium, but retained their individuality in contorted clusters ; the 

 capillitium is almost B a dhamia -like in character, and consists of 

 large branching apricot-coloured lime-knots with a few connecting 

 hyaline threads ; the spores are purple-brown, minutely warted, 

 and measure 10 /x diam. Except that the capillitium is more 

 orange in colour, this gathering resembles that received from Mr. 

 Fries in all respects. 



