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HEREFORDSHIRE MVCETOZOA. 



Br Norm AX G. Haddex. 



So little appears to be known of the distribution of Mycetozoa in 

 the West of Eng'land tbat a list of the species hitherto recorded from 

 the county of Hereford may prove of some interest. Apparently no 

 resident in the count}^ has taken more than a passing interest in the 

 group ; most of tlie records quoted below were made during the 

 Hereford Foray of the British Mycological Society in 1902, others by 

 Mr. Carleton Rea (included in his list in the ' A^ictoria County 

 History '), and the remainder by myself during four years' residence 

 on the Worcestershire side of the Malvern Hills which separate that 

 county from Herefordshire. The only parts of the county which 

 I have worked at all systematicall}^ are the West Malvern and Colwall 

 districts ; the great woods of Stoke Edith, Fawley, and other districts 

 appear to have been unexplored as regards Mycetozoa, but the}^ should 

 yield a rich harvest. Although the following list is not a long one 

 compared with those of better worked counties, it will be found to 

 include several very interesting and uncommon species :— 



Ceratiomyxa fndiciilosa Macbride. Holme Lacy, Dinmore, 

 Whitfield (Y.C.H'.). West Malvern. Colwall. 



Badhamia ittricularis Berk. West Malvern. Colwall. Some- 

 times in great abundance on old logs. 



Physarum viride Pei*s. British Camp. West Malvern. Colwall. 

 V. aurantium Lister. ^ Purlieu Lane, Colwall. — P. 7iutans Pers. 

 Haywood Forest, Eastnor, Brockhamptou (V.C.H.). Abundant 

 about West Malvern. Subsp. leiicophoeum Lister. Haywood Forest, 

 Moccas (V.C.H.). West Malvern. Colwall. — P. conipressum Alb. 

 & Schw. West Malvern. — P. siniiosum Wein. Hereford foray Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. 1902 (V.C.H.). West Malvern. Bosbury. 



Fuliqo sfptica Gmel. Stoke Edith, Holme Lacy, Credenhill 

 (V.C.H.*). Mathon. West Malvern. 



Craterium pedjinciilafum Trent. Dinmore, Downton and Whit- 

 field (V.C.H.). West Malvern. Colwall— C. leucocephaUim Ditm. 

 West Malvern. 



Leocarpns friKfilis Rost. Foxley, Dinmore, Holme Lacy, Eastnor 

 and West Malvern (V.C.H.). 



Diderma spumarioides Rost. Hereford foray, 1902 (V.C.H.). 

 West Malvern. Colwall. — -D. cffiisum Morgan. Purlieu Lane, 

 Colwall, 1914. — D. Trevehjani Rost. West Malvern ; large gather- 

 ings in January and February 19 J 8 and in April 1914. A rare and 

 very beautiful species when mature. — -D. radiafum Rost. West 

 Malvern, Nov. 1911 and Jan. 1913. 



Did ij mi urn difforine Duby. Whitfield, Dinmore, Holme Lacy, 

 Eastnor (V.C.H.). Wind's Point. West Malvern, abundant on 

 hedge clippings etc. — D. clavus Rost. West Malvern. — D. melano- 

 spermum Macbr. Hackett's AVood, Colwall. — B. nigripts Fries. 

 West Malvern. — D. squamidosiim Fries. Downton (V.C.H. ). 

 Abundant in the West Malvern district. 



Mucilago sponc/iosa Morgan. Rothei-w^as, Moccas, Whitfield 

 (V.C.H.). Brock Hill, ColwalL 



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