Notes on south nigerian mycetozoa 



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Table of Mycetozoa recorded 

 FROM Africa, and their Distri- 

 bution Elsewhere — {continued). 



Reticularia Lycopeidon Bull. . 

 Lycogala epideiidiirm (L.) Fr. 



,, ,, var. tessclhitum 



Trichia favofjinca Pers. . 



,, varia Pers. 



,, persimilis Karst. 

 Oligonema nitens (Lib.) Kost. 

 Hcmitrichia Vesjjariuiu (Batsch) Macbi 

 ,, clavata (Pers.) Kost. . 



,, Serpula (Scop.) Eoat. . 



Airi/ria ferruginea Sauter 



,, cinerea (Bull.) Pers. . 



,, denudata (L ) Sheldon 



,, insignis Kalchbr. & Cke. . 



,, incarnata Pers. . 



,, nutans (Bull.) Pers. . 



,, (Erstcdtil Kost. . 

 Pcrichcena depressa Lib. 



,, vermicularis (Schw.) Kost. 



Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Mueller) Macbride. Very 

 abundant on decaying logs. In one instance the plasmodium 

 was observed to be bright yellow in colour as it emerged in little 

 rounded masses from bits of oil palm and other wood lying on 

 the ground ; the mature sporophores were pale yellow. 



Yav. flexuosa Lister; "very abundant on moist logs, not on 

 palms ; forming beautiful white masses nearly 6 mm. high." 



Physarum roseum Berk. & Br. Found once in a thin strip of 

 forest by the bank of a stream near Meko ; it was in the 

 Plasmodium stage, and formed blood-red thread-like veins over 

 the surface of a species of Thelephora; later it developed into 

 typical crimson sporangia with short orange-red stalks. 



P. viride (Pers.) Bull. var. aurantium Lister. Not uncommon 

 at Ibadan on dead w^ood. Var. rigidum Lister ; found several 

 times in large masses on dead wood at Agege, near Lagos ; the 

 sporangium-walls and almost tubular capillitium threads contain 

 scanty deposits of orange lime-granules ; the spores are rich 

 purple-brown, 10 /x diam. 



P. NUCLEATUM Ecx. Not uncommou on dead wood, stalks of 

 palm leaves, etc. 



P. PUSiLLUM (Berk. & Curt.) Lister. Abundant at Ibadan in 

 August 1913 ; the sporangia formed patches a foot or two in 

 length on the sheathes of oil palm ; they occurred also on old 

 cotton bolls. The specimens on palm sheathes have small 

 sporangia which are often umbilicate above, and short yellowish- 

 red or yellowish-brown stalks ; those on cotton bolls have long 

 red- brown stalks. 



