192 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



MYCETOZOA De Bary. (Myxomycetes 

 Wallroth). 



Spore -plants with animal affinities. 

 Sub-class ENDOSPOREAE. 



Genus 1. BADHAMIA Berkeley. 



B. capsulifera Berk. (Lat., bearing capsules). 



On fir-logs, &c., Not common. In the crevice 

 between loose bark and wood of a decayed branch, 

 in a belt of trees between Great Down and the road 

 to Verwood, Edmondsham. Named for me by the 

 staff at Kew. 



B. utrieularis Berk. (Lat., adjective of a name for 

 small skin bottles). On Stereum ochroleucum growing 

 on dead wood from an Edmondsham wood. 



B. panicea Rost. (Lat., made of bread, or perhaps in 

 this case like millet seed). Usually on dead bark 

 of elm ; found on a piece of elm wood, from one of 

 the woods in Edmondsham. 



Genus 2. LEOCARPUS Link. (Gr., leios, smooth, carpos 



fruit). 



L. fragilis (Dicks.) Rost. L. vernicosus Link. (Lat., 

 fragile). 



On dead leaves, &c., not common. Witchampton. 

 Mrs. E. W. Baker. Fir wood near Broadstone. 



Genus 3. DIDYMIUM Schrader. 



D. difforme Duby. (Lat., of two forms). On dead 



leaves, woodland by Great Down, Edmondsham. 

 D. squamulosum Fr. (Lat., of little scales). 

 D. effusum Link. On dead wood. Edmondsham 

 Rectory grounds. 



