40 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



Tubulina nitidissima, Berk., Journ. Linn. Soc., v. 18, p. 387 

 (from examination of type) ; Licea rubiformis, B. and Curt, 

 (from exam, of type). 



Licea microsperma, B. and C. (from exam, of type). 



Eocsicc. Syd., Myc. March., 1498; Cke., Brit. Fung., ed. ii., 

 528; Karst., Myc. Fenn., 697; Fekl., F. Rhen., 1470; Roum, 

 Fung. Gall., 3066 ; Ellis and Everh., N. A. Fung, ser. II. 2096. 



On wood. Forming compact cakes varying from half an inch 

 to a foot or more in diameter, varying from umber-brown to 

 chestnut, the surface granular with the convex apices of the 

 sporangia. When immature and pulpy, of a beautiful straw- 

 berry colour. Hypothallus spongy, resembling when thick the 

 sterile base 'of a Lycopcrdon. Dr. Rex considers that two 

 distinct species are confounded under the above name. 



Britain (Apethorpe, Powerscourt, Brandon, Scarboro', Car- 

 lisle, Glamis, N. B.); Germany; France; Sweden; Finland; 

 Hungary; Belgium; United States; India; Ceylon; Australia. 



(Rostafmski's Synonyms.) 



Tubulifera ceratum, Fl. Dan., t. 659, f. 2 (1777). 



Tubulifera arachnoidea, Jacq., Misc., t. 15 (1778). 



Mucor tubulosus, Retz. 



Stemonitisferruginea, Batsch, f. 175 (1786). 



Spliaerocarpus cylindricus, Bull., t. 470, f. 3 (1791). 



Spha&rocarpus fragiformis, Bull, t. 384 ? (1791). 



Tubifera fcrruginosa, Gmel, Syst. 1472 (1791). 



Tubifera cylindrica, Gmel., Syst. 1472 (1791). 



Tubifera fragiformis, Gmel, Syst. 1472 (1791). 



Trichia fragiformis, With., Arr, iii. 480 (1792). 



Tubulifera coccinea, Trent, p. 243 (1797). 



Licea tubulina, Schrad, N. G, 16 (1797). 



Licea clavata, Schrad, N. G, 18 (1797). 



Tubulina fragiformis, Pers, Disp, p. 11 (1797); Pers, Syn, 



t. 4, f. 3, 4. 



Tubulina fallax^ers., Obs., ii. 28 (1799). 

 Tubulina fragiformis, a. papillata, ft. clavata, y. conica, o. 



coccinea, e. operculata : P.ers, Obs, ii. 29. 



