160 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



Switzerland; Italy; Belgium; Denmark; Hungary; Finland; 

 Bohemia; Venezuela; United States; Cuba; Ceylon; Australia; 

 New Zealand. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Clathroides pyriforme, Hall, t. 1, f. 5 (1742). 

 Trichia, Hall, t. 48, f. 5, No. 2167 (1798). 

 Lycoperdon vesparium, Batsch, t. 30, f. 172 (1786). 

 Stemonitis cinnabarina, Roth. Fl. Germ., 347 (1788). 

 Lycoperdon favaceum, Schr. Fl. Bav., ii., 667 (1789). 

 Trichia pyriformis, Hoffm. V. Cr., t, 1, f. 1, (1790). 

 Stemonitis fasciculata, Pers. in Gmel. Sys., 1468 (1791). 

 Stemonitis vesparia, Gmel. Sys., 1070 (1791). 

 Trichia rubiformis, Pers. Disp., t. 1, f. 3, t. 4, f. 3 (1797); 



Berk. Ann. N. H., No. 218; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1177. 

 Trichia rubiformis, /3 minor, Pers. Disp., 54 (1797). 

 Lycoperdon ferrugineum, Hedw., t. 10, f. 1 4 (1802). 

 Trichia chalybea, Chev. Fl. Par., t. 9, f. 24 (1827). 

 Trichia Neesiana, Corda Ic., i., f. 288 c (1837). 

 Trichia Ayresii, B. and Br., Ann. N. H., No. 390; Cooke, 



Hdbk., No. 1179. 



Arcyria paradoxa, Mass. (fig. 272). 



Sporangia scattered or aggregated, sessile on a broad base, 

 hemispherical or irregularly elongated, smooth, rather shining, 

 dirty ochraceous, inner surface of the wall with a layer of organic 

 particles; mass of capillitium and spores pale lemon-yellow; 

 capillitium scanty, threads 4 5 fj. thick, much contorted and 

 forming a very loose net with but few abrupt free tips, spirals 

 very much crowded, not prominent ; spores globose, very minutely 

 warted, 8 10 /x diameter. 



Hemiarcyria paradoxa, Mass., Rev. Trich., p. 356, 357, fig. 35. 



On wood. Weybridge ; Surrey. 



Sporangia when hemispherical about *5 mm. diameter, 1 2 

 mm. when elongated. Distinguished amongst species with 



