178 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



Maters cylindrical. 



* Spirals not spinulose. 



Trichia varia, Host. (figs. 169172). 



Sporangia scattered or aggregated, stipitate, or sessile on a 

 narrow or broad base, turbinate or subglobose, smooth, yellow, 

 dirty ochraceous or tinged with olive; stem when present 

 blackish ; mass of capillitium and spores yellow ; elaters cylin- 

 drical, 4 5 /x thick, spirals distant, prominent, more especially 

 on the convex side when curved, rarely branched, tips smooth, 

 tapering, straight or bent, 8 10 /u, long, sometimes shorter; the 

 elaters are sometimes swollen at the commencement of the taper- 

 ing tips ; spores globose, minutely warted, 10 14 ju diameter. 



Trichia varia, Host., Mon., p. 251, figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 

 218, 237; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 63, figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 

 218, 237; Schroeter, p. 112; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1, no. 1497; 

 Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 65, t. 3, f. 14, t. 4, f. 3; Mass., Mon. 

 Trich., p. 9, f. 17. 



Exsicc. Jack, Leiner u. Sitz., 419 ; Karst., Fung. Fenn., 288 

 and 699; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1431 and 1433; Roum., Fung. 

 Gall., 1101 and cent. xiv. 1315 ; Rab., Fung. Eur., 799, 2137 

 and 2138; Thum., Myc. Univ., 1999; Sacc., Myc. Van., 794. 



On bark, wood, moss, &c. Britain (Kew, Bishop's Wood, 

 Highgate ; Weybridge, Scarboro', Carlisle, Abergavenny, Appin, 

 N. B.) ; France ; Denmark ; Germany ; Finland ; Italy ; Bo- 

 hemia ; United States ; Tasmania ; New Zealand ; Australia. 



A variable species, sometimes with a distinct, dark-coloured 

 stem, at others quite sessile on a narrow or broad base. 

 Characterized by the cylindrical elaters with distant, prominent 

 spirals, and the minutely warted spores. In the specimen in 

 Rabenh., Fung. Eur., n. 2137, the warts show a slight tendency 

 to become elongated and flattened. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 a. Trichia varia, v. nigripes. 

 Mucilago minima, Mich., t. 96, f. 4 (1729). 



