180 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



rose-yellow, polished, shining ; mass of spores and elaters dull- 

 orange; elaters cylindrical, 14 16 ju, thick, rather short, ending 

 in a very short, abrupt, smooth apiculus, spirals rather pro- 

 minent, distant, without spines; spores globose, with rather 

 large, rounded warts, 14 16 /x diameter. 



Trichia nitens, Fries, MS.; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 333, fig. 11. 



(Specimen from Fries in Herb. Berk., Kew, and named by 

 Fries " Trichia nitens, Fr.") 



On wood. Upsala. 



A very fine large species, forming dense clusters 1 in. and 

 more across. Externally resembling Oligonema nitens, Host., 

 distinct from T. varia in the polished, shining sporangia, and 

 the thicker elaters, with very short, abruptly apiculate tips. 



Trichia inconspicua, Rost. 



Sporangia very minute, brown, shining, subspherical, collected 

 in clusters or scattered ; hypothallus absent ; elaters cylindrical, 

 3 '3 /u thick, tips pointed, 6 7 /x long, curved, sometimes with 

 elongated swellings near the ends, spirals 3 4, but slightly 

 prominent, rather close; spores delicately vcmiculose, 10 12 pt 

 diameter. 



TricJiia inconspicua, Rost., Mon., p. 259 ; Sacc., Syll., n. 1502 ; 

 Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 335. 



Germany; France. 



Trichia proximella, Karst. 



Sporangia substipitate or sessile, circular or irregularly angular 

 from pressure, yellow or dingy ochraceous, polished ; mass of 

 elaters and spores ochraceous; elaters cylindrical, sometimes 

 branched, ending abruptly in a short, smooth, straight or oblique 

 apiculus, 4 5 p thick, spirals prominent, distant ; spores globose, 

 rather coarsely wartcd, 12 14 p. diameter. 



Trichia proximella, Karst., Myc. Fenn., iv., p. 139; Sacc., 

 Syll., vii., 1, no. 1507; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 335. 



On wood. Finland. 



