216 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



mous near the apex, spores smooth, obscure violet, 11 12 /x 

 diameter. 



Chondrioderma liceoidcs, Host, Mon. Append., p. 17; Sacc, 

 Syll., 1262. 



On rotten gourd. Carolina. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Licca macrosperma, Sz., Am. Fung., no. 2317 (1834). 



Ligynota nigra, Fr., Sm. Veg. Scan., p. 459 in notam. (1849). 







Chondrioderma reticulatum, Rost. * 



Plasmodium sessile, vein-like, flattened, arcuate, combined into 

 an irregular network, seated on a whitish, delicate, reticulated, 

 spreading hypoffutttus; columella absent; threads of capillitium 

 colourless, very thin, combined to foo-m a dense net ; spores smooth, 

 obscure violet, 7 8 /u, diameter. 



Chondrioderma reticulatum, Rost., Mon., p. 170. 



On rotten branches of pine. Switzerland. 



I have not seen the present species, but the description seems 

 to suggest, that it may possibly be a plasmodiocarp form of 

 C. Michelii. 



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* Sporangium coloured. 



Chondrioderma ochraceum, Schroeter. ^ 



Sporangia sessile, irregular, globose, reniform, semicircular, 

 &c., 1 2 mm. long, 1 mm. across, densely gregarimts, outer wall 

 ochraceous-brcrwn, falling away in irregular squamules; inner 

 wall thin, colourless; columella absent; capillitium copious, 

 threads 2 3 /u thick, violet, smooth, straight or flexuous, 

 frequently anastomosing, and here and there forming a dense 

 reticulation; spores globose, indistinctly punctulate, blackish- 

 violet, 9 11 p diameter. 



Chondrioderma ochraceum, Schroeter, Kr. Fl., 124 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 v., 7, part, I., no. 1283. 



On hepatics. Silesia. 



