298 A Monograph of the Myxogastres. 



Physarum globuliferum, Rost., Mon., p. 98; Sacc., Syll., vii., 

 1, n. 1173. 



On moss, leaves, rotten wood, &c. Sweden ; France ; Ger- 

 many. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Sphaerocarpus globulifer, Bull., Champ., p. 134, t. 484, f. 3 



(1791). 

 Stemonitis gldbulifcra, Gmel., Syst. Nat., ii., p. 1467, n. 2 



(1791). 

 Physarum globuliferum, Pers., Syn., p. 175, t. 3, f. 11, 12 



(1801). 



Trichia globulifera, D.C., Fl. Fr., 2, p. 253 (1805). 

 Didenna globuliferum, Fr., l.c., iii., p. 100 (1829). 



B. Sporangia sessile, plasmodiocarp, or acthalioid. 

 4 * Epispore warted. 



Physarum cinereum, Rost. (figs. 71 73). n 



Sporangia sessile on a broad base, sometimes globose, scattered 

 or crowded, at others elongated, flexuous and depressed, wall 

 rigid with lime, white ; columella absent ; capillitium abundant 

 with numerous large, irregular knots of lime connected by very 

 thin threads; spores globose, dingy violet, minutely warted, 

 10 13 n diameter. 



Physarum cinereum, Rost., Mon., p. 102, figs. 71, 72, 85 ; 

 Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 13, figs. 71, 72, 85 ; Sacc., Syll., n. 1189 ; 

 Schroeter, p. 128; Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 75, t. 4, f. 9. 



Exsicc. Ellis and Everhart, N. Amer. Fung., ser. II., n. 

 2085 ; Rav., Fung. Car., 79 and 83. 



Fung. Cub. Wrightiani, 535 ; De Thum., Myc. Univ., 1598 ; 

 Holl, Schmidt and Kunze, Deutsch. Schw., 38 ; Roum., Fung. 

 Gall., 1881. 



On leaves, wood, twigs, &c. Britain (King's Cliflfe, Bury St. 

 Edmund's, Bungay, Kevv, Hitchin, Carlisle, Scarboro', Berwick, 

 N. Wales, Linlithgow) ; Germany; Finland; Sweden; Belgium; 



