Badhamia. 321 



Badhamia utricularis, Berk., Linn. Trans., xxi., p. 153 (1801); 



Cooke, Hdbk., n. 1147. 

 Physarum melaleucum, Nyl., p. 126 (1859). 



Badhamia granulifera, Phill. Lepi<i 



Gregarious, but not crowded, sessile on a broad base, hemi- 

 spherical or slightly elongated, subdepressed, wall thick, with 

 crowded, large, flattened, glistening, pale brown scales of bicar- 

 bonate of lime ; inner wall very thin, iridescent ; splitting irregu- 

 larly above; mass of spores blackish-purple; columella shortly 

 cylindrical or subglolose ; capillitium copious, forming an irregular 

 network, passing from the columella to the inner wall, threads 

 with numerous, irregular flattened inflations containing minute 

 granules of lime ; spores at first in clusters ; spherical when free, 

 with a small circular portion of the wall thinner and convex, 

 minutely warted all over, 18 20 /A diameter. 



Badhamia gramdifera, Phillips, in Herb. 



Didymium granuliferum, Phill., Grev., vol. v., p. 114, t. 88, 

 f. 1, a /; Sacc., Syll., vii, 1, n. 1316. 



(Type in Herb., Phill.) 



On herbaceous stems. San Francisco. 



A very beautiful and remarkable species, externally resembling 

 a Lepidoderma in the large, distinct, scale-like patches of bicar- 

 bonate of lime. Sporangia circular or elongated, slightly de- 

 pressed, 2 3 mm. long. 



Badhamia Fuckeliana, Host. TVi tW^fW * ? 



Sporangia discoid, 1 mm. broad, stipitate, frequently umbili- 

 cate above or below ; stem even, elongated, coloured ; spores 

 blackish-violet; epispore delicately spinulose, 9 12 ^ diameter. 



a. genuina. Sporangia 1 mm. diameter, stem 1 mm. long. 



fB. gracilis. Sporangia *5 mm. diameter, stem 1 1'5 mm. 

 long. 



Badhamia Fuckeliana, Host., Mon. App., p. 2; Sacc., Syll., 

 vii., 1, n. 1148. 



Trichamphora Fuckeliana, Host., Mon., p. 138. 



