Badhamia. 323 



Badhamia irregularis, C. and E. 



Scattered, sessile; sporangia suborbicular or confluent, at 

 length blackish-brown; spores brown, globose, asperulate, 10 /^ 

 diameter. 



Badhamia irregularis, Cooke and Ellis. 



On pine wood. N. America. 



I have seen no specimen of the present imperfectly described 

 species. 



Spores in clusters, free, surface warted, reminder smooth. 



Badhamia papaveracea, Berk, and Rav. 



Sporangia usually densely gregarious, with a few scattered 

 marginal individuals, hemispherical or irregularly polygonal 

 from mutual pressure, sessile, or with a rudimentary stem, wall 

 smooth or rugulose, white, greyish, or yellowish, iridescent when 

 empty ; capillitium usually dense, white, threads with large 

 nodular or interstitial swellings containing lime, combined to 

 form an irregular network ; mass of spores blackish-purple, spores 

 at first in clusters of 3 7, triangularly pyramidal, with a 

 rounded base which corresponds to the free portion of the spore, 

 and is covered with minute warts, the remainder smooth, pale 

 lilac or brownish-lilac, 9 10 /x diameter. 



Badhamia papaveracea, Berk, and Rav., Grev., vol. ii., p. 66 

 (1873) ; Rost., Mon., p. 147 ; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1, n. 1152. 

 (Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, n. 10794.) 



Badhamia pallida, Berk., Linn. Trans., xxi., p. 153, t. 19, f. 2; 

 Sacc., Syll., n. 1153 (in part.). 



(Type in Herb. Berk., 10790.) 



Exsicc. Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 1214 (as Badhamia hyalina, 

 p. 320). 



On wood, &c. Britain (East Bergholt, Weybridge) ; U. States. 



Allied to B. nitens, which differs in the bright yellow spor- 

 angial wall, and the much more coarsely warted free portion of 

 the spores. 



