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Badhamia nitens, Berk. (figs. 176179). 



Sporangia globose, sessile, aggregated, bright yellow, covered 

 with minute, scale-like particles of lime; splitting irregularly 

 above; capillitium well developed, threads thick, yellowish, 

 lime almost obsolete.; spores purple, aggregated in clusters, free 

 portion coarsely warted, remainder smooth, 10 16 ju diameter. 



Badhamia nitens, Berk., Trans. Linn. Soc., xxi., p. 153, t. 19, 

 f. 1 ; Host., Mon. App., p. 27 (in part.). 



(Type in Herb. Berk.) 



Badhamia inaurata, Currey, Linn. Trans., xxiv. (1851), t. 25, 

 f. 8 ; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 28 ; Sacc., Syll., vii., n. 1162. 

 (Type in Brit. Mus.) 



On moss, wood, &c. Britain (Carlisle, East Bergholt, Wey- 

 bridge). 



Readily distinguished by the bright yellow sporangia and the 

 clustered spores. 



Spores smooth. 

 Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Host. 



Sporangia gregarious but distant, irregular, subrotund or reni- 

 form, about 07 mm. broad, 07 2 mm. long, bright yellow-brown 

 or pallid ; capillitium well developed, tubes thick, nodes 35 ft, 

 broad ; spores 9 11 p. diameter, obscure violet, smooth. 



Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Host., Mon., p. 146 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 vii., 1, n. 1154. 



On dead leaves. Poland ; Germany. 



Sporangial wall thick, rufous-brown, dehiscing in a circum- 

 scissile manner by an operculum. (Berlese in Sacc., Syll.) 



(Rostafinski's Synonym.) 



Physarum Alexandrowiczii, De Bary and Rost., in Litt., Ad. 

 Alexand., I.e., p. 88 (1872). 



Badhamia verna, Rost. 



Sporangia gregarious, depressed, variable in form, confluent, 

 not sinuous, wall very thin, blackish-brown, smooth, very fragile, 



