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Badhamia. 325 



becoming lacerated during dehiscence, at length evanescent; 

 threads of capillitium adnate, vague, white; spores Uackish- 

 brown, 12 13 /* diameter, smooth. 



Badhamia vema, Rost., Mon., p. 145 ; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1, n. 

 331. 



(Rostafinski's Synonym.) 



Physarum vernum, Somf., in Litt., Ad. Fries, S. M., iii., p. 146 

 (1829). 



Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter. 



Sporangia sessile, about '5 mm. broad, collepted in small 

 clusters or arranged in rows ; hypothallus nearly obsolete ; spor- 

 angial wall thin, bright grey ; capillitium slender, white, threads 

 irregularly nodulose with masses of lime, from 3 4 up to 12 ju 

 thick, nodes not incrassated ; spores not clustered, 7'5 9 fx 

 diameter, smooth, violet. 



Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter, Kr. Fl. Schles., p. 131 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., n. 1145. 



Badhamia melanospora, Speg. 



Sporangia sessile, densely gregarious, spherical, smooth, greyish- 

 white, after the spores have disappeared, snow-white ; columella 

 absent; tubes of capillitium rigid, united to form a compact 

 network, internodes fusiformly thickened in the centre, nodes flat- 

 tened ; spores in clusters or free, smooth, black, opaque, sub- 

 angular from mutual pressure, 15 /u diameter. 



Badhamia mclanosperma, Speg., Fung. Arg., Pug. I., p. 88 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., n. 1164. 



On rotten trunks. Argentina. 



Badhamia coadnata, Rost. 



Sporangia very numerous, conglomerated; sporangia spring- 

 ing from a white, well-developed hypothallus ; capillitium threads 

 snow-white, copious, rigid, aggregated in the centre towards the 

 base of the sporangium to form an irregular columella ; spores 

 globose, bright violet, epispore thick, smooth, 8 9 p diameter. 



