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adult condition. He says, that " with those mycolof^ists to whom 

 every spore-capsule is necessarily a funfjus, and whose visicju is sealed 

 to every organism beyond their special line of research, the Mycetozoa 

 will to the end of time be Funj^i still," and althoufih it is to be 

 feared that few mycologists will reco<,'nise themselves in that very 

 comprehensive detinition as those " to whom every spore-capsule is 

 necessarily a funjjus," yet they do for the present believe that they are 

 " Fungi still." But they must place them in a position like that 

 assigned to them in the fourth (German) edition of Sachs' Botany, 

 where they are considered as one of the lowest and most aberrant 

 groups of Fungi, forming equally with the lower Algae a point of 

 approach to the Protozoa. 



FIRST LIST OF THK MYXOMYCETES OF THK NEIGHBOURHOOD OF 

 BIRMINGHAM. 



The species are arranged according to the method of Kostalinski, 

 with the synonyms of the "Handbook" added. 



1. — PJu/saruin ciiten'uin (Batsch.), Didijmium cinereum, Fr. Sutton, on a 



decayed, polyporus-covered stump. (See page 92.) Feb. 



2. — P. siuuosuni (Bull.), Aniiioridiinn siiiuosum, Grev. Sutton park, on a 



dead holly leaf. Sep. 



3. — Crateritini vuli/are, Ditm., C. pedunculatiun, Trent. Sutton Park 



and Oltou Reservoir, on dead bramble twigs. *Oct. 



4. — C leucocepJiahtin (Pers.) Sutton, on dead bark. Jan. 



o.—TiliiuidocIie tiutnns (Pers.), Plnjsarum nutatis, Pers. Sutton and 



in Sutton Park, on dead bark Oct., Nov. 



6. — Leocarpus fraciilis (Dicks.), Diderma vcrnicosum, Pers. Sutton Park, 



on leaves of grass and stems and leaves of bilberry. Sep. 



7. — Didijmium squamidosiuii (A. and S.), var. costntum. Oscott, on dead 



bark. Jan. 



8. — Chondrioderma difforme (Pers.), Diderma cijanescens, Fr. Sutton 



and Sutton Park, on dead bark. Oct., Nov. 



9. — Spumaria alba (Bull.) Sutton, on petioles of coltsfoot. Sep., Oct. 



10. — Stcmonitis ftisca (Roth.) Sutton, on dead wood. Sep. 



11. — Comatricha Frie.iiiiiKi (D. By.), Stemuniti.'^ obtusata, Fr. Sutton, 



on dead wood and decayed polyporus. Oct. — Jan. 



12. — Enertkenema popiUata (Pers.), E. elegans. Bowman, not Cooke. 



Sutton, on ratting wood. Feb. 



13. — Reticuluria lycopevdon (Bull.), R. umbriim. Fr. Sutton and Oscott, 



on logs. Oct., Nov. 



14. — Tricltiafalliix, Pers. Sutton, on rotten wood. Oct. — Jan. 



15. — T. varia, Pers. Sutton, on rotten wood. Aug. — Nov. 



16. — T. varia (Pers.), var. )ii!iripet>, T. nigripes, Pers. Oscott and 



Sutton, on rotten wood or bark. Nov. — Jan. 



17. — PrototrichiajiaijeUifera (B. and Br.), Trichia (?) Jiageilifer, B. and 



Br. Sutton, on rotten wood or bark. Sep., Feb. 



18. — Hemiarcijria rubi/ormis (Pers.), Trichia rubiformis, Pers. Sutton, 



on rotten wood. Sep., Oct. 



19. — Arcyria punicea, Fevs. Sutton, on rotten wood. Aug. — Oct. 



20. — A. cinerea (Bull.), A. cinerea, Schum. Sutton, on decorticated 



branches. Nov. 



21. — A. incarnata, Pers. Sutton, on rotten wood. Oct., Nov. 



22. — Pericluena corticalia (Batsch), P. populina, Fr. Sutton and Sutton 



Park, on the imier side of dead bark, often covering a large 



area, Sep.— Nov. 



