104 A Monopraph of the Myxogastres. 



Lam'prodcrma Fuckclianum, Rost., Mon., p. 207; Sacc, Syll,, 

 vii., 1, n. 1347. 

 Germany. 

 Distinguished more especially by the reticulated epispore. 



Lamproderma Lycopodii, Raunk. 



Sporangia single, globose, sessile, on a violet-brown hypo- 

 thallus. Wall, columella, capillitium, and spores violet-brown. 

 The lower part of the wall remains, with irregular, tattered 

 margin. Columella cylindrical, nearly reaching half the height 

 of the sporangium. Capillitium originating singly from the 

 upper part of the columella, in continuation forked more and 

 more, especially at the surface of the sporangium, combined 

 into a net by transverse branches, extremities rather colourless, 

 Spores 12 — 18 ju, diameter, on the surface furnished ivith a 

 delicate network of fine thickenings. 



Zanqirodcrma Lycqwdii, Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 108 (in 

 English). 



(Raunkier's Synonyms.) 



Stcriionitis cribrarioidcs, Fries, Syst, Myc, iii., p. 163; Sacc, 



Syll., vii., 1, no. 1370. 

 Crihraria Lycoperdi, Nees, in litt. 

 On the leaves of Lyeopodimn annotinum. 

 Sealand, 



Enerthenema, Bowm. 



Sporangial wall very thin, fragile, soon disappearing; stem 

 continuing as a columella quite through the sporangium and 

 expanding at its apex into a discoid membrane from which the 

 capillitium originates; capillitium of slender, sub-equal threads 

 which bifurcate and anastomose more or less laterally, tips free ; 

 spores free or at first in clusters. 



Enerthenema, Bowman, Trans., Linn. Soc. (1828), xvi,, p. 151 ; 

 Rost., Mon., p. 209; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. -51; Raunk., Myx. 

 Dan., p. 02 ; Sacc, Syll, v. 7, p. 402. 



