216 A Monograjyh of the Myxogastres. 



maics near the ajKx, spores smooth, obscure violet, 11 — 12 /ut 

 diameter. 



Chondnoderma liccoides, Rost, Mon. Append., p. 17; Sacc, 

 Syll, 1262. 



On rotten jiourd. Carolina. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Licca macrosperiiia, Sz., Am. Fung., no. 2317 (1834). 

 Ligynota nigra, Fr., Sra. Veg. Scan., p. 459 in notam. (1840). 



Chondrioderma reticulatum, Rost. 



Plasmodium sessile, vein-like, flattened, arcuate, comhined into 

 an irregular nctworic, seated on a whitish, delicate, reticulated, 

 S2')reading hypothallus ; columella absent ; threads of capillitium 

 colourless, veo^y thin, comhined to form a dense net ; sjjores smooth, 

 obscure violet, 7 — 8 /x diameter, 



Chondrioderma reticulatum, Rost., Mon., p. 170. 



On rotten branches of pine. Switzerland. 



I have not seen the present species, but the description seems 

 to suggest that it may possibly be a plasmodiocarp form of 

 C. Miclielii. 



* * S'porangiitm coloured. 

 Chondrioderma ochraceuin, Schroeter. 



Sporangia sessile, irregular, globose, reniform, semicircular, 

 &c., 1 — 2 mm. long, 1 mm. across, densely gregarioics, outer wall 

 oehraceous-brown, falling away in irregular squamules; inner 

 wall thin, colourless; columella cd)sent ; capillitium copious, 

 threads- 2 — 3 fx thick, violet, smooth, straight or flexuous, 

 frequently anastomosing, and here and there forming a dense 

 reticulation; spores globose, indistinctly i)unctulatc, blackish- 

 violet, 9 — 11 ix diameter. 



Chondrioderma ochraceum, Schroeter, Kr. FL, 124 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 v., 7, part, I., no. 1283. 



On hepatics. Silesia. 



