298 A Mo7io(jraph of the Myxogastres. 



Physarmn glolndifcritia, Rost., Mon., p. 98 ; Sacc, Syll, vii., 

 1, n. 1173. 



On moss, leaves, rotten wood, &c. Sweden ; France ; Ger- 

 many. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Sj)haerocarpus glolndifcr, Bull., Champ., j). 134, t, 484, f. 3 



(1791). 

 Stemonitis globulifcra, Gmel., Syst. Nat., ii., p. 1467, n. 2 



(1791). 

 Phymrurii glohvMfcrum, Pers,, Syn., p. 175, t. 3, f. 11, 12 



(1801). 

 Trichia globulifera, D.C., Fl. Fr., 2, p. 253 (1805). 

 Diderma globuliferum, Fr., I.e., iii.^ p. 100 (1829). 



B. Sporangia sessile, j^^'^sinGdiocarj), o?' aethalioid. 



* Epis'iwre warted. 



Physarum cinereum, Rost. (figs. 71 — 73). 



Sporangia sessile on a broad base, sometimes globose, scattered 

 or crowded, at others elongated, flexuous and depressed, wall 

 rigid with lime, white ; columella absent ; capillitium abundant 

 with numerous la7'ge, irregular knots of lime connected by very 

 thin threads; spores globose, dingy violet, niimttely warted, 

 10 — 13 fj. diameter. 



Physarum cinereum, Rost., Mon., p. 102, figs. 71, 72, 85 ; 

 Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 13, figs. 71, 72, 85; Sacc, Syll, n. 1189; 

 Schroeter, p. 128; Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 75, t. 4, f. 9. 



Exsicc. — Ellis and Everhart, N. Amer. Fung., ser. II,, n. 

 2085 ; Rav., Fung. Car., 79 and 83. 



Fung. Cub. Wrightiani, 535; De Thum., Myc. Univ., 1598; 

 Holl, Schmidt and Kunze, Deutsch. Schw., 38 ; Roum., Fung. 

 Gall., 1881. 



On leaves, wood, twigs, &c. Britain (King's Cliffe, Bury St. 

 Edmund's, Bungay, Kew, Hitchin, Carlisle, Scarboro', Berwick, 

 N. Wales, Linlithgow) ; Germany; Fhdand; Sweden; Belgiimi; 



