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Badhamia utricularis, Berk., Linn. Trans., xxi., p. loS (1801); 



Cooke, Hdbk., n. 1147. 

 Physancm 'mclalcucum, Nyl., p. 126 (1859). 



Badhamia granulifera, Pliill. 



Gregarious, but not crowded, sessile on a broad base, liemi- 

 spherical or slightly elongated, subdepressed, wall thick, with 

 croiuded, large, flattened, glistening, pale hrown scales of hicar- 

 honate of lime ; inner wall very thin, iridescent ; splitting irregu- 

 larly above ; mass of spores blackish-purple ; columella slwrtly 

 cylindrical or sulglohose ; capillitiuni copious, forming an irregular 

 network, passing from the columella to the inner wall, threads 

 with numerous, irregular flattened inflations containing minute 

 granules of lime ; spores at first in clusters ; spherical when free, 

 with a small circular portion of the wall thinner and convex, 

 minutely luarted all over, 18 — 20 /x diameter. 



Badhamia gramdifera, Phillips, in Herb. 



Didymium granulifcrum, Phill., Grev., vol. v., p. 114, t. 88, 

 f. 1, a—f', Sacc, Syll., vii., 1, n. 1316. 



(Type in Herb., Phill.) 



On herbaceous stems. San Francisco. 



A very beautiful and remarkable species, externally resembling 

 a Lepidodermct in the large, distinct, scale-like patches of bicar- 

 bonate of lime. Sporangia circular or elongated, slightly de- 

 pressed, 2 — 3 mm. long. 



Badhamia Fuckeliana, Rost. 



Sporangia discoid, 1 mm. broad, stipitate, frequently umbili- 

 cate above or below ; stem even, elongated, coloured ; spores 

 blackish-violet; epispore delicately spinulose, 9 — 12 ju. diameter. 



a. gemiincL Sporangia 1 mm. diameter, stem 1 mm. long. 



/3, gracilis. Sporangia o mm. diameter, stem 1 — \b mm. 

 long. 



Badhamia Fuckeliana, Rost., Mon. App., p. 2; Sacc, Syll., 

 vii., 1, n. 1148. 



Trickatnpliora Fuclccliana, Rost., Mon., p. 138. 



