Bddluiniia. 323 



Badhamia irregularis, C. and E. 



Scattered, sessile ; sporangia suborbicular or confluent, at 

 length hlackish-hrowii ; spores brown, globose, asjKO'ulate, 10 /:a 

 diameter. 



Badhamia irregularis, Cooke and Ellis, 



On pine wood. N. America. 



I have seen no sjjecimen of the present imperfectly described 

 species. 



§ § Spores in clusters, free, surface wartcd, remainder smooth. 



Badhamia papaveracea, Berk, and Rav. 



Sporangia usually densely gregarious, with a few scattered 

 marginal individuals, hemispherical or irregularly polygonal 

 from mutual pressure, sessile, or with a rudimentary stem, wall 

 smooth or rugulose, white, greyish, or yellowish, iridescent when 

 empty ; capillitium usually dense, white, threads with large 

 nodular or interstitial swellings containing lime, combined to 

 form an irregular network ; mass of spores hlacldsh-purple, spores 

 at first in clusters of 8 — 7, triangularly jryramidal, with a 

 rounded base which corresponds to the free portion of the spore, 

 and is covered with minute warts, the remainder smooth, pale 

 lilac or brownish-lilac, 9 — 10 /x diameter. 



Badhamia papaveracea. Berk, and Rav,, Grev,, vol, ii,, p. QQ 

 (1873); Rost., Mon,, p. 147; Sacc, Syll,, vii,, 1, n, 1152, 

 (Type in Herb. Berk,, Kew, n. 10704.) 



Badhamia pallida, Berk,, Linn, Trans., xxi., p, 153, t. 19, f, 2; 

 Sacc, Syll,, n. 1153 (in part,), 



(Type in Herb. Berk,, 10790,) 



JS'.mcc.— Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 1214 (as Badhamia hyalina, 

 p, 320). 



On wood, &c. Britain (East Bergholt, Weybridge) ; U. States. 



Allied to B. nitens, which differs in the bright yellow spor- 

 angial wall, and the much more coarsely warted free portion of 

 the spores. 



