324 A Monograpli of the Myxogastres. 



Badhamia nitens, Berk, (figs. 176 — 170). 



Sporangia globose, sessile, aggregated, Iriglit yclloui, covered 

 with minute, scale-like particles of lime ; splitting irregularly 

 above; capillitium well developed, threads thick, yellowish, 

 lime almost obsolete; spores purple, aggregated in dusters, free 

 ]Jortion coarsely warted, remainder smooth, 10 — 16 ix diameter. 



Badhamia nitens, Berk., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi., p. 153, t. 19, 

 f. 1 ; Rost., Mon, App., p. 27 (in part.). 



(Type in Herb. Berk.) 



Badhamia inauraia, Currey, Linn. Trans., xxiv. (1851), t. 25, 

 f. 8; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 28; Sacc, Syll, vii., n. 1162. 

 (Type in Brit. Mus.) 



On moss, wood, &c. Britain (Carlisle, East Bergholt, Wey- 

 bridge). 



Eeadily distinguished by the bright yellow sporangia and the 

 clustered spores. 



§ § § Spores smooth. 

 Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Rost. 



Sporangia gregarious but distant, irregular, sulrotund or reni- 

 form, about 0'7 mm. broad, 0'7 — 2 mm. long, bright ycllow-broion 

 or pallid; capillitium well developed, tubes thick, nodes 35 fx 

 broad; spores 9 — 11 /x diameter, obscure violet, smooth. 



Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Rost., Mon., p. 146 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 vii., 1, n. 1154. 



On dead leaves. Poland; Germany. 



Sporangial wall thick, rufous-brown, dehiscing in a circum- 

 scissile manner by an operculum. (Berlese in Sacc, Syll.) 



(Rostafinski's Synonym.) 

 Bhysarum Alexandrowiczii, De Bary and Rost., in Litt., Ad. 

 Alexand., l.c, p. 88 (1872). 



Badhamia verna, Rost. 

 Sporangia gregarious, dciircssed, xaricd^le in form, confluent, 

 not sinuous, wall very thin, blackish-broivn, smooth, very fragile. 



