Badhamia. ■ 325 



becoming lacerated during dehiscence, at length evanescent ; 

 threads of capillitium adnate, vague, white; spores hlackish- 

 hrown, 12 — 13 fi diameter, smooth. 



Badhamia vcrna, Rost., Mon., p. 145 ; Sacc, Syll, vii., 1, n, 

 331. 



(Rostafinski's Synonym.) 

 Physamm vcrnimi, Somf., in Litt., Ad. Fries, S. M., iii., p. 146 

 (1829). 



Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter. 



Sporangia sessile, about '5 mm. broad, collected in small 

 clusters or arranged in rows ; hypothallus nearly obsolete ; spor- 

 angial wall thin, hright grey ; capillitium slender, white, threads 

 irregularly nodulose ivith masses of lime, from 3 — 4 up to 12 /x 

 thick, nodes not incrassatcd ; spores not clustered, 7"5 — 9 p. 

 diameter, smooth, violet. 



Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter, Kr. Fl. Schles., p. 131 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., n. 1145. 



Badhamia melanospora, Speg. 



Sporangia sessile, densely gregarious, spherical, smooth, greyish- 

 Avhite, after the spores have disappeared, snow-white ; columella 

 absent ; tubes of capillitium rigid, united to form a compact 

 network, internodes fusiformly thickened in the centre, nodes flat- 

 tened ; spores in clusters or free, smooth, black, opaque, sub- 

 angular from mutual pressure, 15 /ix diameter, 



Badhamia melanosperma, Speg., Fung. Arg., Pug. I., p. 88 ; 

 Sacc, Syll, n. 1164. 



On rotten trunks. Argentina. 



Badhamia coadnata, Rost. 

 Sporangia very numerous, conglomerated ; sporangia spring- 

 ing from a white, well-developed hypothallus ; capillitium threads 

 snow-white, copious, rigid, aggregated in the centre toicards the 

 base of the sporangium to form an irregular columella; spores 

 globose, bright violet, epispore thick, smouih, 8 — 9 ix diameter. 



