- 1892.] A New Order of Schizomycetes. 401 
liar to the other species, and as in Myxobacter aureus this 
seems to be lost as the rod-masses rise to produce cysts. 
Although so conspicuous a form, this species does not appear 
to have been recorded since its discovery by Ravenel, Cooke 
and Saccardo merely quoting Berkeley’s publication in the ref- 
erences above cited. As a matter of curiosity Berkeley’s 
description is appended. 
“Chondromyces B. & C. Stipes e floccis compactus 
famosus induratus, spore apicales.—600. Chondromyces cro- 
tatus B, & C. On decayed melons. Car. Inf. no. 1335. Stem 
closely compacted, orange, subcartilaginous, branched, the 
branches more or less divaricate, nodular at the apex; spores 
longate-ovate with a very short pedicel.” Grev., Zc. 
_ CHONDROMYCES AURANTIACUS (B. & C.)—Plates XXIII, 
XIV, figs. 12-19 and 25-28 
Stigmatella aurantiaca: B. & C., in Berk. Intr. Crypt. Bot., p. 313, fig. 70, b. 
. Grevillea, vol. 111, p. 97. Cooke, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci.,-vol. 1, p. 193. 
Sylloge Fung., rv, p. 680. 
Kalchbr. & Cke. Grevillea 1x, p. 23, pl. 135, 
. (1880). Saccardo Sylloge Fung. tv, p. 576, 
wlidospora: Berk. & Broome, on the Fungi of Ceylon, Jour. Linn. 
y) xiv, p. 96, plate rv, fig. 16 (1873). Sacc. Sylloge tv, p. 571. 
onies flesh colored, distinctly reddish. Rods large, ta- 
somewhat, normally straight, rounded at either ex- ° 
Y 7-15X.6-Im, average 7x.5«. Cystophore hyaline 
h-colored, stout, straight, simple or rarely furcate. Av- 
height 200M. Cysts at first stalked, then sessile, oval 
ptical or rounded in outline, often irregular in size and 
bright orange colored when dry, becoming chestnut 
‘when kept moist for a considerable period, borne in 
¢ numbers and forming globose heads at the extremity 
_cystophore. 
Pies 
member of the group and must have been met with 
one who has sought for Myxomycetes on decaying 
where though very minute it is conspicuous from its bright 
Although easily cultivated on nutrient agar, unlike 
us it rarely produces well formed cystophores and 
this medium, though cultivable on its ordinary 
Without difficulty. 
its Synonymy, Polycephalum aurantiacum K. & Ck. 
Loum rhytidospora B. & Br. have been included 
