Briefer Articles. 137. 
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_ tegard only those’ characteristics which are common to normal and 
fully-developed specimens. 
___ PHYSARUM SULPHUREUM Alb. and Schw. Consp. Fung. p. 93. tab. 6. 
fig. 1—Plate xx, figs. 5-8. 
Synonyms.—Physarum virescens Fckl. non Ditm. Physarum chrysotrich- 
wm B.&C. Physarum decipiens Curt. Badhamia decipiens (Curt.) Berk. 
Physarum inegualis Peck. ' 
Sporangia scattered, stipitate or occasionally sub-sessile, spherical, 
08-1" high. Wall granulated, bright golden-yellow. Stem, when 
present, one-half to two-thirds the height of the sporangium, blackish- 
brown. Hypothallus minute, thin, brown. Columella absent. Capilli- 
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with bright yellow granules of lime, and connected by very short, deli- 
colorless internodes destitute of lime. Spores globose, minutely 
_ Neruculose or asperate, 10.7-11.844 in diameter, brownish-violet by 
_ ‘Wansmitted light, black in the mass. 
ma ai of apple-trees, Manchester, Mass., August, 1889, W. C. 
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“hg pomledge of this species is based upon the rather meager 
Ptlon and figures by Albertini and Schweinitz above referred to, 
ee a pecimen preserved in the Schweinitz herbarium. There 
that coll a doubt that the Species described above is identical with 
ected by Schweinitz as Physarum sulphureum A.and §., an 
le hs Avs: that Schweinitz had sufficient grounds for consid- 
4 Europe “merican specimen to be identical with that found in 
This g Cles js j : 
Pecies is interesting as exhibiting the close relationship exist- 
two genera Physarum and Badhamia. en 
ing between the 
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and brilliant color of the capillitium, and the 
la, serve to separate it from the other yellow 
ysarum.—W. C. Sturcis, Vew Haven, Conn. 
TION oO : 
ee Habit X Io. ‘ “Sina Peek o> 1-4. Comatricha caespitosa n. sp.—Fig. 
— yS Fig. 3. Porticn ce it8le sporangium with capillitium and part of wall. 
% S00, ortion of capil] 2 P 
Piliitium and columella. x 240. Fig. 4. Spores. 
. 5-8. Phy 
it = Sporangia showing’ im A. and S.—Fig. 5. Habit, natural size. 
: ‘ ‘ itium, : : ways ys 
X 240, Fig, 8. Grecka: 3 or Fig. 7. Portion of capillitium 
: on the v 
| $e notes ther ioe of hot springs.—Accidentally, in looking over 
me at a ve ee 'n 1889, I found a number of references to 
--R0d deal of y hgh temperature. These caused, I remember, a 
a ied my friends as well as in“my own mind, 
, venture to place them in any journal, if not 
