148 NOTES ON MYCETOZOA. 
Fuxico ocuracea Peck. Mr. Fries has submitted to me a speci- 
men of this species, the first we have recognized of European growth. 
The ethalium has no distinct cortex ; the surface is tesselated with 
the rounded tops of the component sporangia ; the capillitium has 
almost the character of a Badhamia in the numerous branching 
yellow lime-knots, with few connecting hyaline threads ; the spores 
are dark purple-brown, spinose, 9-10 » diam. ‘This specimen 
corresponds with those received from the United States, with even 
less of the hyaline element in the capillitium than in Dr. Rex’s 
type, and with rather smaller spores. 
seated on a white hypothallus spreading in membranous interwoven 
folds on dead leaves and beech-husks. The walls of the convolute 
sporangia are membranous, charged with innate clusters of white 
lime granules; the capillitium consists of a network of confluent 
white lime-knots with few hyaline threads, and has much of a Bad- 
hamia character ; the spores are violet-brown, minutely spinulose, 
and almost globose, 10-11 x 9-10 » diam. A somewhat similar 
ecorticate form, though consisting of smaller ethalia composed of 
more compacted sporangia, was received from Mr. F. H. Roberts, of 
Manhattan i 
found on “ stipules and leaves of Quercus Muhlenbergii”’ ; the capil- 
litium is like that above-described, except that the hyaline threads 
are more numerous; the spores of both gatherings are exactly 
ike. The two specimens present considerable difficulty, but 1 
would suggest that they are forms of F’. ellipsospora, a species not 
. B iti s ad 
therto recorded as 8 The object b- 
tion the absence of a cortex to the xthalium, and the almost 
globose spores. Wi d to the first objection, it ma 
cinereum Schwein. (syn. Physarum ellipsosporum Rost.), 10-12 
x1 ; iken, S. Carolina, B. M. 845, 11 x 9°5 p»; 
from Cuba, type of Badhamia coadnata Rost., Strasburg coll., 
10-11 x 10 »; from Java, Penzig, 10 x 8-9 » (Prof. Penzig's 
measurement is 18 x 105 »); from Antigua, W. Cran, 11-12 x 
