NOTES ON MYCETOZOA. 151 
‘Crrpraria viouacrA Rex, This beautiful but imconspicuous 
species was found by Mr. Cran at Rhynie, in November, 1898, in 
fine condition. ‘The specimen corresponds with the wpe "from 
Rex, and with the gatherings in Buckinghamshire by Mr. Sensiflatia 
It is the third record of the occurrence of the species in Europe. 
Linpsiapia TusuLINA Fr. In September, 1898, several. ethalia 
of this species were gathered at Llan-y-Mawddwy, on firwood ; 
they are argillaceous in colour, and the surface is apr with 
the shining membranous tops of the component spor, 
Tricuia verrucosa Berk. Miss Roberts vate this baiteared 
at Llan-y-Mawddwy in January, 1899. The specim bles 
the New Zealand type in the sporangia being clustered ew: g more 
together on a common membranous stalk about 1 mm.long. It is 
the second British gathering we know.o 
sde Bary. In February last we received by post from 
antes sporangia became yellow, while those on the margin of 
th tch remained ie: eventually most of these noguter the 
kof colour, but others never recovered from the shock of the 
journey and dried into hard balls. On examination, it was eat 
that the elaters of the central sporangia were perfectly formed, with 
regular spiral bands; but in many of those on the margin the 
ers were beset with rings and strong scattered spines, the spiral 
bands being either absent or imperfect ; ; the apices of the poate: 
often terminated abruptly, or were bifurcate with diverging point 
The spare? associated with both normal and abnormal elaters were 
of the 7’. afinis type. We have known a growth of this species 
that had been caught by frosty weather to produce similar abnormal 
elaters in all the sporangia. is is an instance of how external 
conditions apart from climate may affect the development of capil- 
litium. To those who are accustomed to collect Mycetozoa and to 
mature unripe sporangia in a moist chamber, such experience is 
not unfamiliar. Among species in which variation in the capil- 
litium is frequent, Prototrichia flagellifera and Enerthenema elegans 
are examples of great ar gree to disturbance. may, how- 
species on the ~~ of some divergence in the capillitium from 
the usual character 
T. Bor sy var. MuNDA.* We have a typical example of 
this form, gathered by Dr. Sturgis at Shelburne, N.H., U.S.A., in 
October, 
EMITRICHIA CHRYSOSPORA List. A good specimen of this beau- 
pt species was obtained at Beaminster, Dorset, on the leaves and 
talks of ivy, under meme in FY «3 1898. The remarkable 
: : Sonn: Bot. 1897, 216. 
