MYCETOZOA FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 463 
Gharwal Himalaya, and in the adjacent parts of Tibet. In referring 
to the latter classic her barium, Sir Joseph Hooker remarks that it is 
‘‘the most valuable for its size that has ever been distributed from 
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economics. 
MYCETOZOA FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 
By Arrnur Lister, F.R.S. 
Mr. Joun Jacxon, of the Washington State University at Seattle, 
has directed his attention to the Mycetozoa of that district during 
the last two years, and has submitted to me his collection, con- 
sisting of sixty-six specimens, representing eighteen species and 
three well-marked varieties. The chief interest attachin ng to these 
gatherings lies in their being, as I believe, the first that are eet 
from the great North-west State of the Union. The list will no 
doubt be largely added to, for we miss pi abaeetesere te of ee 
genera which we should expect to be not uncommon where the 
climate is apparently so favourable to their a6 owth as in the 
State of Washington. ‘The names of the species submitted are as 
follows ‘Ledisi ‘pus vernicosus Link, Lepidoderma tigrinum Rost., 
Comatricha obtusata Preuss, Lamproderma physarotdes Rost., Cr ibraria 
aurantiaca Schrad., me ag. Bet Casparyt Rost., Trichia peti 
Pers., 1. affinis De "Bar ry, 7’. scabra Rost., T, varia Pers., 
Rost., 7'. contorta var. ions iste: T. fallax eis. hee Botr ytis Pore. 
var. a yenuina, var. d subfusca, var. ¢ munda, Hemitrichia clavata 
Rost., H. Karstenii (Rost.) List., Arcyria ferruginea Saut., Proto- 
trichia flagellifera a Lycogala miniatum Pers. 
Taken as a whole, the specimens show little or no variation 
from the devon ei and are mostly nrg Se dead 
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sporangia more free—that is to say, they are not so densely com- 
pacted. They resemble in this respect the var. simplex of the allied 
species Tubulina fragiformis Pers. The columella is also curiously 
branched in the upper part, instead of rising as a straight column 
