464 MYCETOZOA FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 
reaching to the apex of the sporangium, and connected by hori- 
zontal processes with the sporangium-wall; but it is a single 
mie ea and probably to some extent abnormal. 
The specimen . Trichia favoginea has some free and scattered 
d ants eas narrow bands, are quite typical. T. scabra is 
seven specimens with the slight variations in the structure of the 
sporangium-wall we are accustomed to meet with. There is one 
specimen of 7’. contorta var. a, with dark east o brown sporangia, 
and with typical ‘capillitinm and spores. T. contorta var. inconspicua 
is pea by two gatherings; the sporangia are paler in colour 
the last mentioned, and the elaters hav ve the shamicloneal 
Karstenii is exactly like that of J’ contorta var. a described above 
in every respect, except that the a consists of a continuous 
web, and not of free elaters. 7’. fallax is evidently a commo 
species at Seattle, as it is elsewhere; t there are eight specimens 
showing some variation in the size and colour of the sporangia; 
@ spores are desis reticulate. J’. Botrytis is represented by 
three ‘of its a genuina is fairly typical, but the elaters 
are not so vipucd in the arrangement of the spiral bands as is 
usual; they approach those Vv wo specimens of 
ven examples are sent of var. y subfusca; these are of much 
interest as being identical with the type of TJ. subfusca Rex, 
from the Adirondack Mts., N.Y., named and described by the 
late Dr. Rex in Proe. Acad. Nat. Hist. Phil. 1890, p. 192, and 
issued by Ellis & rebut No. 2495, from material supplied by 
Dr. Rex. With the exception of the type apes’ we had 
not met with precisely this form before, and t mber_ and 
constancy of Mr. Jackol’s s gatherings at Seattle nace Dr. Rex’s 
determination; but that it is entitled to specific rank more than 
either of the other varieties of 7. Botrytis is not obvious. 
Prototrichia flagellifera, Before Mr. Jackol obtained this species 
at Seattle, we liad no record of its occurrence in the New World; 
it had been previously received only from Britain, Norway, Sweden, 
and Tasmania. Mr. Jackol has meg two gatherings : in one the 
sporangia are stalked : in the other they are sessile; they show 
ee development, and the spiral absekouings on the threads of 
the capillitium are remarkably sharp. 
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