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which, however, has different female flowers, the calyx not being 
accrescent. Blachia and Dimorphocalyx have a similar accrescent 
é 
described a good deal resembles in leaf and inflorescence, has a- 
cupular calyx to its male flowers, and 10-20 stamens, of which the 
outermost at least possess free filaments. 
Description or Prater 471 
(Figs. 1 and 7a, nat. size; the rest more or less magnified.) 
Figs. 1-6. Cratystylis conocephala.—1. View of upper part of a flowering and 
fruiting specimen. 2. A flowering head slightly enlarged. 3. A floret. 4. Two 
of the free anthers, very shortly appendaged at base. 5. A style with its two 
flattened unappendaged arms: this shows the anthers in their natural position, 
viz. separated from each other and applied to the swollen style. 6. Achene and 
Figs. 7-13. Nepenthandra lanceolata. — 7a. The plant at time of flowering. 
7b. A female flower of which the perianth-segments have already become en- 
larged. 8. A male flower. 9. e flower opened. 10. The gynecium. 11. 
The same opened, showing the — ovule. 12. View of the capsule enclosed 
3. A seed. 
in the accrescent calyx. 13. 
NOTES ON MYCETOZOA. 
By A. anp G. Lister. 
CuonprioperMa ocnraceum Schroet. and LeprpopeRMA TIGRINU 
Rost. In Sept. 1904, we visited the wooded ravine on the property 
of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Bradford, at Llan-y-Mawddwy, N. Wales, 
ere in 1 
as probably a form of Lepidoderma tiarinum Rost, During our ten 
days’ stay we had a favourable opportunity for observing the develop- 
es in question from plasmodium to ripe fruit. 
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yellow pl b 
cushions of liverwort, Dicranum, and other mosses; every succeed. 
ing day disclosed freshly matured sporangia in curved ochraceous 
iocarps, often forming rings round the moss-leaves; they 
contained the purple-grey spores and profuse purple capillitium 
previously described. Although Prof. Farlow had twice found this 
Chondrioderma form associated with Lepidoderma tigrinum in the 
i States, we had failed to discover any trace of normal 
L, tigrinum on our former visits to Wales; on the present occasion, 
however, during the last week of our stay it appeared in some abun- 
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arose from orange-yellow plasmodium on Sphagnum, Dicranum 
