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Somerset ; it was sent to Mr. Saunders for identification, who 
obligingly forwarded it to us. It resembles the Welsh gathering 
in every respect except that the numerous wide- angled lime- knots of 
the capillitium are more ochraceous and _ orange in colour, and 
thus siaikesioe with our American specimens. 
ERMA PHYSAROIDES Rost. We At been accustomed to 
associate this species with fir woods; but in the romantic gorge at 
Llan-y-Mawddwy, before referred to, it grows in profusion on 
the wet perpendie ular slaty rocks facing the north. During ten 
ar from 
angen wee mostly spherical, and the pes gon 
brown character of the type; the spores were of the normal ae 
capricious in the times of its appearing; for a sh eriod it is in 
ce over a large area, and then ge A age for mon eS 
Meethar: in our previous autumn visits we me t wit e in perfect 
con y remains told of its havi ‘supe plentiful 
a any ing before. 
Kouinostetium minutum De Bary. This minute species appeared 
in Bainter, Cie on a dead herbaceous stalk (apparently burdock) 
brought by Miss A. L. Smith from Annan, Dumfries 
days sos larang os had placed the stalk in a moist cultivating 
chamber at her house in London. On discovering the mucor-like 
growth ey at once recognized it as the same species as that collected 
by her near Hereford in 1902, which was reported in this Journal 
as the first recorded British gathering of extectidinn: she kindly 
forwarded the specimen to us. At 8.20 on the afternoon of the day 
its arrival, a sporangium vergeaees 2 about eighty spores was 
e 1 
closed elastically. At 4.24 flagellate swarm-cells were in active 
dancing movement, the nucleus showing as usual at the base of the 
flagellum ; others had assul med a » line ear — and crept rapidly 
snail cies of Mycetozoa 
on the surface of the glass, S fagelln being i ind din advance. 
che 
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5.85 several daughter swarm-cells had produced a flagellum, though 
e greater number retained the amceboid movement acquired after 
