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MYCETOZOA OF THE SOUTH MIDLANDS. 
By James Saunpers, A.L.S. 
Tne lists appended to the present communication are supple- 
mentary to the one which appeared in this Journal in January, 
1893 (pp. 10-18), and are indices of observations toe during the 
Crouch, of Cainhoe, Beds, my son Edgar, and myself. In addition 
we have had the advantage of three or four visits to this district of 
Mr. A. Lister and Miss G. Lister, the latter of whom, while in our 
mpany, eaters Diachea scheme at Flitwick, Beds, a first 
Europe. 
record for 
The area iilceers by these investigations may be roughly 
described as being within a ten mile radius of Luton. The 
extremes are Flitwick, Beds, to the aoe Wheathaapeee- 
i 
monograph only about 110 species are enumerated as British, 
it will be readily conceded ae ‘in this district is peculiarly 
rich in these organisms, or that it has been well worked. Mr. 
Lister has also recorded 70 species for Be Epping Forest district, 
pt 
Species sind varieties :— 6, 
Physarum straminipes Lister (see Journ. Bot. 1898, 163, t. 38 
g. 
P, ierwide Rost. 
P. didermoides var. lividum Lister (I. ¢. 161, t. 886, fig. 1). 
P, vernum Somm. First British recor 
Badhamia ovispora Racib. First British “yeoord. 
Didymium Trochus Lister (1. c. 164, t. 886, fig. 1). for E 
Fuligo ellipsospora Lister. Sept. 1899. First record os Nai 
All of the foregoing, except Physarum vernum Somm., have up to 
the present eo die om y tie such situations. It sho “ octal 
or, be stated that the term ‘“ straw-heaps” includes ae aul a 
t only of cereals, but also of peas, beans, and the other crop 
which form the staple of English agriculture. 5 
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