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surrounding district is so flat that effective roeote if practicable, 
be very costly. During the autumn, both of 1896 and gol 
C. testaceum was so abundant over many parts of the wo 
its usual habitat 
_. In like manner Physarum contextum was abundant in several 
ae of Flitwick Wood from 1898 to 1896; since the latter date it 
rainfall of several suecessive years ay have 
rendered the wood less ted to the development of this species 
and also of Chondrioderma testaceum. There were no apparent local 
causes, such as Be rees, or effective ie to produce the 
ibed. 
nother illustration i is afforded by Physar um straminipes, which, 
until gel in this district, was undescribed. It was frst 
detected on May 2nd, 1897, and during that spring and t 
summer sallowing it was abundant and generally depapated. in 
this neighbourhood. Although closely allied to P. compressum, it 
is readily distinguished in the field when once nA external differ- 
or 
Ma mle 
found near Stopsley, Beds, which was the first record after an 
Apts of three years, and the only sie apd that year.* 
he allied genus Badhamia, B. nitens was plentiful, both i = 
the siaueiatiel and fruiting stages, during the years 1892-1894 
two damp woods, principally of o trees, near Ca 
Since ind i 
— formerly the special habitats of this species. In the year 
1899 B. nitens was plentiful in a wood in Woburn Park. The only 
- strami inipes has also been observed this spring (1906) at Leagrave, 
Beds, en April 8th, ; 
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