916 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NOTES ON SWISS MYCETOZOA. 
By A. anp G. Listrrr. 
Tue following species were collected during the last few years 
in Switzerland, on ae groun tee oe frequently in the neighbour- 
hood of meltin They are interesting as showing certain 
characteristics Be sepparenily to yas alpine surroundings, namely, 
great variation in the shape and size of the sporangia, in the nature 
a the eee of calcium carbonate, in the structure of the 
and often es the large size of the spores. This alpine 
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Payaarum VIRESCENS Ditmar var. ALPINUM, n.var. On the 
under side of a leaf of Sieversia montana Spreng, above Arolla, 
Vallais, hee! m. alt., July, 1907 (G. Lister). The specimen con- 
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sists of t ompact groups of ochraceous yellow sporangia, 
curv ed mnt. 
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capillitium shows abundant and rather large simple or branching 
yellow lime-knots, connected by firm hyaline threads with broad 
membranous expansions; the spores under a high magnifying 
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measure 10 to 15 » diam. n almost similar specimen, but with 
more globose sporangia, was gathered at the Blue Cafion, Cali- 
fornia, by Dr. Harkness, over forty years go , and was named b 
the late W. Phillips “ Badhamia inaurata” ; it is referred to in the 
the feces sporangia with double walls, ‘the more ea capillitium, 
and the er, and, on the whole, larger spores; we therefore 
distinguish the ania as var. alpinum of P. virescens. 
2. dscns: Abundant on turf and stones near melting 
snow in many pieces in the Cantons Vallais and Grisons, in the 
months of June and July, 1905, 1907. These are similar forms to 
Sommerfelt’s type, gathered near Christania in 1827; the long 
flexuous plasmodi s are larger than we usually meet with in 
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Pers. os) ee iodeteagiabable except by the larger Bat rather 
darker n this character may vary in different sporangia 
of one development, and on the whole it would seem more satis- 
Poe es pe del ‘Fjault Lt ‘1 gets for eaten 
Bd. 6 Not 7 “(1308). 
