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membranous expansions without lime; in nineteen sporangia the 
capillitium is of the form characterizing the var. granuliferum, 
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numerous many-rayed chambers, each enclosing one or 
more calcareous nodules; these remarkable forms blend into one 
another. The spores vary from 10 to 16 » diam., the majority 
measure 14 yp. 
As British representatives of this species we have two speci- 
mens of the var. Chailletii, both of winter growth; one was 
gathered on dead leaves at Failand, Somerset, in December, 1898, 
y Miss Agnes Fry, the other at Crediton, Devon, in February, 
1907, by Mrs. Montague, who found it in abundance “ developing 
specimens the inconspicuous grey or drab sporangia are sessile or 
shortly stalked, hemispherical or subglobose, from 0°5 to 1 mm. 
diam., but sometimes form long plasmodiocarps ; they are clus- 
the sporangium-wall, with crystalline scales and nodules of lime; 
the columella is hemispherical or shortly clavate, and, together 
with the stalk, is filled with crystalline nodules; the capillitium is 
of abundant, Sparingly-branched, purplish-brown threads, and 
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the type of L. Chailletii Rost. from Hauenstein, Bohemia (leg. 
Opiz), but have the columella more strikingly developed ; they still 
more closely resemble the specimen collected “on meadows after 
snow,” near ro: A 
Meylan, and deseribed fully by Prof. Schinz (J. c. p. 68). 
Prof. Farlow sends us a plasmodiocarp 9 mm. in length of the 
typical form of L. Carestianwm, gathered by him on the leaves of 
Taxus at Chocorna, N.H., in July, 1907; as far as we know, this 
is the first record of the species from the Eastern States. 
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plasmodiocarps, 1:5 to 2 mm. long, by 0-5 to 0-7 mm. broad; the 
sporangium-walls are membranous and fragile ak 
