NOTES ON MYCETOZOA 1381 
at Chaunl End, near Luton, in June, 1902. The sporangia are 
similar to those of his former gathering i in Sept. 1899.* _A point 
of interest was the frequent occurrence in the capillitium of the 
oes brown membranous expansions 5 ponoe * in a Swedish speci- 
n from Mr. Fries, mentioned in our for paper. 
P. auriscaLprum Cooke. We have been favoured by Dr. Jahn with 
an example of this species gathered by Dr. Max Nordhausen, July, 
1897, on an apple- tree at Vogelsdorf, near Ritdersdorf, ernie oi t 
gar ious, about0-5mm. dia m., yellow, 
and rugose “from unequal lime deposits, sessile, or on short orange- 
brown stalks ; the capillitium consists of large, irregularly branching 
yellow lime- knots connected by rather scanty hyaline threads ; % 
1p dia 
corded. It agrees essentially with Cooke’s type from S. Carolina, } 
and only differs in the hyaline threads of the capillitium being 
rather more numerous. Dr. Jahn had named it Badhamia decipiens, 
and there was much to support this determination; indeed, the 
division between the two species is somewhat arbitrary; yet, 
accepting the view that the capillitium of B. decipiens is destitute 
of hyaline threads, it comes under the head of P. auriscalpium.§ 
P. Diverma Rost. Messrs. Pavillard and Lagarde have obligingly 
sent us an example of this species from Montpellier.|| It fren: 
Saas of long plasmodiocarps, but there are a few and 
isolated sporangia. The outer calcareous layer of the sperniigiiiels 
California, leg. Gardener, May, 1903. In Bence 1900, w 
received three specimens of a similar type from Mr. J. Ja en, 
gathered by him in that year in the neighbourhood of Seattle in 
the State of Washington, U.S.A. The ~— was abundant on 
dead leaves and twigs in Wanstead Park, Essex, in Nov. 1903, 
together with P. bivalve, from which it is not cunts easily distin- 
guished in the field. 
P. mneum R. HE. Fries. We are indebted to Mr. R. EH. Fries 
for a fine exaitins of this species collected by him at Tarija, Santa 
Anna, Bolivia, July 25, 1902, of which he has published a full 
description in the account of his South geen collections.4/ We 
are satisfied that it is the same species as the gathering by Mr. 
eee in Dominica, recorded in this meat under the provisional 
e of P. murinum var. eneum.** abundant material and 
meer perfect form obtained by Mr. Fries prove that it is clearly 
* Journ. Bot. 1901 
+ Abh. Bot. Ver. vay, Sas xlv. p. 163. 
t Brit. Mus. Cat. Myc. Pl. xxiiis. 
15. 
ull. Soc. Mye. Fr. t. xix. fase. 2 
*| Arkiy for Botanik, Bd. i. p. 62, Sick, 1903. 
** Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 117, pl. 385, fi 
