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entitled to specific rank, and our provisional name must be 
suppressed. in} 
Futigo exuirsospora List. Mr. Saunders collected this species 
on straw at Woodside, Beds, in Sept. 1903. It is essentially the 
same form as his previous gathering at Stopsley Common in Sept. 
1899, already recorded,* only differing in the less even surface of 
the sthalium. There is little true cortex, and the individual 
sporangia are much more clearly defined; the snow-white lime 
knots are often combined into a central pseudo-columella, connected 
with the sporangium-wall by delicate hyaline threads. i 
typical than the specimen from Yattenden figured in this journal,} 
but it supports the conclusion that the latter is a form of I’, ellipso- 
spora. e spores are ellipsoid, and measure 14 x 10 p. 
TrricHaMPHORA PEzIZzoiEA Jungh. Dr. Jahn has sent us several 
specimens of this species collected by Dr. A. Méller in Blumenau, 
Brazil, in Oct. 1901.t Dr. Moller describes it as growing on 
Lentinus villosus, “the sporangia hanging in clusters on stalks which 
are attached to the gills of the Lentinus.’’ The specimens were 
preserved in spirit, and we cannot tell whether the slender eapilli- 
tium contained lime. Messrs. Pavillard and Lagarde have recorded 
the appearance of the species in abundance at Montpellier in April, 
1902,§ on decaying Auricularia messenterica, which appears to 
its frequent host. They have favoured us with a generous supply 
of the growth. The capillitium has the character of a Badhamia, 
as they have shown in their plate; on the other hand, specimens 
from Java have capillitium of the Physarwn type with round 
lime-knots and slender hyaline threads; others, again, from different 
parts of the world, have limeless capillitium. Messrs. Pavillard 
and Lagarde have described the species under the name of Physarum 
pezizoideum, but, considering the constancy in the shape of t € 
sporangia and the inconstancy of the character of the capillitium, 
it is peeate that Junghuhn’s naming will generally be allowed to 
stand. 
brownish yellow, in another bright orange-brown, an 
third a more dull brown; Mr. Bilgram suggests that conditions of 
light or shade may affect the colour. The spores measure 6-7 
diam.; the slender capillitium is like that in former specimens, 
except that the threads are less beaded with brown lime granules. 
C. asteromwes List.|| A second example of this species was 
gathered on fir-needles in the gardens of Sir T, Hanbury, La 
* Journ. Bot. 1901, p. 84. 
+ Op. cit. 1899, p. 148. 
{ Jahn, Ber. Deutsch. Bot, Ges, xx. (1902) p. 273. 
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|| Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 209. 
