184 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
gated the collection of Mycetozoa in the Museum of the Royal 
Botanical ser ope Berlin, and came upon a number of specimens 
brought by . Ule from Blumenau; among these was one of 
D. inter eehie ‘Schroet. which he recognized as identical with that 
from Dr. Méller; the specimens had been examined by Schroeter, 
who described them in MS., iving D. intermedium as a new species ; 
after Schroeter’s ee Henn nings published an account of them in 
Hedwigia.* Although Schroeter’s description is short, yet with the 
specimen before us ee is accurate as far as it goes, except that he 
speaks of the columella as wanting ; Jahn correctly gives it as 
flattened, and figures it so in his plate. We have Dr. Jahn’s 
permission to make this explanation ae to withtca® the name 
D, excelsum. The species is allied to D. efusum, differing in the 
tall growth, the deeply umbilicate sporangia, the fla ttened, not 
prominent, columella, the smooth stalk, and essentially in the 
e ye 
there is one of this suena Ne 1770 in 1 the solleeas) marked 
** 804 D. Mer Schroet. n.sp. Blumenau, Ap. 188 
STemoniris rerrucinea Ehr, Dr. Jahn has recently slusidated 
the et hatoe of the correct naming of this species, and gives 
the result of his investigation in the following Degpncnaty ast uel 
neighbourhood of Berlin;} he gives a list of the dining 
characters of the hae species of Stemonitis known to him 
culata = 8. fusca, S. ferr uginea, aud S. ee ian emg ward 
ier in ae reel ‘ ‘ magnis, primo albis, dein fuscis et atrofuscis, 
as S. Smith ise Macb.; it is also ceases from S. ferruginea by othe 
good characters, especialy the long black stalk; the name S. Snithii, 
owever, is not justified, and only arose from ‘the later authors not 
che referred ae Ehrenberg. I find see renal 8 Peeper type in 
aan oe —_nne 
Heawigia, Xxxyv. p. 20 
Abh. Bot. Ver. “Branden. xly. p. 164. 
t Syl. Myc. Berol. auct. Dr. C. G. Ehrenberg. Berolini, 1818, p. 25. 
