NOTES ON MYCETOZOA 187 
2 Mr. C. Bucknall kindly submitted to us a glycerine- end 
pbaere to of Oligonema furcatum Bucknall ;* it corresponds with 
T. lutescens in the character of the sporangium-wall and also 
= the thickness of the elaters in the faint say markings, and 
the spores; the ange are, however, scanty and short, the 
shortest ego ag nly 50 » long, and either simple or forked. In 
Mr. Bucknall favoured us with a specimen recently 
agen in the same spot at Abbot's Leigh in which he had 
i m v. 1890; 
obtained his first specimen in No ; the sporangia are 
bright chrome-yellow, and measure about 
elaters are much longer than in his previous gathering, though 
some found not more than 70 » in length; in the spiral 
ame species. ge ring the last Abbot’s Leigh specimen with 
tat acm Mr. Petch , above referred to, we can detect no specific 
difference, for the greater length of the elaters in the latter can 
be of little weight, considering how widely this character varies in 
he genus Trichia; we are therefore of arm that Oligonema 
furcatum and T. lutescens are forms of one spec 
T. varia Pers. As an instance of the varying length of the 
elaters in the genus Trichia referred to in the last note, we may 
mention a specimen of T. varia gathered on the Undereliff, Lyme 
Regis, in March, 1902; the sporangium examined is of the frequent 
substipitate form, and the sporangium-wall is marked with the 
characteristic comma-shaped thickenings, but the capillitium is that 
of a Hemitrichia ; there are indeed a few free elaters, but it almost 
al d 
almost transversely to the th fem often they are incomplete, and 
reduced to half rings; in som e parts, however, they show the 
typical spiral of two bands ; the spores are normal. 
Oviconema FLAvipuM Peck. This species was found in some 
abundance in August, 1902, near Horsham, Sussex, by Miss A. 
Hibbert-Ware, on the under side of a mossy alder log, half of which 
angia were loosely ee to the rotten wood and moss. They 
are either subglobose and heaped over one another to form large 
clusters, or po atten shortly cylindrical and regularly arranged 
in one layer; the sporangium-wall is translucent yellow, oe 
marked with minute close thickenings arranged in short w 
lines, which give an effect of delicate pr ieace. The occtant 
yellow elaters are long and often branched, but a few are short; 
they measure about 4 » diam., and show occasional swellings and 
expansions from 8 to 10 » diam.; they are marked with lines of 
minute warts, forming irregular spirals, which pass from the left 
above to the right below when the thread is viewed horizontally— 
. isies oiiogs: p- 173. 
