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NOTES ON MYCETOZOA., 
By Artuur Lister, F.L.S. 
(Puates 308-312.) 
Havine had the privilege of examining the specimens of My- 
BAe in the Kew and British Museum collections, and also those 
those which seem to me to have ea interest, malta a few 
which do not appear to have been hitherto des ; 
I should be very grateful to the readers of the Foi nal of Botany, 
who may have given attention to this group, if they would point 
out any errors into which I may have fallen, and supply any 
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study as not received, tn thie country, the close investi- 
patiod Which the remarkable Eiestoct and beauty of the organisms 
would seem to demand. 
Puysarum psirractnum Ditm. in Sturm. t. 62: Rost. Mon. 
p. 104. Didymium erythrinum C. in Grey. 1878, n. a D, Ravenelii 
B. & C. in Grev. n. 346.—Peridiis sphericis pirdag ie virescenti- 
bus j e200 subulato-gracili, aurantiaco, fi is hyalinis, —— 
p- diam. gangliis ealeareis angulosis, copiosissimis intermixtis ; 
sporis tice 7-8 » diam. intus granulosis, levibus, faligineo- 
violaceis ; stipite a ‘seen e aurantiaco-rubello, striatulo. 
Hab. in foliis puireseentibus fagi et piri in Suecia, Gallia, 
Gatieanise Ttalia et Carolina inf. Saccardo, Syl. Fung. vol. 7, 
p- me 
In abundance at Highcliff, Lyme Regis, in July, 1889, in July, 
1890, and in July, — on a rotten sycamore stump. With 
characters as under 
Pinsent red ‘ornngé, in rotten wood, asi in broad 
veins on emerging from the substratum, and maturing on the wood 
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when imperfectly matured greenish or fuliginous; gregarious 
crowded, stipitate, sometimes sessile, or confluent. Sporangium- 
wall (x 560) hyaline, delicately membranous, sprinkled with orange 
spots of thicker, more or less granular, substance ; ; Sool bee 
white discs. 14 » diam. are scattered — the surface ing in 
some sporangia), Pl. 308, fig. 1 w). Stalk translneent, in- 
tense orange, equal, owed and rugose, rising from a vwell- 
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