: thallus. Colwmelia nearly reac 
962 Notks ON MYCETOZOA. 
3 attitudinis peridii attingens ; flocci capillitii lati furvi, in densum 
reticulum — in nodis conspicue triangulariter dilatate. Sac- 
cardo, Syl. Fung. p. 
Gathered iy Prof. Bayley essa at Moffat, 1879. Found also 
at Lyme Regis, Dec. characters as under : 
Plasmodium ?, atom gia fie 0:7 mm. diam., pkreerr: 
stipitate. Sporangium-wall hyaline, membran s, soon falling 
a rh 
ab 
Stalk black, shining, subulate or cylindric 
Columella cylindrical, truncate or a stat half the ieiotis 
of the sporangium. Capillitium black, spreading from the upper 
t of the columella in strong, rarely anastomosing, sparingly 
forked threads; the ultimate branchlets colo —— Spores grey, 
strongly som cia with pose spines, 15-20 p dia 
mn wood. Pl. 310, fig. 2. 
There is is a specimen in tts Kew collection, No. 642, from Rev. 
W. Colenso, New Zealand, received Dec. 1885. In this the faa 
reach 1 mm. diam., and have stout stalks ; columella swollen, two- 
thirds the height of the sporangium ; capillitium diffuse, cinereous. 
The specimen has been penetrated with mould, apparently at the 
with normal development. It is evidently L. — of 
Berkeley, with the a spores peculiar to this sp 
TEMONITIS SPLENDENS Rost. Sluzowe, p. 195; Kar = ye. 
Fenn. iv. p. 122. =-Patidiie cespitosis, stipitatis, hecothedia fusco- 
atro amine, cylindraceis, obtusis, a ugacissimis ; colu- 
mella apicem peridii fere attingente ; stipi te filiformi, nigro, nitido, 
longo ; masculis capillitii superfacialibus spora triplo quadruplove 
panies: ; sporis levibus, 4-8 » diam., intense vel subatro-fuscis. 
ab igna pinea in Fennia, Saccardo, Syl. Fung. p. 398. 
A specimen in the Kew collection, No. 715, from Twycross, 
ficial Recahabee to S. fusca. The Kew collection contains an 
talian specimen from Saccardo, with a gathering of 8. fusca in the 
same paper, both under the latter name. It appears to be frequent 
in other parts of the world; at Kew there are five specimens from 
New Zealand, five from Australia, six from South Africa, one from 
or ay 
5. morgani i Peck., but all are embraced by the characters of Bloxam’s 
specimen given below. I have typical forms of S. splendens, and 
a. ist S. fusca, gathered by J. J. Lister in the Pacific Islands 
n 
Plasmodium ? , in rotten wood. Jess a about 14 mm. 
_ Sporangia cylindrical, obtuse, purplish bro n, closely aggregated, 
stipitate; the shining black stalks rising ps a purplish — 
: the apex of the sporangium.. 
um (* 560) of purplish brown threads, the principal 
