BADHAMIA.] 



PHYSABACEjE. 



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C. Capillitium. without lime-knots. 



Sporangium-wall of two layers more or less com- 

 bined. (9) ClIONDEIODERMA. 



Fig, 17. — Chandrioderma testaoeum Eost. 



a. Group of three sporangia ; in the upper one the 

 double wall is broken away in part and the 

 columella exposed. Magnified 9 times. 



J. Portion of the outer and inner layers of the 

 sporangium-wall ; to the latter the capillitium 

 threads are attached : three spores. Magnified 

 170 times. 



Fig. 17. 



Sporangium-wall of one layer, fragile; sporangia 

 saucer-shaped. (10) Trichamphoea. 



Fig. 18. — Tricliampliora pezixoidea Jungh. 

 a. Group of sporangia. Magnified 5J times. 



Capillitium with two spores, 

 times. 



Magnified 140 



D. Lime confined to the stalk and columella, sporangium-wall 

 membranous. (11) Diach^a. 



Fig. 19. — Diaelicea^ elegans Fries. 



Two sporangia, the one entire, the other deprived 

 of the spores and showing capillitium and colu- 

 mella. Magnified 22 times. 



Fig. 19. 



Genus 2. — BADHAMIA Berkeley, in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi., p.l53 

 (1852). Sporangia stalked, sessile, or plasmodiocarps; sporangium- 

 wall single, with innate lime-granules sparsely distributed, densely 

 clustered, or forming a thick deposit ; columella present or 

 wanting ; capillitium consisting of a coarse network charged with 

 granules of Kme (in B. pa/nicea, B. decipiens, and B. nitens some- 

 times constricted here and there into narrow hyaline threads) ; 

 spores clustered or free, warted, reticulated, or nearly smooth. 



