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Batsch. El. Fung. cont. I, 1786. 

 37- iyycoperdon favogineum. 



38. Embolus pertusus. 



Batsch. El. Fung. cont. II, 1789. 



39. MUCOR CANCEEEATUS. 



Bolton. Fungi Hal., 1789. 



40. MUCOR EYCOGAEUS. 



Baumgarten. Flora Lips., 1790. 



41. Fueigo panicea=8. Mucilago of Micheli. 



Bulliard, Histoire des Champignons de la France, 1791, 

 enumerated 37 species belonging to the Myxomycetes; he 

 placed them in the genera Reticularia, Trichia, Sphaerocar- 

 pus, and Lycoperdon, inventing the first and third names for 

 this purpose. Trichia contained 6 species belonging to Ar- 

 cyria and Stemonitis, Sphaerocarpus contained 19 species of 

 various genera of simple Myxomycetes, Reticularia included 

 the Lycogala, Fuligo, and Spumaria of Persoon, except that 

 Ly co gala miniata was retained in Lycoperdon. 



Bulliard's contribution to the number of species may be 

 estimated as follows: 



42. Reticuearia sinuosa. 



43. Trichia axifera. 



44. Trichia eeucopodia. 



45. Sphaerocarpus utricularis. 



46. Sphaerocarpus chrysospermus. 



47. Sphaerocarpus aurantius. 



48. Sphaerocarpus geobueifer. 



49. Sphaerocarpus aebus. 



50. Sphaerocarpus capsueifer. 



Schrader, in the Nova Genera Plantarum (1797), put forth 

 the claim that the Myxomycetes deserve to constitute a 

 proper natural family very different from the rest of the 

 fungi. This family, to which he does not appear to have 

 given a name, embraces two subdivisions: (1) The seminal 

 powder, intermingled with a capillitium ; and (2) the seminal 

 powder naked or destitute of a capillitium. To the former 

 pertain Didymium, Trichia, Arcyria, Stemonitis, Phy- 



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