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C. Capillitium without lime-knots. 
Sporangium-wall of two layers more or less com- 
jjined. (9) Chondrioderma. 
Fig. 17.— Chondrioderma testaeeum Host. 
a. Group of three sporangia ; in the upper one the 
double wall is broken away in part and the 
columella exposed. Magnified 9 times. 
h 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) TRicnAMPHORA. 
Fig. 18. — Tricliampliora pezizoidea Jungh. 
a. Group of sporangia. Magnified 5^ times. 
h, CapiUitium with two spores. Magnified 140 
times. 
D. Lime confined to the stalk and columella, sporangium-wall 
membranous. (11) Diach^a. 
Fig. 19. — Diachaa 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 pi-esent or 
wanting ; capillitium consisting of a coarse network charged with 
granules of limo (in B. jyanicea, B. decijoiens, and B. niiens some- 
times constricted here and there into narrow hyaline threads) ; 
spores clustered or free, warted, reticulated, or nearly smooth. 
