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ENDOSPOnUiE. 
[badiiamia. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BADHAMIA. 
A. Spores clustered : — 
a. Spores warted on one side chiefly — 
Lime in sporangium and capillitium white. 
1. B. hyalina 
Lime in sporangium and capillitium yellow. 
3. B. nitem 
h. Spores warted equally all over. 2. B. utricularis 
B. Spores not clustered : — 
a. Sporangia yellow or orange. 4. B. clecipiens 
h. Sporangia white or grey — 
Sporangia on long membranous stalks, spores nearly 
smooth, black. 5. B. magna 
Sporangia sessile or with firm stalks, spores minutely 
and closely spinulose, dark, purple-bi-own. 
6. B. mo.crocar'pa 
Sporangia always sessile, spores violet-brown, nearly 
smooth. 7. B. panicea 
c. Sporangia flesh-coloured or rufous — 
Sporangia sessile, without a true columella. 
8. B. Ulacina 
Spoi-angia stalked ; stalk continued into the spor- 
angium as a columella. 9. B. rubiginosa 
1. B. hyalina Berk., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi., p. 153 (1852). 
PlasmocUum chrome-yellow. Sporangia globose or pyriform, sessUe 
orstipitate, 0'7 to 1*5 mm. diam., greyish-white, pure white after 
dispersion of the spores ; sporangiiim-wall hyaline, with lime- 
granules sparsely distributed. Stalk usually short or wanting, 
cylindrical or membranous, straw-coloured or dark. Capillitium 
a network of flat bands with broad, thin expansions at the angles ; 
lime-granules evenly but not densely distributed throughout. 
Spores dark purple-brown, adhering in clusters of 8 to 20, coarsely 
warted on the outer third, minutely spinulose on the rest of the 
surface, 11 to 13 /a diam. — Rest., Mon., p. 139, fig. 113; Cooke, 
Myx. Brit., p. 25 ; Blytt, Bidr. K. Norg., Sop. iii., p. 4 (1892). 
Physarum hyalinum Pers., in Homer, N. Mag. Bot., i., p. 88 
(1794). Badhamia capsulifera Berk., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi., 
p. 153 ; Eost., Mon., p. 141 . B. varia Mass., Mon., p. 319 (in part). 
a. genuina: stalk pale, membranous, or almost wanting; spores 
in clusters of 10 to 20. 
p. papaveracea : stalk short, dark ; spores in dense clusters 
of G to 10. — Badhamia jyapaveracea Berk. & Eav., in Grev., ii., 
p. 66 ; Eost., Mon., App., p. 3; Mass., Mon., p. 323 (in part). 
