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[badhamia. 
growths, though all were cultivated from one original gathering of 
Plasmodium, but they were never free as in B. macrocarxia. In some 
specimens in the Strassburg collection the spores show but slight 
indication of clustering, in others this character is well marked. 
Hah. Plasmodium extensively creeping over the bark of fallen trees, 
logs, etc., feeding on effused fungi, especially Stereitm hirsutum and 
Polyporus versicolor. — Batheaston, Somerset (B. M. 103) ; Lyme Regis, 
Dorset (L:B.M.3) ; Glamis, Forfarshire (B. M. 149) ; France (Paris 
Herb.) ; Germany (Strassb. Herb.) ; Italy (K. 165) ; Massachusetts 
(L:B.M.3). 
3. B. nitens Berk., in Trans. Linn. See, xxi., p. 153 (1852). 
Plasmodium yellow. Sporangia sessile, subglobose, gregarious or 
clustered, or elongated plasmodiocarps about 1 mm. diam. ; golden 
yellow, rugose, or greenish with yellow warts and ridges ; 
sporangium- wall membranous with innate clusters of yellow 
lime-granules. Columella none. Oapillitium yellow or orange, a 
coarse network of rugged bands, rarely contracted to form short 
hyaline threads connecting branched lime-knots ; deposits of lime 
usually dense, sometimes sparse. Spores purple-brown, in close 
clusters of 6 to 10, minutely spinulose, coarsely warted on the 
outer third, sometimes nearly free and scarcely warted on one 
side, 10 to 13 /X diam. — Rost., Mon., App., p. 3 ; Cooke, Myx. Brit., 
p. 81 ; Mass., Mon., p. 324. B. pallida Berk., in Trans. Linn. 
Soc, xxi., p. 153. B. inaurata Cui-rey, in Trans. Linn. Soc, 
xxiv., p. 156. B. fapaveracea Mass., Mon., p. 323 (in part). 
Plate III., A.— fl. group of sporangia, x 20 ; oapillitium with attach- 
ments to the sporangium-wall, x 280 ; c. cluster of spores, x 280 ; d. 
spore, X 600. 
Examination of the type specimens of B. nitens and B. imllida of 
Berkeley, from the Rev. 0. Badham (Kew 1218, 1235), and of B. 
inaurata Currey (B. M. 151), shows that they are all the same species 
with yellow sporangium-wall and closely clustered spores coarsely 
warted on one side. 
Hah. In the substance of rotten wood, creeping on moss, etc. 
Hitherto found only in England. — Lyme Eegis, Dorset (L:B.M.41 ; 
Luton, Beds. (L:B.M.4) ; East Bergholt, Essex (K. 1235, 1241) ; Cray 
Common, Kent (B. M. 151). 
4. B. decipiens Berk., in Grev. ii. (1873), p. 66. Plasmodium 1 
Sporangia branching or vermiform plasmodiocarps, occasionally 
subglobose, 0-3 to 0-4 mm. diam., sessile, gregarious, rugose 
or nearly smooth, lemon - yellow or orange ; sporangium-wall 
membranous with innate clusters of yellow lime-grainiles. 
Columella none. Capillitium yellow or pale orange, a coarse 
network densely charged throughout with lime-granules, or 
formed of large angular and branching lime-knots with few 
connecting hyaline threads. Spores violet-brown, spinulose, 
10 to 13 jjL diam, — Physarum decipiens Om-t., in Am. Journ. Sc., 
vi. (1848), p. 352. P. ehrysotrichum Berk. & Curt., in Grev., ii. 
(1873), p. 66. Badhamia chrysotricha liost., Mon., App., p. 4. 
Didymium reticulatimi Berk, & Br., in Herb. Berk. Lepidodcrma 
