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[badiiamia. 
brown. Capillitium wliite, an irregular netwoi^k formed of broad, 
branching Hme-knots, with narrower connecting strands, charged 
throughout with granules of lime. Spores dark purple-brown, 
minutely and closely spinulose all over, not clustered, 11 to 15 
jx diam. — Mass., Mon., p. 317. Physarum mao'ocarpon Cos., in 
Eabenh. Fungi Eur., 1968 (1854) ; in Flora (1855), p. 271. Bad- 
hamia orbiculata Res, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1893, p. 372. 
Plate IV., A. — a. stalked sporangia, x 20 (Berlin) ; b. sessile sporangia, 
X 20 (Warsaw : Kostafinski's type) ; c. capillitium and spores of the same, 
X 280 ; d. spore, x 600 ; c. sporangia, x 20 (England). 
The American specimens of this species from Prof. Farlow and 
Dr. Rex are, as a rule, smaller than the European gatherings, and the 
stalks, when present, are more slender. 
B. orbiculata Rex appears to be a variety differing in the shape of 
the orbicular or discoidal, depressed sporangia. 
Hah. On dead wood.— Luton, Beds. (L:B.M.7) ; Sutton Coldfield, 
Stafford (L:B.M.7) ; Cambridge (L:B.M.7) ; Holland (Lejd. Herb.) ; 
Berbn (B. M. 434) ; Poland (Strassb. Herb.) ; Italy (K. 187) ; Phila- 
delphia (L:B.M.7) ; Arizona (L:B.M.7). 
7. B. panicea Post., in Fuckel Symb. Myc, Nachtr. 2, p. 71 
(1873). Plasmodium white. Sporangia sessile, subglobose, 0-4 to 
1-2 mm. diam., scattered, or closely aggregated and angled by 
mutual pressure, white or cinereous; sporangium- wnil membranous, 
with innate deposits of lime-granules in dense clustei-s forming 
raised warts or veins. Capillitium white, a profuse network of 
broad or narrow bands, everywhere charged with granules of 
lime, often densely confluent at the base, forming an ivory-white 
columella. Spores violet-brown, very minutely warttd, not 
clustered, 11 p. diam. — Mon., p. 144, figs. 114, 116; Mass., Mon., 
p. 318. Physarum 2)aniceum Fr., Syst. Myc, iii., p. 141 (1829). 
Badhamia verna Post., Mon., p. 145; Mass., Mon., p. 324. 
Plate IV., B.— fl. sporangia, x 20 (England) ; h. capillitium and spores, 
X 280 ; c. spore, x 600 ; d. sporangia broken, showing pseudo-columelln, 
X 20 ; e. sporangia of a form without columella and with a closer network 
of capillitium, x 20. 
Badhamia verna Rost. appears to be a form of B. panicea ; the 
upecimens in Strassb. Herb, differ from the type of the latter species 
only in the more scanty deposits of lime, and in the narrow bands of 
the capillitium contracting here and there into hyaline threads. These 
characters frequently occur in normal British gatherings of B. panicea. 
Hah. Between the bark and wood of felled elm-trees, etc. Maturing 
on the outer bark and surrounding herbage. — Batheaston, Somerset 
(B. M. 77) ; Lyme Regis, Dorset (L:B.M.8) ; France (B. M. 425) ; 
Germany (B. M. 424). 
8. B. lilacina Post., Versuch., p. 10 (1873). Plasmodium 
bright yellow. Sporangia subglobose, about U'5 mm. diam., 
sessile, rarely shortly stalked, gregarious or crowded and angled 
by mutual pressure, flesh colour or whitish ; sporangium-wall 
opaquo from innate deposits of lime. Capillitium flash coloured 
or nearly white ; a rugged network with large knots of irregular 
