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ENDOSPORE^. 
[CLASTODERMA. 
purple, rather dull. Oapillitium originating from the apex of 
the short columella, threads blackish-purple, very slender, equal 
throughout, repeatedly forking from the base, angles very acute. 
Stem coloured like the sporangium and twice as long, slender 
above, becoming very thick downwards, and expanding into a 
small circular hypothallus. Spores in clusters of five to seven, 
globose when free, pale lilac, minutely warted, 15 to 16 ji diam. 
About 1 mm. high. — Mass., Mon., p. 98. Badhamia 2)enetralis 
Cooke & Ellis, Grev., v., p. 49. 
Hcib. On pine boards. — New Jersey. 
Nothing now remains in the TCew Herb. (K. 614) of the specimens 
first issued by Ellis under the name of B. penetralia but a few subulate 
stalks. The specimens issued as Comati-icha BllUiana syn. Lamijrodernm 
Ellisiana Cke., Badhamia penetralis Cke. & EUis, 2nd series, No. 2696 
(K. 1590), are Comatricha laxa. ' 
12. L. Lycopodii Eaunk., in Bot.Tidssk.,xvii., p. 109. Sporangia 
scattered, globose, sessile on a violet-brown hypothallus; wall, 
columella, capilHtium, and spores violet-brown ; the lower part of 
the wall remains with tattered margin. Columella cylindrical, 
reaching nearly half the height of the sporangium, giving rise in 
the upper part only to the capillitium, whose threads fork more 
and more towards the surface of the sporangium, where they are 
combined into a net by transverse branches, the extremities 
almost colourless. Spores furnished with a deHcate network of fine 
thickenings, 12 to 18 /x diam. — Stemonitis oi^ihrarioides Fr., Syst. 
Myc, iii., p. 163. Crihraria Lycofodii Pr. Nees, in Raunls;. I.e. 
Hah. On the leaves of Lycopodium. — Zealand. 
SPECIES EXCLUDED FROM THE GENUS. 
L. Hookeri Rost. = Chondrioder7na Hookeri List. 
Genus 19.— CLASTODERMA Blytt, in Bot. Zeit., xxxviii., 
p. 343 (1880); sporangia stalked, without lime; columella very 
short or hardly evident ; capillitium arising from the apex of the 
columella in solid lilac or ochraceous threads, repeatedly forking, 
sparingly anastomosing ; sporangium-wall dividing into sub- 
hyaline, membranous, rounded oblong or subpolygonal fragments, 
attached to one or from two to five of the ultimate branches of 
the capillitium ; spores pale lilac.—OETJIOTHIOHIA Wingate, 
in Journ. Myc, ii., p. 125 (1886). 
1. C. Debaryanum Blytt, Bot. Zeit., xxxviii., p. 343 (1880). 
Plasmodium? Total height 1 to 1-25 mm. Sporangia globose, 
stipitate, gregarious, 0-15 to 0-2 mm. diam., brown ; sporangium- 
waU membranous, persistent only in circular or polygonal plates 
attached to the ultimate branches of the capillitium. Stalks 
slender, rugose below, suddenly smooth and filiform in the upper 
fifth, brown. Columella short, dividing into the primary branches 
of the capillitium. Capillitium of pale brown threads, forking 
three or four times, sparingly anastomosing at the surface or free, 
