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Hah On dead wood.— Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire (B M. 1114) ; 
SuTton Warwick (L:B.M.]33) ; Baden Baden (L:B.M.133 ; Salem 
Germany (B. M. 777, 783) ; Switzerland (B M. 1140) ; Sweden 
(K. 1179) ; Poland (Strassb. Herb.) ; Philadelphia (L:B.M.ld3). 
2 T verrucosa Berk., in Hook., Fl. Tasm., ii., p. 269 (1860). 
Plasmodium ? Total height 2 to 4 mm. Sporangia pynform or 
clavate, stipitate, clustered or soUtary, 1-4 mm. high, 0-8 mm. 
broad, ochraceous-yellow, mass of elaters and spores golden- 
yellow; sporangium-wall membranous, minutely and closely 
papillose, pale yellow. Stalks membranous, 1 to 2 mm. high, 
usually combined in clusters of three or four, rugose, yellow- 
brown, or dark brown. Capillitium of long cylindrical elaters, 
4 to 6 '/X wide, with short conical ends, marked with three to five 
narrow spiral bands, smooth, or with a few scattered spines, longi- 
tudinal stri« distinct. Spores reticulated with narrow, minutely 
pitted bands, forming a network with about seven meshes to the 
hemisphere, 13 to 16 /a diam., border 1 /x wide.— Mass., Mon., 
p. 191. T. superba Mass., in Journ. R. Micr. Soc. (1889), p. 345; 
Mass., Mon., p. 194. 
Plate LX., B.—a. sporangia, x 2Q ; I. elater, x 600 ; c. spore, x 600 
(New Zealand). 
The specimen from Tasmania (K. 1750) described by Berkeley as 
T. verrucosa is somewhat immature, but is suiiiciently developed to 
be clearly identified as the same species as T. superha Mass. from New 
Zealand. A fine specimen of the same form from Chili, in the 
Strassburg Herb., is named by Rostafinski T. chrysosperma. It is no 
doubt closely allied to that species, but the constancy of the characters 
of the stalked sporangia and of the spores marked with a rather close 
reticulation of narrow bands forming a border scarcely 1 broad 
supports the specific distinction. A large gathering by Prof. BaKour 
in Scotland shows the same characters. 
Eah. On dead wood.— Moffat, Scotland (L:B.M.134) ; Tasmania 
(K. 1750, 1751) ; New Zealand (K. 1166, 1167, 1764) ; Chili (Strassb. 
Herb.). 
3. T. affinis de Bary, in Fuckel, Symb. Myc, p. 336 (1869). 
Plasmodium watery-white, in dead wood. Sporangia globose, 
sessile, crowded on a membranous hypothallus, 0'6 to 1 mm. 
diam., shining golden or ochraceous-yellow ; mass of elaters and 
spores bright yellow ; sporangium -wall membranous, pale yellow, 
marked with delicate irregular strife. CapilHtium of long cylindrical 
elaters, 4 to 6 /x diam., with conical pointed ends, marked with 
four to five spiral bands, smooth, or with minute scattered spines ; 
longitudinal striae usually present, but often faint. Spores reti- 
culated with broad, rarely narrow, pitted bands, forming a more or 
less complete net with three to five meshes to the hemisphere, 13 
to 15 /xdiam., border 0-5 to 1 wide. — E,ost., Mon., p. 257; Cooke, 
Myx. Brit., fig. 241; Blytt, Bidr. K. Norg., Sop. iii. (1892), 
p. 13; Macbride, in Bull. Nat. Hist. Iowa, ii., p. 131; Mass., 
Mon., p. 194. Trichia Kalhreyeri Mass., in Journ. R. Micr. Soc. 
