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[trichia. 
bands and only a few short scattered spines ; it appears to be a typical 
form of T. scabra, except that the elaters are rather more smooth than 
usual. 
Ilab. On dead wood. — Wothorpe, Northamptonshire (B. M. 366) ; 
St. Catherines, Somerset (B. M. 368) ; Wanstead, Essex (L:B.M.137) ; 
Lyme Regis, Dorset (L:B.M.137) ; Luton, Beds (L:B.M.137) ; Germany 
(B. M. 779) ; Sweden (K. 1104) ; Poland (Strassb. Herb.) ; Philadelphia 
(L:B.M.137); Iowa (B. M. 835) ; Ohio (L:B.M.137). 
6. T. varia Pers., in Rbmer, N. Mag. Bot., i., p. 90 (1794). 
Plasmodium white, in i^otten wood. Sporangia globose, ovoid or 
turbinate, sessile or stalked, 0"6 to 0*9 mm. diam., or forming 
short plasmodiocarps, crowded or scattered, ochraceous or oliva- 
ceous ; sporangium-wall membranous, pale yellow, marked with 
ring-shaped or crescentic thickenings 8 /a diam. Stalks 0*1 to 0-5 
mm. high, 0'2 to 0'3 mm. thick, black, furrowed. Capillitium of 
cylindrical, ochraceous-yellow elaters, 3 to 5 yu. diam., marked with 
two prominent bands forming a loose spiral, tapering shortly at 
the ends and terminating in a curved point. Spores ochraceous- 
yellow, minutely warted, 11 to 16 /a diam. — Rost., Mon., p. 251 ; 
Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 63, figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 218, 237; 
Blytt, Bidr. K. Norg., Sop. iii. (1892), p. 12 ; Macbride, in Bull. 
Nat. Hist. Iowa, ii., p. 129; Mass., Mon., p. 178. Stemonitis 
varia Pers., in Gmel, Syst. Nat., p. 1470 (1791). Trichia 
nigripes Pers., Syn., p. 178 (1801). 
Plate LXI., A. — a. sporangia, x 20 ; &. elater, x 600; c. spore, x 600 
(England). 
Sporangia with longer or shorter stalks frequently occur with sessile 
forms arising from the same plasmodium. 
Hah. On dead wood.— Batheaston, Somerset (B. M. 361) ; Leicester- 
shire (B. M. 379) ; Lyme Regis, Dorset (L:B.M.138) ; Hampstead 
(B. M. 1122) and Highgate, London (B. M. 1120) ; Brandon, Suffolk 
(B. M. 1121) ; Bud's Clough, Cheshire (B. M. 1117) ; France (Paris 
Herb.) ; Germany (B. M. 768) ; Switzerland (B. M. 1141) ; Finland 
(K. 1124) ; Italy (K. 1148) ; Philadelphia (L:B.M.138) ; Iowa (L:B.M. 
138) ; S. Carolina (B. M. 800). 
7. T. contorta Eost., Mon., p. 25 (1875). Plasmodium watery- 
white, in bark and rotten wood. Sporangia subglobose, sessile, 
crowded or scattered, 0*5 to 0-8 mm. diam., or forming elongated 
curved plasmodiocarps, dull yellow-brown or dark red-brown ; 
mass of spores and elaters yellow or ochraceous ; sporangium-wall 
charged with brown granular matter. Capillitium of irregularly 
cylindrical threads, with indistinct or rugged spiral thickenings, 
or of equal elaters with four or five distinct closely set spiral bands, 
3 to 5 /A diam., the tips usually swollen and ending in a curved 
point, yellow or yellow-brown. Spores yellow, minutely spinulose, 
10 to 14 diam.— Cooke, Myx. Brit., fig. 229 ; Mass., Mon., p. 
182. Lycogala contortum Ditm., in Sturm, Deutsch. Fl., iii., p. 8, 
tab. 5 (1813). Hemitrichia contorta Rost., in Fuckel, Sym. Myc, 
Nachtr., p. 75. Trichia inconsjncua Rost., Mon., p. 259 ; Blytt, 
Bidr. K. Norg., Sop. iii. (1892), p. 13 ; Macbride, in Bull. Nat. 
