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in irregularly shaped patches, and coated with remote easily- 
detached white clusters of lime crystals ; coumella absent ; capil- 
litium uncoloured, forming a small meshed net, few angles swollen 
into small rounded knots, enclosing a few small rounded lime 
granules, intervening threads undulate and delicate ; spores violet 
with thick smooth membrane, , 0093- , 0109 diam. 
In Herb. Currey. No locality. On bark. 
Very distinct, with its scattered cluster of crystals on the surface 
of the capsule wall. In the paucity and smallness of the swollen 
knots of the capillitium it approaches I'ilmadoche, but differs in its 
irregular and intricate branching. 
Physarum Phillipsi, Balf.fil. 
Sporangium subsessile, or shortly stipitate, about T k- in. high ; 
stipe black, stout, much shorter than capsule ; capsule subreniform 
or subpyriform, sometimes by coalescence plasmodiocarpoid or de- 
formed, laterally compressed, umbilicate, ash-grey and commonly 
rugose, fragile, wall single, uncoloured when separate, densely im- 
pregnated with small rounded granules oflime in rounded patches ; 
coumella absent; capillitium uncoloured, threads delicate at 
attachment to wall, internally lorming a compact net, all angles 
swollen into rounded knots filled with minute rounded lime granules, 
intervening threads very short, undulate, and very delicate ; spores 
violet warted with thick membrane 0117 mm. diam. 
On manured ground in an orchard house. Shrewsbury. Phillips. 
In Herb. Currey. 
A very marked species, possibly having its nearest ally in Physa- 
rum nephroideum , Rtfki., which is not however a British species. 
Trichia lateritia, Lev. 
Sporangia pyriform, stipitate, together with the stem brown- 
black, opaque. Mass of spores and elaters brick red. Elaters 
fusiform, the ends terminating in a sharp, almost smooth spine. 
Spirals four to the right, rather prominent. Spores with a thick 
membrane, smooth. 01-012 mm. diam. Rostajinski Monog., p. 250. 
Ctoke, Myxomycetes, figs. 223, 224. 
On dead wood. Orton Wood (Rev. A. Bloxam). 
Trichia affinis, Be B ary. 
Sporangia, in the typical form, collected in clusters, sessile on a 
common strongly developed hypothallus. Elaters cylindrical (004- 
005 mm.), smooth, straight or slightly bent, spirals combined in a 
reticulate manner. Spores (from *01 to *012 mm. or even ’014 
mm.) epispore with hexagonal thickenings in a reticulate manner. 
Rostafinski Monog., p. 257. Cooke , Myxomycetes , fig. 241. 
On dead wood. Cotteral Wood, Cheshire, 1828. (Wilson). 
Epping Forest (M. C. C.), Hampstead (Cke. Fung. Gt. Brit., No. 
614), Brandon (C. B. P., in Cke. Fung. Gt. Brit., ed. sec.. No. 
527), Raehills, near Moffat and Queen’s Cottage, Kew (Bayley 
Balfour), and in Herb. Currey. 
Trichia Jackii, Rt/ki. 
Sporangia, in the typical form, collected in clusters, sessile on a 
common strongly developed hypothallus. Elaters cylindrical (004 
mm. diam.) with smooth ends, straight or slightly bent. Spirals 
