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THE MYXOMYCETES. 
Apropos of this subject we have just received the first portion 
of an arrangement of Myxomycetes by Professor F. Hazslinszky, 
chiefly in respect to the Hungarian species. Unfortunately this is 
published jn Hungarian, even as Eostafinski’s was in Polish, and 
this places a difficulty in the way of our giving an immediate 
analysis. It is nevertheless evident that a modification of the old 
system is adopted rather than the recent one, as will be seen by 
the following enumeration of the genera contained in the portion 
of the work which is issued ; — 
1. Ceratiaceae. 
1. Ceratium, A. ^ S. 
2. Lycogaleje. 
2. Lycogala, Mich. 
3. Reticularia, Fr. 
4. .^thalium. Link. 
5. Spumaria, Pers. 
3. Ophinridea?. 
6. Ophinridium, Hazs. 
4. Cribrariacese. 
7. Cribraria, Schr. 
8. Dictydium, Schr. 
5. Stemonitideie. 
9. Diachsea, Fr. 
10. Stemonitis, Gled. 
Some time since we received from Professor Hazslinszky a 
small portion of a specimen of the Myxogaster, which he has 
since described as Ophinridium dissiliens, and which is the type of 
his genus Ophinridium, and also of the family Ophinridece. From 
a careful examination and comparison we do not hesitate to 
pronounce it a species of Clathroptychium, very nearly allied to, 
even if not identical with Clathroptychium rugulosum, Rost. The 
curious bodies which seemed to the author to be secondary internal 
sacs, he will discover to be the upper, dome-like portion of the 
sporangia, from which proceed the six undulated triangular threads 
attached to them, downwards to the base of the compound 
sporangia or asthalium. The structure is so precisely that of 
Clathroptychium that it would at once be recognised by any one 
acquainted with that genus, the peculiarities of which were first 
clearly indicated by Rostafinski. 
CRYPTOGAMIC LITERATURE. 
Ellis, J. B. South Jersey Fungi, in “ Bullet. Torrey Club,” 
Vol. vi., No. 26. 
ScHULZER, S. ISIycologisches, in “ Flora,” Feb., 1877. 
