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## Sporangia sessile. 
2073. Physarum cinereum. Batscli. Rlfki. Mon. 102. 
Sacc. Syll. 1189. Mass. Mon. 298. 
Sporangia irregularly globose, or hemispherical ; sometimes 
completely flattened, sessile, gregarious, or crowded together ; in- 
variably without stem or columella ; usually variable in size ; 
capillitium strongly developed, containing numerous, angular, irre- 
gular granules of lime, differing in size ; spores bright violet, 
with a smooth membrane, or scarcely warted, variable in size, 7^- 
13 g diam. 
On bark, wood, leaves, etc. Victoria. 
2074. Physarum scrobiculatum. Berk. Masses. Mon. 
360.=Didymium scrobiculatum. Berk. Hook. Journ. iv., 66. 
Sporangia sessile on a broad or narrowed base, seated on a thick 
wide- spreading hypothallns, scattered or aggregated, often irregular, 
and ffithalioid, or several blending together to form a plasmodio- 
earp, pale flesh colour, brittle, often furfuraceons ; capillitium 
dense, forming an irregular network, nodes numerous, large , 
irregularly angular, filled with yellow granules of lime, connected 
at several points by long, thin, colourless internodes without lime; 
columella absent ; spores lilac-brown, globose, minutely warted , 
13-14 g diam. 
On charred wood. W. Australia. 
Genus 17. BADHAMIA. Berk. 
Sporangia with single wall, splitting irregularly ; capillitium 
uniformly grown to the wall, with numerous branches combined 
into an all-sided net, usually thick, entirely filled with small 
granules of lime ; spores originating in clusters, or free from the 
first, globose or elliptical. 
2075. Badhamia varia. Mass. Mon. 319.=Badhamia 
hyalina. Berk. Linn. Trans, xxi., t. 19,/. 3. Sacc. Syll . 
1150. Badhamia capsnlifera. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 1101. 
Badhamia utrieularis. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 1149. 
Sporangia more or less aggregated, sessile or stipitate, globose 
or obovate, grey and opaque or shining with metallic tints ; stem 
when present generally weak and decumbent, several often more or 
less grown together, pale yellow or reddish, springing from a well- 
developed hypothallus of the same colour ; capillitium variable, 
well developed, knots large or not very evident; spores in clusters, 
or free from the first, globose, minutely warted all over, dingy 
lilac-brown, 9-12 g diam. , 
On wood, etc. Victoria. N.S. Wales. Tasmania. (Fig. 360.) 
