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ally with two to four purple plasmodic granules on the spore 
wall.” 
Massee adopts the name L. cernuum Nees. His description 
agrees essentially with the foregoing. 
In the specimens which I have I find some of the spores with 
the purple plasmodic granules mentioned by Lister, but I think 
their connection with the spores is accidental, the granules hav¬ 
ing been separated from the ribs and merely touching the surface 
of the spores. 
I find the spores by transmitted light not reddish but rather 
faintly yellowish, nearly colorless and smooth. The meridional 
ribs of this species render the determination certain. 
One of my specimens from the campus woods, July 18, 1904, 
and another from a different part of Madison, growing on de¬ 
cayed wood, are of a decided purplish tinge; another from the 
cemetery woods, July 9, 1904, is a light rusty-brown, showing no 
hint of purple, and three gathered in Vilas woods, July 1.6, 1904, 
and one at Blue Mounds, July 8, 1904, are brown with a more or 
less purple tint. All are on wood except one of the Vilas woods 
specimens, which is partly on a thin bark. 
Lycogala epidendrum (Buxb.) Fries. 
1721. Lycoperdon epidendron, etc., Buxbaum, En, PI. Hal., p. 
203. 
1829. Lycogala epidendrum (Buxb.) Fries, Syst. Myc ., III., p. 
80. 
Saccardo: “HOthalia gregarious, spherical, shining, warted, 
at first pink, then red, at length ashen or dusky; spores and cap- 
illitium various colors, pink, purple, violet-red, at length pale, 
lead-color or gray ; spores smooth. 3-5/* in diameter.” 
Macbride has found the gethalia solitary as well as clustered. 
He calls: them depressed-spherical, or when crowded, irregular, 
3-10 mm. in diameter. He finds them dehiscing irregularly, but 
more often near the apex. He adds: ‘‘ Peridium thin, but tough 
and persistent, made up of numerous agglutinated tubules, en¬ 
closing in their meshes peculiar cell-like vesicles; capillitium 
parietal, consisting of long, branching, and anastomosing flat¬ 
tened tubules extending inwardly among the spores, everywhere 
marked by transverse wrinkles, ridges and warts, the free ends 
of the ultimate branchlets rounded, concolorous with the spores; 
