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bol BISH); portions of all collections of 
Myxomycetes except three (duplicated by 
other specimens from the Marshalls), and of 
all species of Heterobasidiomycetes, are in 
the herbarium of the University of Iowa 
(SUI); certain specimens cited are in the 
Farlow Herbarium (FH); portions of nearly 
all collections are in the writer’s herbarium. 
Where material is sufficiently abundant, 
wider distribution has been or will be made. 
The synonymy given is not intended to be 
complete;, for most species only a few of the 
more satisfactory and more readily available 
descriptions are cited. 
I am indebted to the University of Ha¬ 
waii, which through Dean Paul S. Bachman 
and its Pacific Islands Research Committee 
assumed the financial burden of the expedi¬ 
tion; to Captain John C. Hammock, Com¬ 
modore Benjamin F. Wyatt, Lieutenant H. 
B. Wessinger, and those other officers of 
the United States Navy who facilitated our 
journey to the Marshalls; to Professor G. W. 
Martin of the University of Iowa, who named 
a number of the Myxomycetes and made 
available extensive manuscript notes on Auri- 
cularia; to Professor J. N. Couch of the Uni¬ 
versity of North Carolina, for notes on 
material of Septobasidium; to Miss Hilda 
Harris of the Farlow Library, who verified 
citations of works not available in Hawaii; 
and to Dr. St. John and Mr. Cowan, whose 
assistance and companionship made the 
journey an agreeable as well as a productive 
one. 
Myxomycetes 
1. Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst.— 
Utirik, 1657; Mejit, 1492, 1642, 1660; 
Likiep: Likiep I., 1651; Jaluit, 1649; Ebon, 
1631. 
2. Arcyria nutans (Bull.) Grev.— 
Likiep: Biebi L, 1652. 
3. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa 
(Muell.) Macbr.—Mejit, 1628; Wotje: 
PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. 1, April, 1947 
Ormed I., 1661, Riri I., 1629; Ebon, 1634. 
4. COMATRICHA TYPHOIDES 2 (Bull.) 
Rost.—Mejit, 1643; Jaluit, 1647; Ebon, 
1636. 
3. Cribraria tenella Schrad.—Jaluit, 
1650, 1662. 
6 . Dictydium cancellatum (Batsch) 
Macbr.—Ailuk: Ailuk I., 1653. 
7. Fuligo septica (L.) Wiggers— 
Ebon, 1627, 1638. 
8. Hemitrichia serpula (Scop.) Rost. 
—Namu: Leuen I., 1648; Ebon, 1635. 
9. Hemitrichia stipitata (Mass.) 
Macbr. — Ailuk: Ailuk I., 1654, 1706; 
Wotje: Ormed I., 1640; Ebon, 1632. 
10. Hemitrichia vesparium (Batsch) 
Macbr.—Ailuk: Ailuk I .,1710; Ebon, 1637. 
11. Perichaena depressa Lib.—Ebon, 
1630. 
12. Physarella oblonga (Berk, and 
Curt.) Morg.—Ailuk: Ailuk I., 1708; Jaluit, 
1646. 
13. Physarum tenerum Rex—Mejit, 
1641; Ailuk: Ailuk I., 1655. 
14. Physarum viride (Bull.) Pers.— 
Utirik, 1659. 
15. Physarum Wingatense Macbr.— 
Ailuk: Nankarai I., 1712; Wotje, Ormed I., 
1645, Riri I., 1626, 1639. 
16. Stemonitis fusca Roth — Utirik, 
1658; Ailuk: Ailuk I., 1656; Likiep: Likiep 
I., 1625. 
17. Stemonitis splendens Rost.— 
Likiep: Biebi I., 1644. 
None of the Myxomycetes collected is 
sufficiently uncommon or unusual to be 
2 As in all other matters, I have attempted to 
follow the existing provisions of the International 
Rules with respect to orthography. Cf. Rec. XLIII, 
and the addition voted at Amsterdam. 
