186 
Reticularia phyrrhospora , Berk., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. X, p. 347 
Sacc. Sy 11., No. 1432. 
Reticularia rubra, Ayres, in Herb. Berk. 
On dead trees. Mauritius, Cuba. (Type in Herb. Berk.) Forming 
pulvinate masses 2-3 inches long by 1 inch or more high, seated on a 
broad base, convex above, sometimes irregular in outline. The coni- 
dia are produced on the tips of lateral or terminal branches, the api¬ 
cal cells of which become inflated, and from this inflated apical portion 
of the terminal cells the conidia are produced; eventually, the in¬ 
flated apical cell becomes colored like the conidia, and falls away from 
the colorless supporting hyplia; these latter are the bodies referred to 
by Berkeley as shortly stipitate spores. 
5. Trichosporium apiosporium, (B. & Br.)Mass. (Fig.5.) Broadly 
effused, fulvous, hyphae agglutinated into radiating dendritic strands; 
conidia elliptical , minutely verrucose , almost colorless, 8-9 by 5 p. 
Reticularia apiospora , B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Yol. XI, p. 82; 
Sacc. Syli., 1427. 
On dead wood. Ceylon, Lower Carolina. (Type in Herb. Berk.) 
Broadly effused, thin; hyph® agglutinated into irregularly branched 
vein-like radiating strands. The conidia spring from subpyriform apical 
cells as in T. pliyrrhosporium. 
6. Badhamia nodulosa, (Cke. & Bal.) Mass. (Fig. 6.) Sporangia 
globose, stipitate, wall very thin, almost colorless above, and covered 
with an irregular scanty white crust of lime, basal portion without 
lime and beautifully iridescent, becoming irregularly ruptured at ma¬ 
turity; stem longer than sporangium, weak, often subdecumbent , brown, 
attenuated upwards, longitudinally wrinkled, expanding at the base 
into a small, irregular hypothallus ; columella absent; capillitium well 
developed, flattened, intricately branching nodes large, irregular, scan¬ 
tily furnished throughout with granules of lime; spores globose, dingy 
lilac, minutely verruculose , 8-10 p in diameter. 
Physarum nodulosum , Cke. & Balf., in Rav. Fung. Amer. Exs., No. 
479. 
On Acacia bark. Aiken, S. Carolina (Rav. 2972). (Type in Herb. 
Kew.) A very distinct and good species of Badhamia, hitherto unde¬ 
scribed so far as I am aware. About 1.5 mm. high, stem twice as long 
as sporangium, weak, usually subprostrate, capillitium dense, with the 
characteristic flattenings met with in Badhamia , and everywhere con¬ 
taining granules of lime, although the quantity is not so great as is 
usual in the genus. Sparsely scattered, rarely two springing from the 
same hypothallus. 
7. Physarum scypiioides, Cke. & Balf. (Fig. 7). Sporangia glo¬ 
bose or broadly ouovate, stipitate, upper portion of wall whitish , rough 
with amorphous lumps of lime, basal portion bright brown, persistent as 
a very shallow, irregular cup; stem about equal to sporangium in length, 
bright brown, erect, usually attenuated upwards, irregularly wrinkled 
