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On wood and decaying Auricularia. Germany; France;
Sweden.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Physarum maerocarpum, Fckl., Sym. Myc., p. 343, non Cesati
(1869).
Trichamphm'a Fuchclianum, Rost., in Fckl., S. M., 2, Nach.,
p. 74 (1873).
A specimen named by Rostafinski in Herb., Berk, has tbe
superficial appearance of a Tilmadoche; a slender, elongated,
wrinkled, bright brown stem, and grey sporangial wall.
Badhamia nodulosa, Mass.
Sporangia globose, stipitate, wall very thin, almost colourless
above, and covered with an irregular white crust of lime, basal
portion without lime and beautifully iridescent; becoming
iiTegularly ruptured at maturity; stem longer than sporangium,
weak, often subdeeumbent, attenuated upwards, brown, longitudinally
wrinkled, expanding at tbe base into a small, irregular
hypothallus; columella absent; capillitium well developed,
flattened, intricately branching from the nodes, scantily furnished
throughout with granules of lime; spores globose, dingy lilac,
minutely verrueidose, 10—12 g diameter.
Badhamia nodulosa, Mass., Journ. Myc., vol. v., p. 186,
t. 14, f. 6.
Physarum nodulosum, Cooke and Balf., in Rav., Fung. Amer.,
Exs., n. 479.
Cn acacia bark. Aiken, S. Carolina (Rav., 2972).
(Type in Herb., Kew.)
A very distinct and good species of tbe genus Badhamia,
1-5 mm. h igh; stem twice as long as sporangium, weak, usually
subprostrate; capillitium dense, with the characteristic flattenings
met with in Badhamia, and everywhere containing granules
of lime, although the quantity is not so great as is usual.
Sparsely scattered, rarely two springing from the same hypothallus.
Badhamia irregularis, C. and E.
Scattered, sessile; sporangia suborbicular or confluent, at
length hlaehish-brown; spores brown, globose, asgierulate, 10 g
diameter.
Badhamia irregularis, Cooke and Ellis.
Cn pine wood. N. America.
I have seen no specimen of the present imperfectly described
species.
§ § Spores in clusters, free, surface warted, remainder smooth.
Badhamia papaveracea, Berk, and Rav.
Sporangia usually densely gregarious, with a few scattered
marginal individuals, hemispherical or irregularly polygonal
from mutual pressure, sessile, or with a rudimentary stem, wall
smooth or rugulose, white, greyish, or yellotoish, iridescent when
empty; capillitium usually dense, white, threads with large
nodular or interstitial swellings containing lime, combined to
form an irregular network; mass of spores blachish-purple, spores
at f r s t in clusters of 3—7, triangularly pyramidal, with a
rounded base which corresponds to the free portion of the spore,
and is covered with minute ivarts, tbe remainder smooth, pale
lilac or brownish-lilac, 9—10 g diameter.
Badhamia papaveracea. Berk, and Rav., Grev., vol. ii., p. 66
(1873); Rost,, Mon., p. 147; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1, n. 1152.
(Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, n. 10794.)
Badhamia pallida, Berk., Linn. Trans., xxi., p. 153, t. 19, f. 2;
Sacc., Syll., n. 1153 (in part.).
(Type in Herb. Berk., 10790.)
Exsiee.—Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 1214 (as Badhamia hyalina,
p. 320).
Gn wood, &c. Britain (East Bergliolt, Weybridge); U. States.
Allied to B. nitens, which differs in tbe bright yellow sporangial
wall, and the much more coarsely warted free portion of
the spores.