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Badhamia nitens, Berk. (figs. 176—179),
Sporangia globose, sessile, aggregated, Irigiit yellow, covered
with minute, scale-like particles of lime ; splitting irregularly
above ; capillitium well developed, threads thick, yellowish,
lime almost obsolete ; spores purple, aggregated in clusters, free
portion coarsely warted, remainder smooth, 10—16 g diameter.
Badhamia nitens. Berk., Trans. Linn. Soc., xxi., p. 153, t. 19,
f. 1 ; Rost., Mon. App., p. 27 (in part.).
(Type in Herb. Berk.)
Badhamia inaurata, Currey, Linn. Trans., xxiv. (1851), t. 25,
f. 8; Cooke, Myx. Brit, p. 28; Sacc., Syll, vii., n. 1162.
(Type in Brit. Mus.)
Cn moss, wood, &o. Britain (Carlisle, East Bergholt, Weybridge).
Readily distinguished by tbe bright yellow sporangia and tbe
clustered spores.
§ I § Spores smooth.
Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Rost.
Sporangia gregarious but distant, irregular, subrotund or reniform,
about 0'7 mm. broad, 0'7—2 mm. long, bright yellow-broton
or pallid ; capillitium well developed, tubes thick, nodes 85 g
broad; spores 9—11 g diameter, obscure violet, smooth.
Badhamia Alexandrowiczii, Rost., Mon., p. 146 ; Saco., Syll.,
vii., 1, n. 1154.
Cn dead leaves. Poland ; Germany.
Sporangial wall thick, rufous-brown, dehiscing in a circumscissile
manner by an operculum. (Berlese in Sacc., Syll.)
(Rostafinski’s Synonym.)
Physarum, Alexandrowiczii, De Bary and Rost., in Litt., Ad.
Alexand., I.e., p. 88 (1872).
Badhamia verna, Rost
Sporangia gregarious, depressed, variable in form, confluent,
not sinuous, wall very thin, blaehish-brown, smooth, very fragile,
becoming lacerated during dehiscence, at length evanescent;
threads of capillitium adnate, vague, white; spores Uacleish-
hrmon, 12—13 g diameter, smooth.
Badhamia verna, Rost., Mon., p. 146; Saoc., Syll., vii., 1, n.
331.
(Rostafinski’s Synonym.)
Physancm vernvm, Somf., in Litt., Ad. Fries, S. M., iii., p. 146
(1829).
Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter.
Sporangia sessile, about A mm. broad, collected in small
clusters or arranged in rows; hypothallus nearly obsolete; sporangial
wall thin, bright grey; capillitium slender, white, threads
irregularly nodulose with masses of lime, from 3—4 up to 12 g
thick, nodes not incrassated; spores not clustered, 7A —9 g
diameter, smooth, violet.
Badhamia microcarpa, Schroeter, Kr. El. Schles., p. 131;
Saoc., Syll., n. 1145.
Badhamia melanospora, Speg.
Sporangia sessile, densely gregarious, spherical, smooth, greyish-
white, after tbe spores have disappeared, snow-wbite; columella
absent; tubes of capillitium rigid, united to form a compact
network, internodes fusiformly thickened in the centre, nodes flattened;
spm-es in clusters or free, smooth, black, opaque, subangular
from mutual pressure, lo g diameter.
Badhamia melanosperma, Speg., Fung. Arg., Pug. I., p. 88;
Saco,, Syll., n. 1164.
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Badhamia coadnata, Rost.
Sporangia very numerous, conglomerated; sporangia springing
from a white, well-developed hypotiiallus ; capillitium threads
snow-white, copious, rigid, aggregated in the centre towards the
base of the sporangium to form an irregular columella; spores
globose, bright violet, epispore thick, smooth, 8—9 g diameter.