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Badhamia coadnata, Rost., Mon., p. 146; Saoc., Syil., vii., 1,
n. 1142.
(Rostafinski’s Synonym.)
Didymium crustaceum, M.
Badhamia faseieulata, Rost.
Sporangia globose, white, dehiscing irregularly, upper portion
disappearing, lower portion persistent, irregnlarly cupulate with
a torn margin; stems fasciculate, caespiioso-connaie, 3—6 or more,
connected at the base, erect, tough, dirty yellowish, shining,
attenuated upwards, subsulcate, base thickened, blackish ; spores
violet, 11—12 ft diameter, smooth.
Badhamia faseieulata, Rost., Mon., p. 146; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1,
n. 1143.
On trunks of Pandanus. Java.
(Rostafinski’s Synonym.)
Physarum fasciculatum, Jungh., FL Crypt, Java, p. 14, t. 11,
f. 8 (1838).
Badhamia ovispora, Racib.
Sporangia sessile, globoso-depressed. O'5—0’75 mm. broad,
membrane calcareous, scabrid, fragile, base yellow, apex discoloured
; capillitium with abundance of lime, white, rigid,
nodes large, irregular; columella absent; spores violet, ellipsoid,
smooth, 14—16 x 7—8 g.
Badhamia ovispora, Racib., Myx. Crac., p. 4, f. 2, a, b; Sacc.,
Syll, 1165.
On poplar branches. Poland.
§ I § § Position uncertain.
Badhamia fulvella, Berk.
Sporangia gregarious, but not forming distinct patches, sessile,
globose, blackish, invested with a delicate tawny pubescence,
when tlie spores are expelled, yellowish; capillitium not coloured,
tubes swollen; spores dark violet, agglutinated in clusters,
'0125—'018 mm.
Badhamia fulvella. Berk., Trans, Linn. Soc., xxi., p. 154;
Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 27; Sacc., Syll., vii., 1, n. 1166.
On dead wood. Britain (East Bergholt, Suffolk).
I have seen no specimen of the present, hence cannot add to
Berkeley’s description.
Tilmadoche, Rost.
Sporangia stipitate, wall thin, single, witb a thin deposit of
lime in the form of minute, irregular lumps, either continuous
or most frequently in patches, dehiscing in an irregularly
reticulate manner; stem elongated, slender, filled with irregular
particles of lime, becoming longitudinally w-rinkled when dry;
columella absent; capillitium well developed, threads slender,
attached to the wall at various points, combined to form an
irregular network, nodes small, scattered, mostly elliptical, filled
witb granules of lime.
Tilmadoche, Rost., Mon., p. 126; Cooke, Myx. Brit, p. 21;
Sacc., Syll, vii., 1, p. 359 ; Zopf, p. 148.
The present genus is characterized amongst its allies by the
thin sporangial wall furnished with a scanty deposit of lime
in the form of minute, amorphous granules, the slender threads
of tbe capillitium with small, sparinglj' scattered elliptical nodes
containing lime, and the elongated, slender stem filled witb
lumps of lime. Closely allied to the genus Physarum, with
which it is connected by a form of Tilmadoche nutans, having
tlie capillitium threads stouter, and tbe nodes larger and more
numerous than usual. Another form of the same species having
tbe capillitium very slender and without nodes connects witb
tbe Hemididymium section of Didymium.
Tilmadoche nutans. Rost. (figs. 19—21).
Sporangia spherico-depressed, more or less umbilicate below,
wall thin, greyish or white, with a tbin layer of minute, amorphous
lumps of lime, becoming irregularly cracked; stem slender,