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elongated, becoming tliinner upwards, usually slightly curved
at tbe apex, filled witb irregular masses of lime, Iroionish below,
pale upioards, expanding into a small hypothallus; capillitium
well developed, threads thin, combined to form a very irregular
network, furnished with scattered, smcdl, elliptical nodes containing
granules of lime; spores globose, pale lilac, smooth, or very
minutely verruculose, 9—11 g diameter.
Tilmadoche nutans, Rost., Mon., p. 127, f 129 ; Cooke, Myx.
Brit., p. 21, f. 129; Sacc., Syll, vii., 1, n. 1244; Raunk., p. 76,
t. 4, f. 10—11.
Exsicc.—Rab., Fung. Eur., 40 (tbe specimen shows a transition
to Physarum leucopihaeum); Saco., Myc. Fenn., 1102; Syd., Myo.
March., 491; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1456 and 1 4 5 ^ Jack,
Leiner u. Sitzenb., 423.
Cn wood, bark, dead leaves, &c. Britain (Bournemouth, New
Forest, Kew, Chester, Scarboro’, Carlisle, Inverness, N.B.);
Europe; N. Africa; United States; Ceylon ; Australia ; India.
From 1'5—2'5 mm. high, gregarious, stem slender, usually
slightly bent at the apex, consequently the sporangium is more
or less drooping.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Sphaerocaipus albus, Bull., t. 407, f. 3, c—g (1791).
Stemonitis alba, Gmel. Sys., 1469 (1791).
Mucor albus, Sobolen. Petr., 324 (1779).
Physarum nutans, Pers., Syn., p. 171 (1801; Berk., Eng. Fi.,
V., 314; Cooke, Hdbk., n. 1135 (partly).
Physarum subtile, Pers., Syn., p. 171 (1801).
Trichia ecrnua, Schum., Saell., 1410 (1803).
Physarum bulbiforme, Sebum., Saell., 1432 (1803); FI. Dan.,
t. 1974, f. 3.
Physarum marginatum, Schum., Saell, 1440 (1803).
Physarum didymium, Schum., Saell, 1441 (1803),
Physarum albopunetatum, Schum., Saell, 1433 (1803).
Physarum brevipes, Schum., Herb.
Physarum cinereum, Schum., Herb.
Physarum leucopus, Schum., Herb.
Trichia alba, DC., FL Fr., ii., 202 (1805).
Physarum albipes, Link, Diss., i., 27 (1809).
Physarum sulcatum. Link, Diss., i., 27 (1809).
Physarum connectum, Ditm., t. 41 (1817).
Physarum cernuum, FI. Dan., t. 1974, f. 2 (1823).
Physarum nutans, a. albocinereum, Fr., S. M., iii., 128 (1829).
Didymium marginatum, Fr., S. M., iii., 116 (1829).
Tilmadoche eernua, Fr., S. V. S., 454 (1849).
Tilmadoche mutabilis, Rost. (figs. 236—239).
Sporangia spherical or spherioo-depressed, flattened or slightly
umbilicate below, wall tbin, with a thin layer of yelloio, dingy
orange, or greenish coloured particles of lime, usually cracking iu
an areolate manner; stem elongated, slender, slightly thinner
upwards, straight or usually a little curved at the apex, filled
with granules of lime, yelloio, brownish-orange, or red, darkest
below; capillitium rather dense, threads slender, combined to
form a very irregular network, witb scattered, small, elliptical
nodes containing coloured granules of lime; spores globose, pale
lilac, often with a brown tinge, minutely verruculose, 9—11 g
diameter.
Tilmadoche mutabilis, Rost., Mon., p. 130, figs. 123—127,132;
Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 22, figs. 123—127, 132; Raunk., Myx.
Dan., p. 77,
Tilmadoche viridis, Sacc., Syll, vii., 1, n. 1247.
Exsiee.—Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 1213.
Gn wood, bark, dead leaves, moss, &o. Britain (New Forest,
Epj>ing Forest, Bulmer, Yorks.; Carlisle); Europe; S. Africa;
W. Australia; United States.
Differing from Tilmadoche nutans in colour more than in any
other character.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Stemonitis viridis, Gmel, Sys., ii., 1469 (1791).
Stemonitis aurantia, Gmel, Sys., ii., 1469 (1791).
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