se to refer it here.

The color of the plasmodium is quoted from Miss Lister; a fact of some
importance only when constant and confirmed by other criteria.

Iowa; Toronto,--_Miss Currie._

11. BADHAMIA UTRICULARIS (_Bull._) _Berk._

1791. _Sphaerocarpus utricularis_ Bull., _Champ._, p. 128, t. 417,
Fig. 1.
1826. _Physarum utriculare_ Chev., _Fl. Paris_, I., p. 337.
1829. _Physarum utriculare_ Fries, _Syst. Myc._, III., p. 139.
1852. _Badhamia utricularis_ (Bull.) Berk., _Tr. Linn. Soc._, XXI.,
p. 153.

Sporangia clustered, spherical or ovoid, large, sessile or mounted on
long, thin, strand-like stalks, blue-gray, violet-iridescent or
cinereous, smooth or more often rugulose; the stipes when present poorly
differentiated, as if thread-like filaments and strips of the
plasmodium, often branched and always reclining or even prostrate;
hypothallus none; capillitium a large-meshed open network of rather
slender tubules, the nodes unequally developed, white with the enclosed
lime; spores not strictly adherent though not without some tendency to
stick together, delicately warted, bright violet-brown, 10-12 mu.

This species resembles _B. capsulifera_, but is distinguished by a more
strongly rugulose less calcareous peridium and a more profuse
development of filamentous stipes, but especially by the character of
the spores. The spores of the present species while inclined, when
mounted in a liquid, to stay together, nevertheless do not coalesce in
heaps as in the related species, nor do they show any differentiation in
the episporic markings, these being uniform over the entire spore.

This is one of the finest and perhaps the most beautiful species of this
fine genus. It is a forest species, generally to be found on trunks of
fallen _Populus_ or _Tilia_ where the fine soft gray colonies often
spread for several inches along the ridges and in crevices of the bark.

Colorado (_Bethel_); Mississippi valley and east.

12. BADHAMIA CAPSULIFERA (_Bull._) _Berkeley_.

1791. _Sphaerocarpus capsulifer_ Bull., _Champ._, p. 139, t. 470,
Fig. 2.
1801. _Physarum hyalinum_ Pers., _Syn. Meth. Fung._, p. 170.
1852. _Badhamia capsulifera_ Berk., _Tr. Lin. Soc._, XXI., p. 153.
1852. _Badhamia hyalina_ Berk., _Tr. Lin. Soc._, XXI., p. 153.
1875. _Badhamia hyalina_ (Pers.) Rost., _Mon._, p. 139.
1875. _Badhamia capsulifera_ (Bull.) Rost., _Mon._, p. 141.
1894. _Badhamia hyal