llus by a narrow base, etc."

Massee, _Mon._, p. 304, translated this description, but misunderstood
what is said of the columella and is inclined to think the author did
not know a diderma when he saw one; which is pretentious, to say the
least!

[24] See also, after all our trouble, _Jour. Bot._, LVII., p. 106.

[25] See Fries, _Syst. Myc._, Vol. III., pp. 130, 137, Rost., _Mon._, p.
127, and _Rep. N. Y. State Mus._, XXXI., p. 55.

[26] It would seem that M. Massee would have written _T. reniformis_,
were this authentic.

[27] For further synonymy, see under _P. auriscalpium_, No. 49.

[28] Robt. E. Fries, _Ofvers. K. Vetens. Akad. Forh._, 1899, No. 3, p.
225.

[29] The Polish author wrote Tilmadoche instead of Physarum in each case
cited.

[30] Forms cited are chiefly those likely to be found in our neighboring
tropics, West Indies, etc.

[31] These little structures have a fairly architectural appearance and
may be called trabecules,--trabeculae, little beams.

[32] Dr. Cooke, who used the microscope, applied the _Monograph_
description to British forms occurring on leaves; proceeded further and
found the same situation in New York. Mr. Massee gives the species wide
range with spores 8-10 mu; average 9 mu; only a fraction too large;
evidently none 12-15 mu.

[33] If a sporangium of _L. tigrinum_ be mounted in water and treated to
weak solution of hydro-chloric acid we may easily discover that the
crystals, which so wonderfully adorn the outer wall in this and other
species, consist, in part at least, of calcium carbonate. We may also
discover that in the case before us the crystal or scale lies indeed
enclosed in a filmy sac of organic origin, and that could we have seen
the outer peridium as it came to form, we might probably have found it
made up largely of an ectosarcous foam in whose cavities the excreted
calcium found place for tabulate crystallization. In other species
listed, conditions are different, and the crystals assume a different
shape. The phrase "bicarbonate of lime" quoted in this connection in the
former edition of this work from Mr. Massee's _Monograph_, etc., is not
clear.

[34] Doubtless immature; _v. Mitteil. Naturwiss. Gesell. Wintert._, VI.,
p. 64, Lister quoted by Schinz.

[35] Vid. _Mycologia_, N. Y., Vol. IX., p. 328.

[36] See _Addenda, d_, p. 282 following.

[37] In the _Mycetozoa_, 2nd ed., p. 158, is cited _Stemonitis
virginiensis_ Rex as a synonym of this variet