iridescent, shining with purple, blue,
and violet tints, with a thin layer of white granules of lime.
Capillitium of thick tubules, forming an open net-work of large meshes,
more or less expanded at the angles, the tubules coated within by a thin
layer of granules of lime. Spores subglobose, minutely warted, dark
violaceous, 10-13 mic. in diameter.

Growing on old wood, bark, herbaceous stems, etc. Sporangia .5-1.0 mm.
in diameter, usually growing in clusters, sometimes suspended by the
strings of membrane. Rostafinski's distinction between this and the
preceding species in regard to the spores holds good so far as my
specimens are concerned. _Badhamia magna_ Peck, I have never seen.
George Massee includes all four of these species in one composite
species, which he names _Badhamia varia_.

3. BADHAMIA PAPAVERACEA, B. & Rav. Sporangia subglobose or obovoid,
substipitate or sessile, growing close together; the wall a thin
violaceous membrane, rugulose and iridescent, with a very thin coat of
white granules of lime. Stipe very short, brown or blackish, sometimes
reduced to merely a thickened blackish base to the sporangium.
Capillitium of thick tubules, forming an open net-work of large meshes,
more or less expanded at the angles; the tubules with an inner lining of
very minute white granules of lime. Spores adhering together in clusters
of six to twenty, each spore subobovoid, the free portion more
distinctly warted, 10-12 mic. in diameter.

Growing on old wood, bark, etc. Sporangia .6-1.0 mm. in diameter.
Readily distinguished by its black base or black stipe and the elegant
clusters of its spores, which stick together most persistently.

4. BADHAMIA ORBICULATA, Rex. Sporangia much depressed, orbicular or
somewhat irregular, umbilicate often both above and below, gregarious,
sometimes growing close together and confluent, stipitate or sessile.
The wall a thin pellucid membrane, with a thin layer of minute granules
of lime, which are sometimes raised into small scales and fine ridges.
Stipe very short, black, sometimes reduced to merely a blackish base to
the sporangium. Capillitium of thick tubules, forming a scanty irregular
net-work, with wide expansions at the angles; the tubules filled with
white granules of lime. Spores subglobose, very minutely warted, dark
violaceous, 12-15 mic. in diameter.

Growing on old bark, herbaceous stems, etc. Sporangia .4-.8 mm. in
diameter, sometimes by confluence larger. This spe