The North American Slime-Moulds: A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species — John Shaqi
The North American Slime-Moulds: A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital SpeciesMacbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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The North American Slime-Moulds: A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species
Macbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Myxomycetes
This is _Badhamia hyalina_ (Pers.) Berk., Rost., _Mon._, p. 139; but
Rostafinski himself admits that the two species, here united, as he
defined them, are very much alike, having "the same spores and
capillitium", differing in the form of the sporangium, an inconstant
feature. Bulliard's name has precedence; his descriptions of this and
the preceding species are remarkable.
The peculiarly adherent spores distinguish the species from _B.
utricularis_; and the sporangia sessile or with short but strand-like
stipes, distinguish it from _B. papaveracea_.
The description above is for the typical European form. Lister expresses
doubt whether this occurs in the United States. The form from Iowa which
is the basis for the inclusion of the species in N. A. S. is, we
believe, nothing else than _B. capsulifera_ (Bull.) Berk. The form
approaches _B. populina_ as this is presented in Colorado. The Iowa
specimens are white, aggregate, superimposed, etc., but have the
capillitium and spores exactly as described for the type. Accordingly
_B. populina_ as this occurs in Colorado has been for years referred to
the Berkeley species. The thicker more strongly calcareous peridia
constitute, as would appear, the principal difference in the forms from
Colorado. See next species.
13. BADHAMIA POPULINA _List._
1904. _Badhamia populina_ List. _Jour. Bot._, XLII., p. 129.
1911. _Badhamia populina_ List. _Mycetozoa, 2nd ed._, p. 32.
Plasmodium white; sporangia sessile, crowded, heaped, large, 1.5 mm.,
rarely stipitate, globose or ovoid, white; stipe when present brown;
capillitial strands broad, calcareous; spores clustered, 16-20 in a
cluster, purple-brown, roughened and sometimes marked by obscure ridges
and bands, 10-12 mu.
Generally distinguishable by its unusually large calcareous, white
sporangia. The peridia are strongly calcareous, shell-like in texture.
In some cases the color is tinted with rose.
This species is very near _B. capsulifera_ as recognized in the United
States. When white the Colorado material corresponds almost exactly with
the forms collected in Iowa, and regarded as representing the species
just named. The Colorado gatherings are more strongly calcareous and the
spores sometimes present the variations named. "The Colorado phase of
the American form."
Colorado,--_Bethel_. Europe?
14. BADHAMIA PAPAVERACEA _Berk. & Rav._
PLATE IX., Figs. 6, 6_a_, and 6_b_.
1873. _Badhamia papaveracea_ Berk. & Rav., _Grev._, II., p. 66.
1894. _Badhamia hyalina_ var. _papaveracea_ Lister, _Mycetozoa_,
p. 30.
1899. _Badhamia papaveracea_ Berk. & Rav., Macbr., _N. A. S._, p. 69.
1911. _Badhamia papaveracea_ Berk. & Rav., List., _Mycetozoa,
2nd ed._, p. 32.
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