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
Sporangia scattered, erect, stipitate, generally ellipsoidal, pyriform,
rarely globose; peridium membranaceous semi-transparent, studded
sparsely with rounded, pale yellow or yellow-gray lime-granules,
rupturing to the base into two or four segments; stipe variable,
slender, subulate, rugulose, flattened laterally toward the base,
translucent, dull red or golden red in color; columella four-fifths the
height of the sporangium, concolorous with the stipe, acuminate;
capillitium dense, persistent, the nodes frequently calcareous, rounded,
yellow; spore-mass brown, spores nearly smooth, brownish, 6-7 mu.
Readily recognizable by the elongate sporangia and the lengthened
columella unique among physarums. The capillitial nodes are at first
pale yellow, but tend to whiten on exposure. The spores when highly
magnified show delicate spinulescence.
Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Europe, Java.
27. PHYSARUM LUTEO-ALBUM _Lister_
1904. _Physarum luteo-album_ List., _Jour. Bot._, XLII., p. 130.
1911. _Physarum luteo-album_ List., _Mycetozoa, 2nd ed._, p. 48.
Sporangia gregarious, sub-globose, large, about 1 mm. in diameter,
yellow shading into white, orange or olivaceous, smooth or rugulose,
stipitate; stipe stout, smooth, .5-1 mm. high, yellow or orange above,
white below, cylindric, lime-stuffed; columella large, sub-globose or
clavate, yellow; capillitium either of very slender pale yellow,
threads, branching at acute angles and anastomosing or of broad, yellow
simple or forked strands, persistent after spore-dispersal; nodules few,
small, linear or fusiform; spores purple-brown, spinulose, 10-12 mu.
This species, originally described from England and northern Europe has
more recently been identified in material sent by Professor Sturgis from
Colorado. In description the form is well marked; evinces apparently
great variation alike in form, color, and structure.
The material we have, however, is poor, badly weathered.
The general plan of structure corresponds very well with Fries' idea of
his genus Tilmadoche, although the present species would seem, by very
grossness, strangely out of place with the tilmadoches. But the
singular, didermoid, evenly branching, threads of the capillitium,
bearing their slender spindle-shaped burdens of lime are very
suggestive; it is a diderma gone wandering into the camp of the
physarums if one may judge from Miss Lister's graphic plate.
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