From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, April, 1893.

THE MYXOMYCETES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, OHIO.

By A. P. Morgan.

Second Paper.

(Read May 2, 1893.)


Order III. PERICHÆNACEÆ.

Sporangia sessile or plasmodiocarp; the wall a thin membrane, with a more or less thickened outer layer of minute brownish scales and granules. Capillitium of long and very slender tubules, proceeding from numerous points of the sporangial wall, loosely branched, forming no evident network, the surface minutely warted or spinulose. Spores globose, oval, or somewhat irregular, yellow.