. A monograph of the Mycetozoa, being a descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the British Museum. Illustrated with seventy-eight plates and fifty-one woodcuts. Myxomycetes. 108 ENDOSPORE^. [STEMONITACEiE. Subcohort 11.—AMAUROOH^TINE^. Sporangia single, or combined into an sethalium, without deposits of lime; capil- litium and spores dark-brown or violet-brown, rarely pale. Order I.—STBMONiTACBiE. Sporangia stipitate; sporangium- wall a simple delicate membrane, often evanescent; stalk ex- tending within the sporangium as a columella from which the branching threads of the ca
. A monograph of the Mycetozoa, being a descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the British Museum. Illustrated with seventy-eight plates and fifty-one woodcuts. Myxomycetes. 108 ENDOSPORE^. [STEMONITACEiE. Subcohort 11.—AMAUROOH^TINE^. Sporangia single, or combined into an sethalium, without deposits of lime; capil- litium and spores dark-brown or violet-brown, rarely pale. Order I.—STBMONiTACBiE. Sporangia stipitate; sporangium- wall a simple delicate membrane, often evanescent; stalk ex- tending within the sporangium as a columella from which the branching threads of the capillitium take their origin. KEY TO THE GENERA OF STEMONITACE^.. Sporangium-wall evanescent. Capillitium springing from all parts of the elongated columella, ultimate branchlets united to form a superficial net. (15) Stemoniti^ Fig. 23.—Stemonitis splendens Eost. a. Group of sporangia. Natural size. J. Portion of capillitium and columella. Magnified 42 times. Sporangium-wall evanescent. Capillitium as in Stemonitis, but not forming a superficial net, or only imperfectly towards the base of the sporangium. (16) Oomatricha. ,jj Fig. 24.—Coniatriclia ohtiisata Preuss. a. Group of sporangia. Natural size. h. Sporangium deprived of spores showing the capillitium. Magnified 16 times. Sporangium-wall evanescent. Columella reaching to the apex of the sporangium, capillitium springing from beneath the super- ficially expanded end of the cohimella. (17) Enerthenema. Fig. 25.—Enerthenema elegans Bowm. a. Group of sporangia. Twice the natural size. J>. Sporangium. Magnified 16 times. c. Sporangium deprived of spores, showing the capillitium. Magnified 16 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Botany; Lister, Arthur, 1830-1908. London, Printed by Or
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