Two New Alpine Myxomycetes from Washington

SUMMARY

Two new species of Myxomycetes are described from the mountains of Washington. Licea hepatico appears to be restricted to leafy liverworts and is characterized by sessile, minute sporangia, 100–120 μ in diameter, which have thin, iridescent peridia indistinctly divided into platelets. Comatricha anastomosans forms stalked, elongated sporangia whose peridia persist as well-defined basal cups. The most distinctive characteristic of this taxon, however, is the lateral fusion of the sporangia by interconnections of the capillitia.