Margarita metallica

Margarita metallica (Berk.) Lister, Mycet. 203. 1894
Physarum metallicum Berk. Mag. Zool. Bot. 1: 49. 1836.
Cornuvia metallica Rost. Monog. Append. 35. 1876.
Perichaena plasmodiocarpa A. Blytt, Forh. Vid.-Selsk. Christiania 1892 2 : 10. 1892.
Margarita pictoviana C. L. Moore, Proc. Trans. Nova Scot. Inst. 12: 196. 1910.
Sporangia scattered or clustered, sessile, globose or pulvinate, 0.2-1 mm. in diameter, or forming short plasmodiocarps ; peridium thin, translucent, or thicker when encrusted with granular material, dull yellow, coppery or iridescent, opening irregularly above; capillitium of long, flexuous, simple or sparsely branched solid threads, marked by a row of minute tubercles running around the thread in a long spiral, with infrequent attachments to the peridial wall; spores yellow in mass, pale yellow to nearly pallid by transmitted light, delicately war ted to distinctly spiny, 9— 12 n in diameter; Plasmodium waterywhite.
Type locality: England.
Habitat: Rotten wood and bark of living trees.
Distribution: Nova Scotia, New England, and New York to Washington and California;