Physarum auriscalpium Cooke 1877

Physarum auriscalpium Cooke, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 11: 384. 1877
Badhamia iowensis Macbr. N. Am. Slime-Moulds ed. 2. 36. 1922.
Sporangiate, sessile, gregarious or clustered, subglobose or distorted by pressure, rarely with short stalks, 0.4-0.8 mm. in diameter, or forming short, straight, curved, or annulate plasmodiocarps, pallid to orange, green, or tawny; peridium membranous, yellowish or dark, covered with large, multicolored clusters of lime granules; capillitium dense, of large, branching, yellow or pallid nodes connected by short, hyaline threads; spores nearly black in mass, violetbrown by transmitted light, minutely warted, 9-12 ^ in diameter; Plasmodium orange or greenish.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Habitat: Dead wood, woody debris, and moss. Frequent on bark from living trees in culture. Distribution : Maine to Ontario, south to South Carolina and Colorado ; widely reported elsewhere but the species as here delimited (following Lister) has apparently been confused with others.