wall brown

British

noun

any of three species of brown butterfly, esp the common Lasiommata megera, that habitually sun themselves on rocks and walls

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Sporangia very small, subglobose, sessile, collected together in clusters, or scattered, without any hypothallus; the wall brown, smooth and shining.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Sporangium globose, stipitate; the wall brown or blackish, soon disappearing.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

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