Myxomycetes of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

One hundred and sixty-eight taxa of myxomycetes are listed for the Great Sm oky Mountains National Park. This total includes 92 species reported in the literature and/or represented by material deposited in the National Fungus Collections (BPI) and 75 species and one variety not previously known from the Park but obtained as field and/or moist chamber culture collections du ring the period of 1982 to 1999. Four of the latter (Lamproderma granulosum , Licea microscopica, L. rufocuprea and L. sambucina) are new records for N orth America.