Today, fungi on a myxomycete, arrowed near centre of photo.
I wanted to try and capture the arrangement in situ,
so added a drop of cotton blue, gave time to soak and
squashed very gently (unfortunately managed to put a smear
on the slide).
X100
Result at X100,
X1000
At X1000, the fungi is quite clear, (and so is the smeary slide).
X1000
Capillitium from the myxomycete, with the braided markings (no hooks), tappered ends and the pale yellow colour of spores, (Stephenson and Stempen) this looks to be Trichia botrytis, they mention fungi growing on myxomycetes in this fashion, the species they quote is Polycephalomyces tomentosus, but there are likely to be hundreds.
Cheers J.P.