This is Physarum rubiginosum Chevallier, Flor de Paris.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
The peasants who had been saved from starving by Flor Silin now gathered around him.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
7. The fame of Flor Silin's benevolence having reached other villages, the famished inhabitants presented themselves before him, and begged for corn.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey