Cribraria 197 



Type locality: Long Island, New York. 



Habitat: On dead leaves, in the dryer parts of wet areas. 



Distribution: New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia. 



Illustration: Hagelstein, Mycologia 21: pi. 26, figs. 4-6. 



This handsome form is unique among the species of Cribraria 

 because of its habitat on leaves with the plasmodium in the sub- 

 stratum of the soil. All other species of Cribraria are on wood. 

 It somewhat resembles C. intricata, but the meshes of the net are 

 much larger, from four to nine times, in area, than those of the 

 latter species. It has been found repeatedly, in different years, 

 at the type locality, and several times in Pike County, Pennsyl- 

 vania. It is remarkably constant in all characters. 



11. Cribraria languescens Rex, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. 1891: 

 394. 1891. 



Cribraria cuprea Morg. Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. 15: 142. 1893. (N. Y. 

 B. G. nos. 5581, 12931, type material.) 



Plasmodium red (Lister). Total height 2.5 to 3 mm. Spo- 

 rangia scattered, stalked, often drooping, globose, 0.25 to 0.35 

 mm. diam., dull reddish or brownish; cup about one third the 

 height of the sporangium, brown, shining, studded with brown 

 plasmodic granules, 0.3-1.5 n diam., arranged in close lines radiat- 

 ing from the apex of the stalk; margin slightly toothed; nodes of 

 the net thickened, prominent, polygonal, connected by slender 

 threads ; meshes of the net triangular, with few free rays. Stalk 

 long and slender, four to ten times the height of the sporangium, 

 subulate, often sinuous or wavy, dark reddish brown. Spores 

 dull reddish or brownish in mass, pale red by transmitted light, 

 nearly smooth, 5-7 ix diam. 



Type locality : New York. 



Habitat: On dead wood. 



Distribution: Dominica, *Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, 

 *Missouri, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, *Saint Croix, 

 *South Carolina, *Washington, *Wyoming. 



Illustration: Lister, Mycetozoa ed. 3. pi. 145, figs. a-c. 



This species is rare in North America, although widely dis- 

 tributed, and some of the records may be doubtful as long stalked 

 phases of C. tenella are often confused with it. The important 

 distinctions are the reddish or brownish spores and the usually 

 smaller plasmodic granules. The spores, as in other species- of 



