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small hypothallus ; mass of spores dark orange ; spores globose, 

 smooth, 5 7 p. diameter. 



Cribraria aurantiaca, Schrad., t. i., f. 3 4 ; Rost., Mon., 223, 

 f. 21; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 58, fig. 21; Schroet., p. 105; 

 Raunk., p. 50 ; Sacc., Syll., 1409. 



On decaying wood, especially pine. Britain (Carlisle, 

 Aboyne, Linlithgow); Sweden; Germany; Belgium; Hungary. 



Gregarious or scattered, 2 2'5 mm. high ; the nodes of the 

 network of the sporangial wall are numerous, large, and very 

 irregular, usually irregularly stellate, the rays tapering gradu- 

 ally and without much smooth internode, again expanding as 

 a ray of an adjoining node. Spores sometimes minutely 

 verruculose under a high power. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 Cribraria aurantiaca, Schrad., t. i., f. 3 4 (1797) ; Fr., S. M., 



iii. 174; Cke., Hdbk., 1169 ; B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 1037. 

 Cribraria vulgaris, ft aurantiaca, Pers., Syn., 194 (1801). 

 Trichia mfepcens, ft aurantiaca, Poir, Ency., viii. 31. 

 Cribraria aurantiaca y sulphured, Wallr., Fl. Gerrn. (1833). 

 Cribraria intermedia, Berk., Eng. Fl. v., 318 (1836); Cooke, 



Hdbk., 1166. 

 Cribraria variabilis, Ficinus Dresd., JT1. 269 (1838). 



Cribraria tenella, Schrad. 



Sporangia spherical, generally more or less cernuous, stipi- 

 tate, calyculus occupying about half the sporangium, broum, 

 shining, often perforated above, margin irregularly eroded, 

 nodes numerous, coloured, containing granules, small, more or 

 less circular in outline, connected by very delicate strands; 

 stem elongated, slender, subequal, often flexuous, brown, with 

 a tinge of purple ; spores globose, almost colourless, smooth, 

 5 7 n diameter. 



Cribraria tenella, Schrad., Nov. PI. Gen., p. 6, t. iii., f. 23 ; 

 Rost., Mon., p. 235, f. 23 ; Cooke, Myx. Brit., fig. 23 ; Schrocter, 

 p. 105; Sacc., Syll., no. 1411. 



On rotten wood. Germany ; Sweden ; Italy. 



