64 A ]\[(mo(jraj>h of the Myxogastres. 



very thin threads connecting large, brown, irregularly stellate 

 knots crowded \Yith granules ; stem slender, very muck elongated, 

 straight or flexuous, erect, or curved above, hro'ivnish intrph ; 

 spores very pale, globose, minutely verruculose, 5 — 7 ju, diameter. 



Crih-aria microcarpa, Rost., Mon., p. 236; Schroeter, p. 105; 

 Karst., Myc. Fenn., iv., p. 86; Sacc, SylL, no. 1413. 



Exsicc. — Ellis, North Amer. Fung,, 1398 (as Cribraria tenellet, 

 Schrad.) ; Rav. Fung. Car., 79 (as C. intrieatct). 



On decayed pine-wood and on sphagnum. Britain (Cleve- 

 don, Bristol) ; Germany ; Sweden ; Finland ; United States. 



Gregarious, 2'5 — 3 mm. high. Distinguished amongst species 

 without a calyculus by the small sporangium and elongated 

 stem ; also by the elongated, flattened, radiating ribs at the 

 base of the network, thus approaching the type of structure 

 on which Rostafinski's genus Hetcroclictyon was founded, 



Cribraria splendens, Rost. 



Sporangia globose, stipitate, erect, yellowish, calyeulns not 

 differentiated, membrane bettveen the thickened portions for a long 

 time 2Jcrsi$tent ; nodes large, angular, containing granules ; stem 

 elongated, slender, sometimes flexuous, pm^i^k-brown ; spores 

 pale yellow, globose, smooth, 5 — 7 /^ diameter. 



Cribraria splendens, Rost., Mon., p. 236 ; Karst., Myc. Fenn., 

 iv., p. 85; Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 50, t. ii., f. 6; Sacc, SylL, 

 n. 1414. 



On rotten pine-wood. Germany ; Finland ; Sweden ; Switzer- 

 land. 



Scattered, about 2 mm. high, stem about three times as long 

 as sporangium. Distinguished by the very persistent nature 

 of the membrane between the thickened portions. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Dictydium splendens, Schrad., Nov. PI. Gen., p. 14, t. iv., 



f. 5—6 (1797). 

 Grih-aria spilendens, Pers. Syn., p. 191 (1801). 

 Triehia splendens, Poir., Eucy., 1. c. viii., no. 28 (1808). 



