Notes on Cribraria minutissima and Licea minima. 
GEORGE A. REX. 
Cribraria minutissima Schwz. 
There isa marked discrepancy between the original de- 
scription of this species by Schweinitz! drawn from the type 
specimens now in the Schweinitzian herbarium in the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the later descriptions 
of Rostafinski and Massee which were drawn from the Schwein- 
itzian specimens in the Berkeleyan herbarium. 
The two specimens apparently differ in important points. 
The diagnostic description of Schweinitz, however, accur- 
ately describes the curiously shaped elongated sporangia of the 
type, which appear as if ellipsoidal when first developed, be- 
Coming finally constricted in the middle when mature. The 
sporangia have the appearance of being girt by a thread, ex- 
panding above and below into two nearly equal globose por- 
tions, the diameter at the central constriction being from one- 
half to three-fourths the diameter of the upper and lower por- 
tions. A longitudinal section through the center of a typical 
of band-like threads only occasionally wider at the intersec- 
Hons, and forming irregular meshes. ; 
The Berkeleyan specimen, on the contrary, is described as 
having no permanent wall or calyculus, but simply a perma- 
nent globose network of the same character as t 
n 
ear’ however, a fixed character, according to the o 
pa ye of the writer, who has seen associated both cons sh 
me “Aconstricted ellipsoidal sporangia, the latter approa 
“Shegy y the obovate sporangia of 
An important point necessary to be considered in this con- 
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Wey Schweinitz, L. D., Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media degen 
Foc. Am. Philos. Soc. 1831. [Philadelphia.] 
