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riate LIV., A,— a. to sporangia of various forms, with spores dispersed, 
X 20 ; d. part of net and margin of cup of sporangium, var. a, x ^80 ; 
e. part of net and margin of cap, var. /3, x 180 ; /. spores and plasmodic 
granules, x GOO (England). 
Rostafinski's specimens of C. vulgaris in Strassb. Herb., differ in no 
respect from his types of C. aurantiaca. In describing three forms 
of the first-named species, " a. genuina, /3. aurantioides, y. ddicatula," 
he recognises the great variability to which it is subject, and points 
out how closely his form /3 approaches C. aurantiaca. Gatherings of 
this species at Lyme Regis, from the same fir logs, in consecutive 
years, show variations in the cup, net, and colour, which illustrate 
the characters given in Rostafinski's description and figures of both 
C. aurantiaca and C. vulgaris ; it would therefore appear necessary to 
place the latter name as a synonym for the wide species C. aurantiaca. 
Hah. On dead fir-wood. — Lyme Regis, Dorset (L:B.M.109) ; Luton, 
Beds (L:B.M.109) ; Glamis, Scotland (B. M. 246, 247) ; France (Paris 
Herb.) ; Germany (B. M. 673, 674) ; Poland (Strassb. Herb.) ; 
Philadelphia (L:B.M.109). 
7. C. splendens Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 191 (1801). Plasmodium? 
Total height P5 mm. Sporangia globose, stipitate, erect or 
inclined, scattered, 0*3 mm. diam., nut-brown; sporangium- wall 
consisting in the lower half of about nine free ribs with little 
trace of a persistent cup, continued into a loose net with narrow, 
somewhat triangular nodes. Stalk slender, brown, four or five 
times the length of the sporangium. Spores. pale ochre, almost 
smooth, 5 fx diam. — E,ost., Mon., p. 236; Mass., Mon., p. 64. 
Bictydium splendens Schrad,, Nov. Gen. PI., p. 14 (1797). 
Plate LIII., B. — e. sporangia after dispersion of spores, x 50 ; /. part 
of net of sporangium, x 180 ; g. spore and plasmodic granules, x 600 
(Germany : Kostafinski's type). 
The description given above is drawn from the specimen from the 
Feldberg near Freiberg, in Strassb. Herb., referred to by Rostafinski, 
I.e. It differs from C. aurantiaca, )3, in the strong ribs taking 
the place of a hemispherical cup ; in one sporangium the ribs branch 
into a broad net from the apex of the stalk. The persistent 
membranous wall mentioned by Rostafinski has almost disappeared 
in this soniewhat injured specimen ; but as the permanence of the 
membrane is met with occasionally in nearly every species of Cribraria, 
the character is not of great value. 
Eal. On dead fir-wood.— Feldberg, Germany (Strassb. Herb • 
L:B.M.110 slide). 
8. C. intricata Schrad., Nov. Gen. PI., p. 7 (1797) 
Plasmodium? Total height 1-5 to 3 mm. Sporangia globose* 
stipitate, nodding or erect, gregarious, 0-5 to 0-7 mm. diam.! 
ochraceous-brown ; cup one-third the height of the sporangium 
or wanting, yellow-brown, beset with brown plasmodic granules 
0-5 to 2 /A diam., arranged in close lines radiating from the base 
of the sporangium; margin more or less irregularly tootlied • 
net close, regular; nodes numerous, dark brown, thickened' 
prominent, polygonal, often branching, with many free rays and 
