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[CRIBHARIA. 
connected by very slender more or less parallel threads. Stalk 
subulate, two to four times the height of the sporangium, dark 
brown. Spores ochraceous, nearly smooth or faintly warted, 
5 to 6 /A diam. — Eost., Mon., p. 237; Cooke, Myx, Brit., p. 59; 
Mass., Mon., p. 59; Macbride, in Bull. Nat. HLst. Iowa, ii., 
p. 119. Cribraria clictydioicles Cooke & Balf., in E,av. Fung. 
Amer., p. 475; Mass., Mon., p. 65. C. Balfourii de Bary, 
in Herb. 
a. genuina : cup about one-third the height of the sporangium, 
dictydioides : cup almost or quite obsolete ; the nodes in 
the lower part of the net elongated and confluent, forming ribs 
converging to the apex of the stalk. 
Plate LIV., B. — a, h. sporangia after dispersion of spores, a. (icnuina, 
X 20 ; c. part of net and cup of sporangium, x 180 (Borneo) ; sporangium 
after dispersion of spores, ^. dictydioides, x 20 (S. Carolina, U.S.A. : type 
of C, dictydioides Cooke & Balf.) ; e. spore and plasmodic granules, x 600. 
The specimens in the Strassburg and Kew Herbaria (K. 9G3, 1673) 
named Cribraria Balfourii de Bary, on Sphagnum from the hot 
stoves of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, are small develop- 
ments of ^. dictydioides. Nearly similar forms have been obtained in 
orchid-houses at Lamberhurst, Kent. 
Hab. On dead wood.— ^. Bristol (L:B.M. Ill s?.if?e) ; ^. hot stove R. 
Bot. Gardens, Edinburgh (L:B.M.lll) ; ft. Java (B. M. 1107); a. 
Borneo (L:B.M.lll) ; a. and ft. Philadelphia (L:B.M.lll) ; a. S. 
Carohna (B. M. 677) ; ft. S. Carolina (B. M. 680, 681, 940). 
9. C. tenella Schrad., Nov. Gen. PI., p. 6 (1797). This species 
resembles C. inti-icata in size, shape, colour, and spores. Cup 
one-third the height of the sporangium, or more or less obsolete. 
Net close, regular ; nodes numerous, dark brown, rounded, 
rarely elongated, prominent, with few or no free rays, connected 
by three to six very slender threads. — Eost., Mon., p. 235 ; 
Mass., Mon., p. 58. G. elata Mass., Mon., p. 61. 
Plate LIV., B.— /. sporangium after dispersion of spores, x 20 ; ^. part of 
net of sporangium, x 180 (Ceylon: Eostafinski's type); 7i. part of net 
and margin of cup, x 180 (Philadelphia, U.S.A.) ; /. spore and plasmodic 
granules, x 600. 
Both C. tenella and C. intricata are abundant in the United States, 
where frequent intermediate forms occur connecting them with 
one another. The specimen figured from Ceylon (K. 1684), referred 
to by Rostafinski, Mon., App., p. 31, as a type of C. tenella, has 
a small cup, rounded or elongated prominent nodes, with no free rays ; 
it is similar to the specimens received from Dr. Rex from the United 
States under that name. Mr. Massee has raised it to the rank of 
a species as C. elata. 
Hab. On dead wood. — Orchid house, Lamberhurst, Kent (L:B.M.112); 
Ceylon (K. 1684) ; Philadelphia (L:B.M.112) ; N. Carohna 
(L:B.M.112). 
