Cribraria laxa Hagelst. 1929

Cribraria laxa Hagelst. Mycologia 21: 298. 1929
Sporangia closely gregarious, stipitate, erect, globose, 0.5-0.7 mm. in diameter, dark brown; stalk dark brown, furrowed, short, 0.7-1.4 mm. in height; cup occupying about one-third of the sporangium, strongly ribbed, with numerous cross veins connecting the ribs, between them a thin glistening membrane; net arising from the ribs, wide-meshed, the nodes large, thickened, dark brown, crowded with granules, the connecting threads slender and lax with few free ends; hypothallus very broad; spores ochraceous in mass, pale by transmitted light, warted, 6-7 p in diameter.
Type locality: Long Island, N. Y, Habitat: Dead leaves or small twigs. Distribution: New York and Pennsylvania.