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a plant which was, without doubt, Cyathia lentifera. Loeselius,” 
and Marsilius,t made passing references to this same species, and 
in 1729 Michelit described and figured two species, citing one 
from the above-mentioned writers, and the second from Ray,§ 
Dillenius |] and Vaillant, { the latter species being unquestionably 
Cyathia striata, Linnaeus,** in 1753, gives under his section 
“ Acaules” of the genus Pesiza—Peziza campanulata lentifera, 
first referring to Hortus Cliffortianus (1737) where we find that 
the only species of Peziza which he gives, and to which he refers 
what is evidently a Cyathia is not a Peziza in the modern sense, 
but the first known type of Cyathia; and the only proof that he 
knew what a eziza really was, is his reference to Dillenius 11 
work published in 1719, in which a true Peziza is figured. Dil- 
lenius divided the Pezizae into two sections: (1) Membranacet 3 
tenuiores—the true Pezizae, and (2) Duriores calyciformes, semint 
Feri putati, under which head he gives Peziza calyciformis lentife a is 
laevis (our Cyathia lentifera) and Peziza calyciformis lentifera jur- 
suta’’ (our Cyathia hirsuta), 
The genus Cyathus was founded in 1768 by Haller, twelve 
years after Cyathia P. Br., and since that time many species have 
been described from nearly all parts of the world. Fischer tt 
states that there are forty-two known species. asad 
From our own country not many species have been i 
Schweinitz was the first to mention these plants ; in 1818 he name 
ten species, but not all of them are to be referred to the gen” 
Cyathia. In 1869 Berkeley & Curtis$§ described Cyathus pallidus 
from Cuba, also reporting Cyathus intermedius, Cyathus oi | 
Cyathus limbatus, Cyathus Poeppigit, Cyathus microsporus, “ie t 
Cyathus Lesueurit collected by Wright from the same islane. 
. ; i 
Berkeley, |||| in 1873, described from Connecticut, Cyathus Wasi 
T Dissert. Gen. Fung. 17. p/. a. 1714. 
{ Nov. Plant. Gen. 222. f/. ro2. Ju Ly #. 
@Syn, 3: 21. 1704, 
|| Giss. 196. 1719. 
{ Bot. Paris. 57. p/. rz. f. 4, 2 ORS yb 
** Sp. Pl. 2: 1180. 1793. 
TE c. 
tt Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 11**; 328, 1899. 
4% Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 346. 1869. 
||| Grevillea, 2: 34. 1873. 
1729. 
