2958 Wuite: THe NIDULARIACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
1. Cyathia Poeppigii (Tul.) 
Cyathus Poeppigit Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 1: 77- pl. 4.f 
23-25; pl. 5. f. 3-4. 1844. 
Peridia slender, goblet-shaped, 7-12 mm. high, 5-7 mm. Hs 
at the top, about 1 mm. at the base of the stem, dark chocolate 
brown, the outer surface somewhat shaggy, peeling, leaving - 
comparatively smooth, deeply and closely striated surface, he 
sponding with the deep inner striations, the inner surface pe ’ 
somewhat lighter colored than the outer surface, somewhat ee 
deeply striate ; mouth minutely fimbriate ; sporangioles blacki 2 
flattened, dull, 2-2.5 mm. in diameter; funiculus long; pe : 
38-45 » long, 18-22 yw in diameter, very thick-walled, granwie 
within, oblong and often slightly curved. (P/. 14. f. 1-4-) 
Growing singly and in groups on manure and wet ground. 
St. Crorx (Danish West Indies): A. £. Ricksecker. ‘ 
This species was originally described from Cuba and Frene 
Guiana ; it is easily distinguished from the other striated Be 
of Cyathia by its unusually large spores, and by its deeply aa 
closely striated outer surface. 
2. Cyathia Berkleyana (Tul.) 
Cyathus microsporus B Berkleyanus Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. HI. 1: 
74. 1844. oe 
Peridia small, cup-shaped, 5-8 mm. high, 5-7 mm. wie h 
the top, very much narrowed and rounded at the base, br 
outside and somewhat shaggy; mouth finely fimbriate, the wees 
surface of the peridium shiny, grayish-brown, lighter colored Eg 
the outer, coarsely striate ; sporangioles small, 2 mm. in wae } 
shiny, nearly black, flattened; spores small, 6-8» long, 4 p 
wide, somewhat thick-walled, hyaline. (Pl. 74, f. 5-7-) 
On decayed stems of coarse herbaceous plants. 
Jamaica: Cockerell. 
This species was originally described from Brazil ; it ou 
what resembles small specimens of Cyathia hirsuta, but it differs 
from that species in the texture of the outer coat, which is much 
less shaggy and thick, and in the much smaller spores. 
3. Cyathia intermedia (Mont.) 
Nidularia intermedia Mont. ; Sagra, Hist. Phy. Pol. Cuba, 321: 
1838-42. 
