Waite: THE NIDULARIACEAE OF NortH AMERICA 259 
Cyathus intermedius (Mont.) Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 1: 72. 
pl. 4.f. 4-7. 1844. 
Peridia cup-shaped, not rounded at the base, 7-9 mm. high, 
6-8 mm. wide at the top, 1-2 mm. at the base, lightish brown, 
clothed with fine hairs which grow in clusters, the tips of several 
of which join together in little outwardly curved tufts, thin and 
showing the inner sulcate markings through in the older peridia ; 
Inner surface brown, shiny, sulcate-striate ; the mouth straight, not 
flaring, clothed with a circle of short stiff bristles; the sporangi- 
oles about 2 mm. in diameter, flattened, blackish, depressed be- 
neath, somewhat angular with a short attachment; spores hya- 
line, 12-18 w long, 6-9 wide, thick-walled. (Pl. rg. f. 8-0; 
pl. 18. f. 78.) 
Growing in loose soil and on decaying wood. 
[Cusa: Ramon de la Sagra. | 
DELAWARE: Faulkland, Commons. 
This species was originally described from Cuba; it differs 
from Cyathia hirsuta in the character of the tomentose outer cov- 
ering of the peridium, and in the shorter and more rudimentary 
attachment of the sporangioles to the inner peridial wall. 
4. Cyathia hirsuta (Schaeff.) 
Peziza lentifera B Linn. Sp. Pl, 2: 1180. 2755 
Pesiza sessilis campanulata villosa Scop. Fl. Carn. 57. 17 60. 
i prima Schaeff. Fung. Bay. et Palat. Icon. 2: p/. 7 78. 
1763. 
Crathus hirsutus intus striatus Hall. Stirp. Helvet.3: 127. 1768. 
Pesiza cyathiformis Scop. p. p.* Fl. Carn. 2: 486. 1772. 
[Ed. 2.] 
Pesiza hirsuta Schaef Fung. Bay. et Palat.4: 124. 1774- 
Pesiza striata Huds. Flor. Ang. 634. 1778. [Ed. a1 
Peziza hirsuta Batsch, Elench. Fung. 127. 1783. 
_ Nidularia striata With. Bot. Arrang. 3: 446. 1792 [Ed. 2]; 
Sibth, Fy, Ox. 393. 1794; Fries. Syst. Mycol. 3: 298. 1822; 
Schwein, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4: 252. 1834. 
é Cyathus striatus Willd. FI). Berol. 399. 17873 Hoffm. Les 
Typt. fase. 2: 33. pl. 8. f. 3. 1790; Pers. Syn. Meth. Fung. 237. 
hee Nees, Syst. 140. 1817; DC. Fl. Fr. 2: 269. 1805; an. 
mn. Sei. Nat. III. x: 67. 1844. 
* As the 
. maa . . . dén- 
tifera this first cited reference under the description of this species belongs to C. Ze 
name cannot be taken up for this species. 
