966 WuuteE: THe NIDULARIACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
not seen; the measurement being taken from some mss. notes on. 
Cyathus by Massee, made from the type of C. Wrighti at Kew. 
De Toni gives the measurement in Saccardo as “15 » long by 10 
p wide.” 
13. Cyathia stercorea (Schwein.) 
Nidularia stercorea Schweinitz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 4: 253 
1834. 
Cyathus Lesueurti Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 1: 79. pl. 5: £ 
5-13. 1844. 
Cyathus Lesueurii, var. minor Tul. 7. c. 80. 
Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 
7: 40. 1888. 
_ Peridia slender, campanulate, sessile or with an elongated 
slender base, .5—1.5 cm. high, 4-8 mm. wide at the top, I-3 mm. 
at the base ; outer surface brownish fawn-colored, the young plants 
being strigose with a copious covering of shaggy hairs, which 
gradually disappear, leaving the mature peridium almost smooth, 
or marked with circular depressed zones ; inner surface smooth, 
shiny, lead-colored, somewhat darker toward the base ; the mouth 
entire or at first appearing fimbriate from the surrounding hairy 
covering, but not ciliate-fimbriate ; sporangioles blackish-lead- 
colored, smooth, shiny, 2 mm. in diameter, depressed beneath ; 
_ spores 25-30 1 long, 20-25 yw wide, thick-walled, hyaline, granU- 
lar within. (72. 15. f. 17-20; pl. 16. f. 1, 2.) 
Growing on manure, bits of wood, etc. ‘ 
Exsice.: E. & E. Fungi Columbiani, 644 (as Cyathus verm- 
cosus) ; Ravenel, Fungi Amer. Exsic. 473 (as Cyathus yernicosus)s 
474 (as Cyathus Lesueurit) ; Ravenel, Fungi Car. Exsic. 35 72 (as 
Cyathus campanulatus); Ellis, N. A. Fungi, 1308 (Cyathus verm- 
cosus) ; Shear, N. Y. Fungi, 316. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Schweinits ; New York : Underwood, Shear : 
Brown, Vail ; Massacuuserts: Ellis, Knight ; Maine: Harveys 
New Jersey : E//is ; DEvaware: O. S. ; Sour CAROLINA: Ravenel; 
Vireinia : Murrill ; lowa : Langlois ; Inpiana : Underwood, Arthur 
Oxn10: Morgan, Lloyd; Atapama: F. S. Earle & C. F- Baker ; 
Tuskegee, Carver; Kansas: Cragin, 273; COLORADO: Bakers 
Nesraska : Williams ; New Mexico: F. S. Earle & E. S. Harle 
Cockerell ; CanaDa : Dearness, 1149. fiz 
This species varies very much as to size, shape and smoe 
ness of the peridium, which facts have been rather misleading; but 
