968 WutteE: THe NIpULARIACEAE oF NorTH AMERICA 
sericeo, dense tomentoso, margine integro, crasso, 3-5 mm. alto, 
4-5 mm. lato, intus albo-flavescente; sporangiolis innumeris, 
lentiformibus, planis, tenue tunicatis, cinnamomeis, sericeis, I-1.2 
mm. diametro ; sporis ellipsoideis, obtusis, intus granulatis, hyalinis, 
7-8.5 x 4.5-5.5 4, episporio hyalino, tenui, levi. 
CatiForNiA: Potter Valley. On decaying wood (Sept. 1894). 
Purpus. * 
The original description is quoted, as no specimens of this 
species were seen, and until more material has been collected it 1s 
difficult to decide with any degree of certainty just where tt 
belongs. The author adds that this species appears to be related 
to Cyathia pallida. 
Ii. Cruciputum Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 1: 89. 1844 
Peridium composed of a single, homogeneous, though some- 
times layered, felt-like membrane, which is at first continuous Ove 
the mouth, forming a sort of epiphragm; sporangioles more nU- 
merous than in the preceding genus, and the funiculus is much less 
complex, consisting of a little bundle of elastic filaments gather 
closely together in a very thin, hardly noticeable outer covering, the 
upper end of which is attached to a nipple-like protuberance 0? 
the under surface of the sporangiole, and the lower end is attach 
to the inner wall of the peridium ; there are no filaments intermixe 
with the spores. 
Although the genus Crucibulum was not founded until 1844) 
for nearly a century and a half plants belonging to it have been 
known and unmistakably figured. Ray* in 1696, in a list of 
plants collected by D. Samuel Doody, mentions “ Fungus seminifer 
minor,” which he figured in 1724.+ Micheli, five years later, ga 
a good figure of Crucibulum crucibuliforme. As early as 1697 
Boccone f figured this plant, under the name of “ Fungus 7 eppareas 
calyculatus,’”’ but does not seem to give it more than this passing 
notice. Gleditsch,§ Schaeffer,|| Scopoli,{{ Hudson,** Hoffmant? 
and others made mention of this plant, under various names, but 
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* Syn. 333. 1696. [Ed. 2.] 
t Ray, Syn. 20, p/. 7. f. 26, ¢. 1724. [Ed. 3.] 
{ Mus. Fis. p/. 307. f. r. 1697. 
%,Meth. Fung. 138. A/. g. 1753. 
|| Fung. Bav. et Palat. Icon. 2: p/. 179. 1761; 4: 125. 1774. 
{ Flor. Carn. 2: 486. 1772. [Ed. 2.] 
**Flor. Ang. 2: 634. 1778. [Ed. 2.] 
Tt Vegt. Crypt. fasc. 2: 29. p/. 8. f. 1. 1790. 
