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not until 1801, was the present generic name employed by Per- 
soon *—-even then only to denote a species—Cyathus Crucibulum. 
_ Schweinitz was the first to report Crucibulum crucibuliforme from 
this country under the name of Nidularia Crucibulum. He also 
described another species, Nidularia juglandicola which though 
retained as a good species of Crucibulum by De Toni,+ proves to - 
be a form of Crucibulum crucibuliforme, slightly larger and more 
flaring, but otherwise similar to the type species. Though the 
genus as represented by Crucibulum crucibuliforme is comparatively 
common and widely distributed, it is interesting to note in contrast 
with the genus Cyathia, which is very prolific of species, that only 
one other species has been described, viz., Cructbulum simile 
Massee t from New Zealand and Australia, and even this is said 
to resemble Crucibulum crucibuliforme closely. 
Bulliard § says that there are two varieties of Crucibulum 
both of which he figures, one glabrous, almost as smooth inside 
aS out, the other smooth inside but somewhat tomentose on 
the outside, and always larger and more yellow than the first. 
It has been noticed in examining quite a number of specimens 
from different localities that those collected in one place often vary 
Sreatly in size and color, and in the nature of the tomentose outer 
surface of the peridium. Cooke,|| in 1879, described a variety which 
he calls Zanxosum, and which De Toni says might possibly be Bul- 
liard’s second variety (figured on f/. zo) but as Cooke described it as 
“paler than in the usual form” this disposition cannot be correct. 
1. Crucibulum crucibuliforme (Scop.) — ». 
Peziza sessilis campanulata (b) Gled. Meth. Fung. 138. pl. 4. 
1753. 
feziza secunda Schaeft. F ung. Bav. et. Palat. Icon. 2: pl. 779. 
1763. 
: Peziza lentifera Oeder, Fl. Dan. 2: 9. pl. 105. 1763; not 
Linnaeus, 
Peziza crucibuliformis Scop. Flor. Carn. 2: 486. 1772 [Ed. 
2); Schaeff. Fung. Bav. et Palat.4: 125. 1774. 
*Syn. Meth, Fung. 239. _18ot. 
t Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 7: 44. 1888. 
t Grevillea, 19: 93. 1891. 
é Champ, I: 165. p/. go and pl. g88, 1809. 
|| Grevillea, 8: 58, 1879. 
