270 Wuure: THe NIDULARIACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
Pesiza laevis Huds. Fl. Ang. 634. 1778. [Ed. 2.] 
Cyathus cylindricus Willd. F\. Berol. 399. 1787. 
Cyathus crucibuliformis Hoffm. Veg. Crypt. fasc. 2, 29. pl. & 
me £s 1700: 
Nidularia laevis Bull. Champ. 1: 164. pl. 448. f. 2. pl. 40. 
1791; With. Bot. Arrang. 3: 446. 1792 [Ed. 2]; Sibth. Fl. 
Ox. 393. 1794. 
Cyathus Crucibulum Pers. Syn. Fung. 238. 1801; Nees, Syst. 
Sa Sf 599. 817. 
Cyathus laevis DC. Fl. Fr. 2: 269. 1805. 
Nidularia Crucibulum Secret. Mycogr. Suisse, 3: 378. 1833; 
Schwein. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 4: 253. 1834. 
Nidularia juglandicola Schwein. Trans. Am, Phil. Soc. 4: 253: 
1834. 
Crucibulum vulgare Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 1: 90. pl. 6.f 
9-24. pl. 7. f. r. pl. 8. f. 13-17. 1844. 
Crucibulum juglandicolum De Toni ; Sacc. Syll. Fung. '7: 44 
1888. 
Peridia 5-10 mm. high, 5-10 mm. across at the top, 4-7 ™™- 
at the base, cylindrical-campanulate, base truncate or but slightly 
contracted; outer surface dirty cinnamon or grayish fawn-color, 
young plant minutely velvety tomentose, becoming smoother w! 
age; the inner surface smooth, shiny and whitish; mouth en- 
tire, firm and even, sometimes slightly contracted, sporangioles 
pale ochraceous, becoming whitish, 1.5-2 mm. in diameter, Very 
numerous and crowded, flattened beneath; spores hyaline, elliptic, 
8-10 long, 4-6 » wide, smooth, some thick-walled. (/7. 16. f. 
10-15; pl. 18. f. 7-13 and 16.) 
Plants gregarious or single on twigs, old bagging, chips, ete; 
common and variable. : 
Exsic.: Ellis, N. A. Fungi, no. 728; Ravenel, Fungi Amer 
Exsic. no. 139. 
New York: Underwood, Clinton, Jelliffe; Maine: Harvey, 
Connecticut: Underwood, White; MassACHUSETTS: Underwood, 
Underwood & Seymour, 941 ; New Jersey : Ellis, White; PENNSYT 
VANIA: Haines, Everhart ; ALapama: Underwood, Earle ; VIRGINIA: 
Underwood ; Kentucky: Underwood ; INDIANA, Underwood ; Kan- 
Sas: Cragin, 490 ; OREGON: Carpenter ; MONTANA: Reynolds ; CoL- 
orano: Bethel, Underwood & Selby ; Wasuincton: Suksdorf. 
