CRATERIUM 77 



Batsch simply described Micheli's figure ! Now there is nothing 

 in Micheli's figure (PI. 86, Fig. 14) to enable one to say with 

 certainty which Craterium Micheli had in mind, if Craterium at 

 all. Nor does Batsch help the matter when he offers the de- 

 scription following : " Stipitate ; acute conica, patens ; stipite 

 subdistincto, lineari, brevi, valido. Albicans. In foliis hederae 

 putridis." (Elenchus Fungorum, Batsch, 1783, p. 121.) There is 

 nothing definitive here but the one word " albicans " quoted from 

 Micheli. But this term is applicable the rather to C. mimttum, 

 the cups of which whiten with weathering. It may be, as in- 

 sisted by Fries (Syst. Myc., III., p. 149), that Micheli drew Cra- 

 teriums ; but if so, we cannot determine which species. 



The specific name here adopted was applied by Persoon 

 probably to this form, but Persoon likewise failed to distinguish 

 the present species from C. minutum (see Syn. Fung:, pp. 183, 

 184), and Fries, op. cit., p. 153. Ditmar, I.e., leaves no doubt 

 as to what he figures and describes, and accordingly the name 

 he first correctly uses is here adopted. 



Not common. New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North 

 Carolina, Iowa. 



5. CRATERIUM MINIMUM Berkeley and Curtis. 



PLATE XVI., Fig. 6. 



1873. Craterium minimum Berk, and Curt., Grev., II., p. 67. 



1892. Craterinm cylindricum Massee, Man., p. 268. 



1894. Craterium leucocephalum Ditm., Lister, Myc., p. 72, (in part). 



Sporangia closely gregarious, very small, slender cylindric, 

 almost entirely white, stipitate, the peridium delicate, transpar- 

 ent although calcareous nearly to the base, opening by a dehis- 

 cence regularly circumscissile ; stipe short, about one-third the 

 total height, clear orange brown, somewhat furrowed, rising 

 from an indistinct hypothallus ; capillitium very lax, physaroid, 

 the calcareous nodules large, rounded, pure white, aggregated 

 at the centre of the cup ; spore-mass black, spores minutely 

 roughened, violaceous brown, 8-9 /A. 



