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NIDULARIACE^E 



Cyathus 



The British species grow in fields and gardens, generally on chips, 

 twigs and rotten wood ; some foreign species grow on dung of horse and 

 cow, and on bagging, matting, coffee-chaff, etc. Species 2090, 2091 



2090. C. striatus Hoffm. (from the striate inner surface of the 



peridium) a b c. 



Obconical, truncate at base and apex, striate and shining lead- 

 colour within, hirto-tomentose and ferruginous without. Peri. 

 subcircular, biconvex, lead-colour. Fun. whitish, containing 

 a long filiform appendage within. Springing from coarse 

 brown Myc. 



Fasciculate. Fields, woods, gardens, decaying twigs, wood, old willow, fir- 

 cones, coco-nut fibre. Feb.-Nov. f X f in. 



2091. C. vernieosus DC. (from the silky-shining outer surface of 



the peridium ; vernicosus, shiny as though varnished) a b c. 

 Campanulate, undulate, tapering downwards to a narrow base, 

 inside smooth, lead-colour or brownish, outside minutely silky, 

 ferruginous, ochreous or greyish. Peri, circular, biconvex, 

 blackish or blackish-brown. Fun. white. 



On the ground, stubble fields, gardens, flower-pots, flower-boxes, rotten 

 wood, chips. Feb.-Sept. \ x 



n. 



CXX. CRUCIBULUM Tul. 

 (From a fancied resemblance to a small melting-pot, crncibulum.} 



Peridium cup-shaped, consisting of two layers, the outer thick and 

 felt-like, the inner a thin membrane which is at first continuous over 



Fig. 136. A, Cnicibulmn vitlgarc Tul. X f . B, section showing youngand mature examples. 

 X 3-_ c, peridiolum ; p, section of ditto. X 12. E, basidia and spores. X 660. i, peridium; 

 2, epiphragm ; 3, peridiola ; 4, funiculus ; 5, hymenial layer lining peridiolum. 



