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NIDULARIACEiE 



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, corTee-chaff, etc. Species 2090, 2091 



2090. C. striatus HofTm. (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. 



in. 



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



the peridium ; vernieosus, shiny as though varnished) a b e. 



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 \ in. 



CXX. CRUCIBULUM Tul. 

 (From a fancied resemblance to a small melting-pot, crucibulum.) 



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, Crucibulwji vulgare Tul. X f. B, section showing young and mature examples. 

 X 3. c, peridiolum ; d, section of ditto. X 12. e, basidia and spores. X 660. 1, peridium; 

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



