NIDULAEIACEI. 



409 



1197. 



Phelonitis strobilina. P. '* Fir cone Phelonitij 



Aggregate, peridia rounded, red-brown, more or less circnm- 

 scissile ; spores dirty yellow, becoming pale. — PerichcBna strobi- 

 lina. Fr. S.M. iii. p. 190. Eng. Fl. v. ^.321. A. ^ S. t. 6, f. 5. 

 Sturm, iii. t. 20. Nees. f. 101. Chev. t. 9, /. 22. Grev. t. 275. 

 Moug. exs. no. 579. Corda. Ic. v./. 30. Berk. exs. no. 292. FcJcl. 

 exs. no. 1469. 



Between the scales of old cones of Finns Abies. Appin. 



(Fig. 141.; 



Order XI. NIDULARIACEI. Tiil. 



Spores produced on sporopbores compacted into one or more 

 globose or disciform bodies, contained within a distinct peridinm. 

 ^Berk. Out!, p. 311. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1^4:^,1. p. Qi. 



Peridium cup-shaped, sporangia attached by a cord. 



Of three membranes 



Uniform, spongy 



Peridium globose, simple. Sporangia involved in mncus 

 Peridium sub-bemispherical. 



Double; sporangium single, ejected . . , 



Single ; sporangium papillseform . . y 



Hyaline; sporaugia large, grumous 



Cyathus. 



Crucihulum. 



Nidularia. 



Sphceroboliis. 



Thelehohxs. 



Poli/angium. 



Gtn. 96. 



Fig. 142. 



1198. 



CYATHUS, Pers. 



Peridium composed of three closely connected 

 membranes, at length bursting at the apex, and 

 closed by a white membrane. Sporangia plane, 

 umbilicate, attached to the walls by an elastic 

 cord. — Berk. Outl. p. 312. Tul. Ann. So. Nat. 

 1844,1.65. (Fig. 142.) 



Cyathus stxiatus. Moffm. '' Striate Cyathus.' 



Obconic, truncate, broadly open, externally ferruginous, hirto- 

 tomentose, internally lead-colour, smooth, striate ; margin and 

 corona thick, continuous ; sporangia somewhat trigonous, whit- 

 ish, broadly umbilicate ; tunic above very thin, evanescent, be- 



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