410 



NIDULAKIACEI. 



neath thicker and cottony, covered with a whitish meal ; spores 

 thick, oblong-elliptic. — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1844, i.^. 67, t. 3, t. 

 4,/. 1-3, t. 8,/. 1-12. Hoffm. Cr. t. 8, /. 3. Nees.f. 132. Corda. 

 Anl. t. D.f. 4z2. JSTidularia striata. Holm. ii. t. 2. Sow. t. 29. Fr. 

 S.M.u. p. 298. Bull.t.40,f.A.t.2,f.3. Peziza striata. Bolt. 

 t.l02,f.2. Scha^ff.t. 178. Gled.t.4.. Vaill. 1. 11, f. 4.-6. Mich. 

 1. 102, f. 2. Bocc. t. 301,/ 1. Berk. Outl. t. 2,f. 3. Berk. exs. no. 

 259. Cooke, exs. no. 311. Fckl. exs. no. 1247. 



On sticks, fir cones, &c. 



[United States.] 



1199. 



Cyathus vernicosus B. C. " Waxy Cyathus." 



Campanulate, base narrowly subsessile, above broadly open, 

 undulato-rei:)and, externally pale ochre or cinereous, silky tomen- 

 tose, at length nearly smooth, internally lead-coloured or brown, 

 corona inconspicuous ; sporangia pale blackish, even ; tunic 

 rather thick, continuous, with a scanty, cinereous meal ; funicu- 

 lum white.— Tw/. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1844, i. p. 81, t. 5, / 14-23. 

 Corda. Anl. t. D. f. 42. Link. Obs. t. 2, f. 53. Berk. Outl. t. 21, 

 /. i. Berk. exs. no. 258. Cooke exs. no. S12. Fckl. exs. no. 124:6. 

 Nees.f. 183, B. Nidularia campanulata. Sow. t. 26. Holms, ii. t. 

 3. Paul. 1. 187, f. 7-12. Bull. t. 488,/. 1. Hoffm. Cr. t. 8,/ 2. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 780,/ 1, t. 469, upper Jig. Peziza lentifera. Bolt. t. 102, / 

 1. Gleclt.4:. 3Iich.t. 102, f.l. Vaill. 1. 11, f. 6-7. Bocc. t. 301, 

 f.l. Batt.t.3,f.I.K.L.M. 



On the ground, especially stubble fields. Common. 



[United States.] 



{Fig. 142.) 



Gen. 97. 



CRUCXBULUM, Tul. 



Peridium con- 

 sisting of a uni- 

 form, spongy, fib- 

 rous felt, closed 

 by a flat furfura- 

 ceous cover of the 

 same colour. Spo- 

 rangia plane, at- 

 tached by a long cord, springing from a little nipple-like tubercle. 

 —Berk. Outl. p. 312. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1844, i.p. 89. 



(Fic^. 143.) 



Fig. 143. 



