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a plant which was, without doubt, Cyathia Icntifera. Loeselius,* 

 and Marsilius,t made passing references to this same species, and 

 in 1729 MicheH I described and figured two species, citing one 

 from the above-mentioned writers, and the second from Ray,§ 

 Dillenius |1 and Vaillant, 1 the latter species being unquestionably 

 Cyathia striata. . Linnaeus,** in 1753, gives under his section 

 "Acaules" of the genus Peziza — Peziza campamdata lenfifera, 

 first referring to Hortus Cliffortianus (1737) where we find that 

 the only species of Peziza which he gives, and to which he refers 

 what is evidently a Cyathia is not a Peziza in the modern sense, 

 but the first known type of Cyathia; and the only proof that he 

 knew what, a Peziza really was, is his reference to Dillenius' tt 

 work published in 1719, in which a true Peziza is figured. Dil- 

 lenius divided \X\q Pezizae into two sections: {i) Membranacei et 

 tenuiores — the true Pezizae, and (2) Dunores calyciformes, seinini- 

 feri pHtati, under which head he gives Peziza calyciformis lentifera 

 laevis (our Cyathia lentifera) and Peziza calyciformis lentifera hir- 

 sutd' (our Cyathia hirsuta). 



The genus Cyathus was founded in 1768 by Haller, twelve 

 years after Cyathia P. Br., and since that time many species have 

 been described from nearly all parts of the world. Fischer || 

 states that there are forty-two known species. 



From our own country not many species have been described, 

 Schweinitz was the first to mention these plants ; in 1 818 he named 

 ten species, but not all of them are to be referred to the genus 



Cyathia. In 1869 Berkeley & Curtis§§ described Cyatlms pallidus 

 from Cuba, also reporting Cyathus intermedins, Cyathus Montagnei, 



Cyathus limbatus, Cyathus Poeppigii, Cyathus inicrosporus, and 



Cyathus Lesueurii collected by Wright from the same island. 



Berkeley, II II in 1873, described from Connecticut, Cyathus Wrightii, 



*Flor. Prus. 98. 1703. 



t Dissert. Gen. Fung. 17. //. a. 1714. 



jNov. Plant. Gen. 222.pl. 102. f. i, 2. 1729. 



§Syn. 3: 21. 1704. 



||Giss. 196. 1719. 



•jBot. Paris. 57. //. //. / 4, J. , 1727- 



**Sp. PI. 2: 1 180. 1753. 



tt/. ^. 



Jt Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. i^** : 328. 1899. 



g§ Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 346. 1869. 



II II Grevillea, 2 : 34. 1873. 



