White : The Nidulariaceae of North America 259 



Cyathiis intermedins (Mont.) Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. i : 72. 

 //. 4.f. 4-7. 1844. 



Peridia cup-shaped, not rounded at the base, 7-9 mm. high, 

 6-8 mm. wide at the top, 1-2 mm. at the base, hghtish brown, 

 clothed with fine hairs which grow in clusters, the tips of several 

 of which join together in little outwardly curved tufts, thin and 

 showing the inner sulcate markings through in the older peridia; 

 inner surface brown, shiny, sulcate-striate ; the mouth straight, not 

 flaring, clothed with a circle of short stiff bristles ; the sporangi- 

 oles about 2 mm. in diameter, flattened, blackish, depressed be- 

 neath, somewhat angular with a short attachment ; spores hya- 

 line, 12-18/Z long, 6-9// wide, thick-walled. {PI. 14. f. 8-10; 

 pi. 18. f. 18) 



Growing in loose soil and on decaying wood. 



[Cuba : Ramon de la Sagra^ 



Delaware: Faulkland, Commons. 



This species was originally described from Cuba ; it differs 

 from CyatJiia hirsuta in the character of the tomentose outer cov- 

 ering of the peridium, and in the shorter and more rudimentary 

 attachment of the sporangioles to the inner peridial wall. 



4. Cyathia hirsuta (Schaeff.) 



Peziza lentifera ^ Linn. Sp. PI. 2 : 1180. 1753. 



Peziza sessilis campaimlata villosa Scop. Fl. Carn. 57. 1760. 



Peziza prima Schaefif. Fung. Bav. et Palat. Icon. 2 : //. iy8. 

 1763. 



Cyathushirsiitusintus striates Hall. Stirp. Helvet. 3:127. 1 768. 



Peziza cyathiformis Scop. /. />.* Fl. Carn. 2 : 486. 1772. 

 [Ed. 2.] 



Peziza hirsuta Schaefif. Fung. Bav. et Palat. 4 : 1 24. 1 774, 



Peziza striata Huds. Flor. Ang. 634. 1778. [Ed. 2.] 



Peziza hirsuta ')^?!Xsz\\, Elench. Fung. 127. 1783. 



Nidtilaria striata With. Boi. Arrang. 3 : 446. 1792 [Ed. 2] ; 

 Sibth. Fl, Ox. 393. 1794; Fries. Syst. Mycol. 3: 298. 1822; 

 Schwein. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4: 252. 1834. 



Cyathus striates Willd. Fl. Berol. 399. 1787; Hoffm. Veg. 

 Crypt, fasc. 2 : 33. //. 8. f. j. 1790; Pers. Syn. Meth. Fung. 237. 

 1801; Nees, Syst. 140. 1817; DC. Fl. Fr. 2: 269. 1805; Tul. 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. III. i : 6y. 1844. 



*As the first cited reference under the description of this species belongs to C. len- 

 tifera this name cannot be taken up for this species. 



