350 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Nidularia. 
NIDULA‘RIA. Fungus leather-like, bell-shaped, 
- sitting: capsules large, flat, fixed by pedicles 
at the bottom of the bell. 
Oss. Whilst the plant is young it contains a clear gelati- 
nous fluid, and its orifice is closed with a thin membrane, which 
tearing as’ the growth advances, the fluid evaporates, and the 
seeds, or rather capsules, then become visible. 
campanula’- Nip. Bell-shaped; border expanding ; smooth, shining 
ta, and grey within: capsules smooth. 
Peziza (lentifera ) campanulata lentifera. Lrxv. 
Bull. 488-Bolt. 102. 1-Sowerby 28-Scheff. 180-Vaill. 
11. 6 and 7—Mich. 102, cyathoides \-Gled. 4, Pex. f. 
3 and 5—Pluk. 184. 9—Pet. 107. 9—Battar. 3. I. K. L. 
M.—FI. dan. 469. 1—Hoffm. cryp. ii. 8.2.00 
Stemless ; inversely conical, from # to 3 of an inch high, 
and nearly as much in diameter at the top. Brown on the out- 
side; dark prey and smooth within; the border flanching out. 
Substance leathery. Capsules fixed by threads to the inside of 
the bell. Consists of a grey membranaceous bell-shaped cup, 
rather downy on the outside; its edge entire and reflected. 
Within it are contained several compressed circular bodies, filled 
with a gelatinous matter and connected with the cup, each by 
a fine thread inserted into its flat side. ‘When these threads are 
fixed near the edge of the cup, the cases or capsules supported 
by them are found suspended on its outside. Mr. Goven. 
Woods, garden walks and te EG about Bungay. 
Mr. Woopwarp.—Coplar Hill, Herefordshire, plentiful. Mr. 
SracxHousz. In the garden of the work-house at Erdington, 
near Birmingham.] oe 
stria’ta. © Nip. Conical, woolly on the outside, scored within ; cap- 
sules woolly underneath. ; 
Sowerby 20-Bull, 40. A.—Balt. 102, 2-Scheff. \78—Fl. dats 
780. 1—Mich. 102, Cyathoides, 2-Gled. 4. Peziza ful 
aud 2-Vaill. 11. 4 and 5—Hoffm. cryp. ii. 8.3. 
_. Very woolly on the outside, beautifully striated within. 
Full 2 inch high, regularly conical, brown, — 
_ P.lentifera. 8. Linn. Woods, fields, and rotten wood. 
Earsham Wood near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Woopwagp.] 
de’vis, Nib Cébitcal but distended : di | Mow = amovth : .cap- 
