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NIDULARIINEAE. 



Peridium campanulate, cylindrical, or cup-shaped, consisting of 

 one to three layers, inclosing several peridiola, and sometimes covered 

 at the apex by a membranaceous epiphragm. Peridiola lenticular, 

 attached, or not, to the peridium by a funiculus, consisting of two 

 layers and lined on the inside with the basidia and paraphyses. 

 Basidia bearing 2-4 stipitate, or sessile spores. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, oval, or subglobose, smooth. Growing on dead wood and twigs, 

 more rarely on the ground. 



NlDULARIACEAE. 



Same characters as the suborder. 



Nidularia (Fr.) Tul. 

 (Nidulus, a little nest.) 



Peridium subglobose, sessile, consisting of a single layer, without an 

 epiphragm, dehiscing irregularly, or in a circumscissile manner, by 

 the rupture of the upper portion. Peridiola lenticular, biconvex, or 

 compressed, numerous, without a funiculus at maturity, and involved 

 in mucus. Spores white, elliptical, or subglobose, smooth. Growing 

 on the ground, wood, or leaves. 



68. N. pisiformis (Roth) Tul. Massee, Mon. Brit. Gastromyc. t. 37. 



Pisum, pea,; forma, shape. 



Pe. 4-10 mm., whitish, then cinnamon, or brownish, subglobose, 

 seated on a broad base, sessile, minutely tomentose, dehiscing in a 

 circumscissile manner. Peridiola brown, 2 mm, across, subrotund, 

 biconvex, shining. Spores white, broadly elliptical, or subglobose, 

 7-8 x 6-7 IJL. Cystidia "large, fusiform" Massee. Gregarious, or 

 solitary. Dead branches. May Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. Broomei Massee. C. E. Broome, the eminent mycologist. 



Differs from the type in the narrowly elliptical spores, with a thick 

 hyaline epispore. Pine wood. Rare. 



69. N. Berkeleyii Massee. (= Nidularia pisiformis (Roth) Tul. sec. 



Lloyd.) Massee, Mon. Brit. Gastromyc. t. 38. 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, the father of British mycology. 

 Pe. 5-7 mm. broad and high, bright cinnamon, subglobose, be- 

 coming broadly open, thick, felt-like, hirto-tomentose ; bright cinna- 

 mon inside, velvety. Peridiola bright brown, about 2 mm. in diam., 

 numerous (40-50), circular, biconvex, smooth, shining, much wrinkled 

 when dry, firmly agglutinated together by mucus. Spores colourless, 

 then becoming pale brownish olive, elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6 /x. Solitary, 

 or two or three together. On wood, twigs, etc. Sept. Rare. 



