CRUCIBULUM NIDULARIA. 25 



Crucibulum vulgare. Tul. (fig. 5, p. 20, and fig. 8, 

 p. 28.) 



Peridium thick, greyish-buff, smooth and shining inside, 

 minutely tornentose outside ; peridiola circular, biconvex, 

 pale, 1-5-2 ra.m. across; spores elliptic-oblong, smooth, 

 colourless, 10 x 5-6 //,. 



Crucibulum vulgare, Berk., Outl., p. 312, pi. 2, f. 1 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., n. 1200 ; Mass., Mon. Gast., p. 56, f. 52. 



On wood, twigs, &c. Becoming bell-shaped and broadly 

 open, about ^ in. across. Gregarious or crowded. 



NIDULARIA. Tul. (fig. 6, p. 28.) 



Peridium consisting of a single membrane ; peridiola 

 numerous, not attached by a fuuiculus to the peridium, 

 involved in mucus. 



Nidularia, Tul., Mon. Nid., Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 3, vol. i. 

 p. 100 ; Mass., Mon. Gast., p. 57. 



Readily distinguished amongst its allies by the free 

 peridiola. 



Nidularia pisiformis. Tul. (fig. 6, p. 28.) 

 Sessile, not rooting, dirty buff, more or less hairy, tuber- 

 culose above, splitting irregularly ; peridiola subrotund, 

 biconvex, brown, smooth, shining ; spores colourless, typi- 

 cally broadly obovate, sometimes subglobose or elliptical, 

 7-8 x 8-9 fM. 



Nidularia pisiformis, Cke., Hdbk., n. 1201 ; Mass., Mou. 

 Gasr., p. 58, f. 37. 



On the ground, wood, leaves, &c. Sessile, springing from 

 a broad base, more or less flattened above, about in. across. 

 Peridiola wrinkled when dry. Solitary or gregarious. 



Nidularia Berkeley!. Mass. 



Subglobose, becoming broadly open, peridium thick, exter- 

 nally cinnamon, hairy, inside velvety, cinnamon ; peridiola 

 numerous (40-50), circular in outline, biconvex, brown, 

 shining, about 2 mm. across ; spores elliptical, smooth, 

 becoming pale brownish-olive, 9-10 x 5-6 p.. 



Nidularia Berkeleyi, Mass., Mon. Gast., p. 59, f. 38. 



On wood and twigs. Peridium about ] in. broad and 

 high, without a trace of cord-like rooting mycelium. Solitary 



