SYNONYMS. Tulasne, who straightened out the subject, gives the 

 following synonyms : Cyathus crucibuliformis, Nidularia Crucibulum, Nid- 

 ularia leucosperma, Cyathus ericetorum, Cyathus cylindricus, Nidularia levis, 

 Cyathus Crucibulum. Peziza crucibuliformis, Peziza lentifera, Peziza Pyxis, 

 Peziza levis. 



These were mostly based on the vagaries of the old botanists who seemed to 

 think every time they considered the plant they had to give it a new name. 

 In addition (see Note 15, page 13), Nidularia juglandicola, Crucibulum 

 j uglandicolum, Crucibulum simile, Cyathus fimetarius, Cyathus fimicola, Cy- 

 athus pezizoides and Cyathus pusio are all synonyms. The latter three from 

 Australia are all the same plant, small specimens of Crucibulum vulgare. And 

 then, as if this poor, little plant did not have enough burdens to bear in the 

 way of useless names, Miss White recently added another to the load, Cruci- 

 bulum crucibuliforme, pure name-jugglery. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR CQLLECTION. 



Canada, J. Macoun. 



Minnesota, Dr. Mary S. Whetstone, Dr. J. E. Crewe; Wisconsin, Chas. 

 E. Brown; New Hampshire, C. E. Montgomery; Massachusetts, G. E. Morris, 

 Clara E. Cummings, R. B. Mackintosh ; Pennsylvania, Dr. Wm. Herbst, Charles 

 Mcllvaine, Mrs. Dallas; Washington, D. C., A. Hrdlicha; Illinois, H. C. Beards- 

 lee; Ohio, Walter H. Aiken, Thomas Bell, C. G. Lloyd; Kentucky, C. G. Lloyd; 

 Maryland, W. T. Lakin ; Georgia, H. N. Starnes ; North Carolina, Miss Mary 

 Fitzgerald; Missouri, P. Spaulding; Colorado, Ernest Knaebel ; California, 

 Edw. P. Ely. 



Ireland, Greenwood Pirn ; Scotland, Mary L. Miles ; England, C. Crossland, 

 Mrs. A. Montague, E. W. Swanton. 



France, N. Patouillard, G. Renaudet, Capt. Pyat Felix, L. Rolland, Rev. H. 

 Bourdot. Dr. X. Gillot. 



Spain, T. de Aranzadi. 



Belgium, Madame Rousseau. 



Germany, Otto Jaap. Wm. Kriiger, C. Engelke, Prof. Plottner, Dr. O. 

 Pazschke, Madame Schultze Wege. 



Bohemia, F. Bubak, A. Weidmann. 



Sivitzerland, Denis Cruchet. 



Denmark, J. Lind, Rev. A. Breitung. 



Sweden, L. Romell, L. Neger, C. G. Lloyd. 



Russia, A. Jaczewski. 



Australia, Melbourne, F. Reader. 



(NoTE. There are at Kew several collections of this species from Aus- 

 tralia.) 



THE GENUS CYATHUS. 



Peridium cup-shaped, composed of three distinct layers. When 

 young the mouth is covered with a thin, white, smooth epiphragm. 18 

 Peridioles, usually rilling only about one-half the cup, always black, 

 attached to the cup by funiculi. Tunica usually very thin, on some 

 species none, white, but so thin it hardly masks the black color of 

 the peridiole wall. Spores hyaline, varying much in size (from 6 to 40 

 mic.) in the different species, imbedded in irregular, angular, hyaline 



18 The epiphragm of Cyathus, in some species at least, when very young is covered with lo 

 hau-s, which early fall away leaving the usual epiphragm a very thin, white membrane stretch 

 tensely over the mouth of the cup like the head of a drum. 



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