which was adventitious in the Botanical Garden at Bruxelles, on some earth 

 from Mexico. In the former plant the development of mycelium, I judge from 

 the picture, was not out of the ordinary, but in the latter plant the mycelium 

 forms a large ball about twice the diameter of the little, subglobose cup that 

 is seated upon it. Neither is accompanied by any spore or other characters- 

 from which any idea can be obtained of the relationship of th e plants. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 



Canada, T. N. Willing. 



Vermont, E. A. Burt; Nezv Hampshire. C. E. Montgomery; Connecticut \ 

 E. P. Ely, C. E. Preston; Minnesota, Dr. M. E. Whetstone; Massachusetts^ 

 Clara, E. Cummings; New York, W. N. Clute; Pennsylvania, C. H. Baker; 

 New Jersey, H. A. Bird, F. K. Vreeland ; Washington, D. C.. Flora L. Pat- 

 terson, F. J. Braendle; Ohio, A. P. Morgan, Mrs. A. J. Wolfert, Frank Hunts- 

 man. W. C. Dawson, C. G. Lloyd; Kentucky, C. G. Lloyd; South Dakota, L. 

 W. Carter ; North Dakota. J. F. Brenckle ; Nebraska, Rev. J. M. Bates ; Kansas , 

 E. Bartholomew (type of Cyathus rufipes) ; North Carolina. Miss Mary Fitz- 

 gerald ; Florida, Mrs. M. A". Noble, Theo. L. Mead Mrs. Sams, C. E. Pleas- 

 (Cyathus rufipes, see Plate XXX); Texas, W. H.' Long, Jr., J. W. Stiles; 

 California. S. B. Parish. 



Italy, M. Bezzi. Dr. C. Massalongo. 



France, Capt. Pyat Felix. 



Japan, T. Ichimura, Toji Nishida, J. Yoshinaga (2 collections), K. Miyabe 

 (2 collections), S. Kusano (3 collections). 



South America, Argentine. Theo. Stuckert. 



Jamaica, W. Jekyll (3 collections). 



Antigua. A. Thibou. 



Madagascar, Ex. Herb, N. Patouillard (type of Cyathus affinis). 



Africa, Zambesi Falls, from Professor Massee. 



Australia (While I have received no specimens, there are a number at Kew). 



British India, G. A. Gammie. 



SECTION 4. 



This section only occurs in the tropics. The plants are very much alike as tx> 

 cups, having pale-colored cups with spreading, hispid hairs. The difference 

 is chiefly in the spores, and while this difference is very marked in the few 

 collections we have, it will probably prove that when abundant material is re- 

 ceived the spore sizes and shapes run into each other, so that it is not practi- 

 cable to maintain "species" on spore characters alone. At the same time we 

 would not feel justified in throwing them together from the collections that 

 we have. 



CYATHUS PALLIDUS (Plate 109) . Peridium pale- colored, cam- 

 panulate, 6-7 mm. high, 5-6 mm. broad at mouth, blotched with spread- 

 ing hairs at first dense, but at length becoming thinner and scattered. 

 Cups even within and without. 35 Peridioles about 2 mm. in diameter 

 with very thin tunica and thin, single walls. Spores small, elliptical, 

 largest about 7 x 10 mic., smallest about 5x8 mic. 36 



Originally described from Cuba (Wright, 684), we have the plant 

 also from Jamaica and Antigua. Miss Barrett's specimens (Plate 109,. 

 figs. 3 and 4) from Jamaica, have notably smaller, more urn-shaped 



88 The specimens I have from Jamaica are perfectly even within. The type specimens appear 

 very slightly striate, but the plant belongs in the section " Olla," not in Eucyathus as found in Sac- 

 card o. 



36The spores are described as "subglobose, 10 mic." but my examination of the type which 

 agrees with Miss White's measurements of the co-types shows them rather elliptical. 



