matrix with a pad of pale-colored mycelium. Externally even, pale, and 

 clothed with somewhat matted hairs. Even within. Peridioles 2 mm., 

 with thin tunica. Cortex single. Spores sub globose, 15 x 16 mic. Some 

 more elliptical. 



This plant resembles the small form of Cyathus pallidus so closely 

 it can hardly be distinguished by the cups, save the hairs are not so 

 rigid and hispid. It has much larger, more globose spores. In the 

 first peridioles I examined I found all the spores subglobose, but in 

 examinations since, from same cups, I have found other spores de- 

 cidedly elliptical. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 

 Jamaica, W. Jekyll. 



SECTION 5. 



CYATHUS VERNICOSUS (Plate no). Cups broad, campan- 

 ulate, 10-15 x8-io, often flaring at the mouth, thick, rigid. Externally 

 even, smooth, gray fawn color, with fine appressed hairs. Within 

 smooth, even. Peridioles large, 2^-3^/2 mm., with a thin, uniform, 

 closely adnate tunica. Cortex thin, a single layer. Spores ovate, 6-8 x 

 10-14. 



In Europe this is the most common species. In the United States 

 it is frequent, but not so common as stercoreus. It occurs also in Aus- 

 tralia, South Africa, South America, and doubtless many other coun- 

 tries. It generally grows on the ground, sometimes on chips, etc., 

 but it is the only species likely to be found in temperate regions in un- 

 manured ground. It is easily recognized by its smooth, even, rigid 

 cups and large peridioles. 



SYNONYMS. The old botanists illustrated the plant many times, each 

 usually giving it a new name. Tulasne has collected these together, and cites the 

 following synonyms. Peziza tertia, Peziza lentifera, Peziza cyathiformis, Peziza 

 sericea, Peziza olla, Cyathus laevis, Nidularia vernicosa, Nidularia campanulata, 

 Cyathus olla, Nidularia plumbea, Nidularia olla, Cyathus campanulatus. These 

 references in extenso were copied in a recent monograph, but I do not think they 

 are worth rehearsing in detail. They should have died and been forgotten after Tu- 

 lasne had pointed them out. Since Tulasne's monograph, mycologists have mostly 

 quit discovering that it was a new species, and have generally taken Tulasne's 

 name, Cyathus vernicosus. Every now and then some one gets out his little date 

 dictionary and calls the plant Cyathus olla, Cyathus campanulatus or Cyathus 

 laevis, according to the degree of a priorist he happens to be. Having passed 

 the "new species" era, the plant is just entering the name-juggling era. The 

 latest in that line is Cyathia lentifera. Miss White states that Schweinitz's 

 species Nidularia fascicularis (Cyathus fascicularis) is a synonym. I have seen 

 only a very poor specimen, but the peridioles have the same structure and 

 spores as C. vernicosus, and I do not question the correctness of it. Cyathus 

 similis was said by the author to be very close. It seems so to me, so close 1 

 can note no difference. 



