GG EL. ET €. TULASNE. — MONOGRAPHIE DES NIDULARIÉES, 
adulta carnoso-cornea, subtus umbilicata et funiculi compositi ope 
fungi parietibus infernis addicta, lege quadam coacervata : quo- 
rum integumento exteriore , éunica (peridiolo Nees , membranula 
floccosa Link, peridio partiali Fries), gossypino tenui vel subnullo , 
licet e strato seu fomite lanuginoso fibroso, pellicula cooperto, 
furfuresque pulveraceos sæpius velante, constante; cortice atro 
inseparabili tenui; materie interiore cornea duplici natura scil. 
intima (nucleo Fries ) obscura sporis immistisque filamentis crassis 
implexis composita , plerumque individua, circumjacenti ( peridio 
Nees) dilutiori vel albidæ sterili, kymeniferæ, insidente. Funiculus 
oculo armato superne sacciformis, vel elongatus et extremo utro- 
que angustato-coarctatus, vel longe ovatus, filamenta includens 
mucosa summopere replicita, deorsum intricata et arte in filum 
prælongum insimul abducenda, inferne in funem simplicem elas- 
ticum, basi dilatata brevi vel columnæformi fungi latera peten- 
tem, abeuns. Sporæ ovatæ vel ellipticæ, læves, in juniori peridiolo 
basidiis 2-4 insimul suffultæ, in adulto deciduæ, filamentis crassis 
corneis Immixtæ. 
Fungi inter Nidulariaceas majores, forma præstantissima struc- 
turaque multiplici gaudentes. 
Quos in duas dividimus sectiones, consulta præsertim peridi 
communis indole. 
Sectio I. CYATHUS (Rhabdocyathi). 
© Nidulariæ sp. e sect. Cyathia Fries. S. M. - Dub. Bot. Gall. 
Peridium extus plus minus lanuginoso-hirsutum , superneque 
striato-sulcatum , striis ex alterutro vel ex utroque latere conspicien- 
dis , corona plerumque perfecte determinaia. 
$ 1. Sporangiorum tunica tenui. 
A, Cyathus Novæ-Zeelandiæ + (PI 6, f. 1-5), 
C. elongatus angustus, medio subcoarctatus , brunneus obscurus, 
extus adpresse tomentosus lanuginosus, intus crebre striatus 
alte sulcatus ; margine vix distincto tomentoso, corona bre- 
