Stemonitis.'] 
VIII. FUNGI. 
621 
simple, evanescent, with the stipes passing through it.. Nucleus (capillitium) 
reticulate, springing from the stem. 
A considerable tropical and temperate genus. 
1. S. ferrugmea, Fhrb. ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 192. Fascicled. Hypo- 
thallus persistent. Peridia fugacious ; capillitium cylindric. Sporidia rusty- 
purple, large. 
Northern Island: on dead wood, Colenso. (Europe.) 
2. S. typhoides, DC. ;—Fl. N. Z. ii. 192. Gregarious, minute. Hypo- 
tliallus evanescent. Stipes black. Peridium cylindric. Spores brown, small. 
Northern Island; Hawke’s Bay, on a decayed Polyporus, Colenso. (Europe, etc.) 
36. CYATHUS, Persoon. 
Small Fungi, like diminutive birds’-nests. Peridium of three closely con- 
nected membranes, at length bursting at the apex, and the orifice closed by 
a white membrane. Sporangia plane, umbilicate, attached to the peridium by 
elastic cords. 
A curious genus, from the resemblance of the species to birds’-nests with eggs ; found in 
all parts of the world. 
1. C. novaj-SSelandise, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 192. Narrow, elongate, 
obconical, about •§- in. high. Peridium tomentose externally, grooved and 
striate internally ; margin indistinct, tomentose, not produced into a ; corona. 
Sporangia thick, black, glabrous, smooth. 
Middle Island : Banks’s Peninsula, on dead wood, Raoul. 
2. C. Colensoi, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 192. Densely crowded, cup- 
shaped, j in. high, thin, flexible, dirty umber-coloured, pubescent externally, 
within even, brownish. Sporangia irregular, brown, thick-walled. Spores 
very minute, ovoid. 
Northern Island : on the ground, Colenso. 
87. CRUCIBULUM, Tulasne. 
Habit of Cyathus. Peridium at first globose, at length cupped and ob- 
conic, of a uniform, spongy, fibrous, felted consistence. Orifice closed by a 
flat furfuraceous cover of the same colour. Sporangia plane, attached by a 
long cord to a nipple-like tubercle. 
A genus of two species, one widely distributed. 
1. C. vulgar e, Tulasne ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 193. Peridium dirty 
yellow, finally white. Spores minute, ovate. — Berk. Outlines. 312. t. 2. f. 1. 
Northern and Middle Islands: common on twigs, etc. (Universally distributed.) 
2. C. emodense, Berk, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 204 P — FI. N. 
Z. ii. 193 {Crucibulum). White, bell-shaped, narrowed below, subsessile, 
broadly open above, not striate, externally fasciculately tomentose ; margin 
stellate, ciliate. Sporangia short, umber. 
Middle Island : Nelson, on wood, Munro. — A very fine species, doubtfully identified 
with the Himalayan one by Mr. Berkeley. 
