British Gastromycetes. 5 5 
borough! Carlisle ! — N. America ; Jamacia; British Guiana; 
East Indies. 
Fasciculate. From J-f in. high, the margin at first in- 
curved, then after the disappearance of the epiphragm 
spreading and exposing the shining fluted inner surface 
of the peridium. Peridiola when moist more or less circular 
in outline and biconvex, with a marked depression or um- 
bilicus in the centre of one side, from which originates a long, 
thin, elastic thread or funiculus. When dry the peridiola 
are more or less trigonous in outline. 
Cyathus vernieosus, D. C. (Figs. 49-51). Campanulate, 
mouth broadly open, undulate, tapering downwards to a 
narrow base, inside smooth, even, lead-coloured or brownish, 
outside ochraceous or greyish, minutely silky, becoming 
smooth ; peridiola circular, biconvex, umbilicate, blackish, 
shining, from 3-4 mm. across ; spores broadly elliptical, 
colourless, 12-14x10 /x. 
Cyathus vernieosus , D. C., FI. Fr. ii, 270 ; Duby, Bot. 
Gall, ii, 865 ; Tul., Mon. Nid., Ann. Sci. Nat. sen 3, i, 
p. 81, pi. v, f. 14-23 ; Berk., Outl. 312, pi. 21, f. 1 ; Cooke, 
Hdbk. n. 1199; Sacc., Syll. vii, n. 110; Wint., Kr. FI. 
920. 
Cyathus laevis , Hoffm., Veg. Crypt, p. 31, t. 8, f. 2. 
Cyathus Olla, Pers., Syn. Fung. 237; Nees, Syst. 140, 
t- 13- f- 133 B. 
Cyathus campanulatus , Corda, Anl. t. D. f. 42 (19-23). 
Nidularia vernicosa , Bulk, Champ, i, p. 164, pi. 448, f. 1. 
ISidularia campamdata , Withering, Bot. Arr. iii, 445 ; 
Sow., t. 2 6 ; Fr., Syst. Myc. ii, 298. 
Peziza Oita, Batsch, Elench. Fung. 127. 
Peziza lentifera , Huds., FI. Angl. 633 ; Bolt., Fung. 
Halifax, iii, p. 102, t. 102, f. 1. 
Exs. — Kunze, Fung. Sel. 13 : Jack, Leiner u. Sitzenberger, 
Krypt. Badens, 332 ; Rav., Fung. Car. 3 ; Desm., Cr. Fr. ser. i, 
765; Rav., Fung. Amer. 473 ; Cke., Brit. Fung. 312 ; Sacc., 
Myc. Yen. 109 ; Crypt. Lusit. 37 ; Klotzsch, Myc. (Rab.) 247 ; 
