CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Nidularia. 313 
(Caoutchouc Peziza. P. polymorpha. Sowerby. Lightf. Purt. P. nigra. 
Bull. P. brunnea. Batsch. P. turbinata. Relh. P. infundibulum. Hoffm. 
P. inquinans. Pers. Hook. Tremella turbinata. Huds. 563. Elvela 
pulla. SchaefF. E.) On the trunks and branches of fallen oaks. On 
the decayed branches of an oak, in Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse.—(On the 
stump of an oak. Hollo way-head-lane, near Birmingham. On a fallen 
oak tree at the Larches. E.) Sept.—April. 
P. a'tra. Concave, black. Huds. 637. 
On cow-dung. Huds. On decayed wood. Bolt. Aug.—May, 
INfIDULA'RIA.* * Fungus leather-like, bell-shaped, sessile : 
capsules large, flat, attached by pedicles 
to the bottom of the bell.f 
Ohs. Whilst the plant is young it contains a clear gelatinous fluid, and its 
orifice is closed with a thin membrane, which tearing as the growth 
advances, the fluid evaporates, and the seeds, or rather capsules, then 
become visible. 
Nid. campanula'ta. Bell-shaped; border expanding; smooth, shining 
and grey within : capsules smooth. 
Peziza {lentif era) companulata lentifera. Linn. 
Bull. 488— Bolt. 102. 1— Sowerby 28— {Purt. 17. 3. E.)— Schceff. 180— 
Vaill. 11. 6. and 7— Mich. 102, cyathoides 1— Gled. 4, Pez. f. 3 and 5 ■— 
Pink. 184. 9— Pet. 107. 9—Batiar. 3. I. K. L. M.—Fl. Ban. 469. 1— 
Hoffm. Crypt, ii. 8. 2. 
Stemless ; inversely conical, from half to three-fourths of an inch high, and 
nearly as much in diameter at the top. Brown on the outside; dark grey 
and smooth within; the border flanching out. Substance leathery. Cap¬ 
sules fixed by threads to the inside of the bell. Consists of a grey mem¬ 
branaceous bell-shaped cup, rather downy on the outside; its edge entire 
and reflected. Within it are contained several compressed circular bodies, 
filled with a gelatinous matter and connected with the cup, each by a fine 
thread inserted into its flat side. When these threads are fixed near the 
edge of the cup, the cases or capsules supported by them are found sus¬ 
pended on its outside. Mr. Gough. 
(Bell-shaped Nidularia. JV. vernicosa. Bull. JV. campanulata. Sow¬ 
erby. Relh. Purt. JV. sericea. SchsefF. Peziza lentifera. Linn. Lightf. 
Huds. Cyathus olla. Pers. Hook. Woods, garden-walks, and Fields. 
Frequent about Bungay. Mr. Woodward. Coplar Hill, Herefordshire, 
plentiful. Mr. Stackhouse. (In the garden of the workhouse at Erding- 
ton, near Birmingham. E.) 
Nid. stria'ta. Conical, woolly on the outside, scored within: cap¬ 
sules woolly underneath. 
* (.From nidus , a nest; this fungus resembling a bird’s nest with eggs in it. E.) 
*f* (Other botanists have described a similar genus by the names of Cyathus and Cra- 
terium; neither of which are more characteristic than the one adopted by our author. 
E.) 
