314 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE GENERA. 



I. Bulgaria. 

 II. Vibrissea. 



IV. mbrophila. 

 V. Calhria. 



III. Stamnaria. 



KEY TO THE GENERA 



Sporidia brown 

 Sporidia filiform, long 

 Sporidia not filiform, or, if so, short. . . 

 (Receptacle urceolate 



Bulgaria. 

 Vibrissea. 

 1 



Stamnaria. 



[Receptacle moderately large, exceeding 1 line 

 1. \ broad ; sporidia large . . . . . . . . Ombrophila. 



I Receptacle minute, rarely reaching 1 line broad ; 



i, sporidia very minute . . . . . . . . Calloria. 



GEXUS I. BULGARIA. Fries. 



Receptacle substipitate or sessile, glabrous ; mature 

 cups plane or slightly convex ; excipulum gelatinous or 

 fleshy gelatinous ; asci narrowly clavate ; sporidia brown 

 (Plate X. fig. 59.) 



Inhabiting wood. 



The dark-coloured hymenium and brown sporidia 

 distinguish this from the other genera. 



Name From bulga, a leathern bag. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Receptacle turbiuate . . . . . . . . . . inqninans. 



Receptacle sessile . . . . . . . . . . pulla. 



1. Bulgaria inquinans. Fries. 



Cteespitose, turbinate, firm, ge^tinous; externally 

 rugulose, furfuraceous, umber ; hymenium becoming 

 plane, black ; asci narrowly clavate ; sporidia 8 or 4, 

 elliptic, unequal-sided, brown, 10 14 x 5 6ju; para- 

 physes filiform, slender. (Plate X. fig. 59.) 



Peziza inquinans Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 631 ; and 

 " Myco. Eur.," p. 318. Peziza nigra Bull., " Champ.," 

 p. 238, t. 460, f. 1. Peziza polyniorpha With., vol. 4, 

 p. 312; Sow., t. 428; Purt., "Mid. Flo.," vols. 2. and 3, 

 No. 1046; Lightf., f. ii. p. 1003; "Flo. Dan.," t. 464; 

 Hoffm., " Crypt.," ii. t. 6, f. 2. Peziza brunnea Batsch, 

 " EL," f. 50. Bulgaria inquinans Fries, " Sys. Myco.," 

 ii. p. 167; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 209; Berk., " Outl.," 375, 



