BULGARIE-E. 313 



with white nonseptate hairs near the base ; asci broadly 

 clavate ; sporidia elliptic, smooth, hyaline, 22 X 10/x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, filled with orange grannies. 



Ascobolus ciliatus — Berk., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 374* 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist./' No. 1083, t. 14, f. 7; Cooke, "Jour 

 Bot.," 1864; " Hanclbk," No. 2215; Schmidt, "Myco 

 Hefte," i. p. 90 (?); Fries, "Sys. Myco," ii. p. 164 (?) 

 Ascophanus ciliatus — Boud, " Ascob," p. 63. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," No. 658, ed. ii. No. 190; 

 Phil, " Elv. Brit," 97. 



On cow-dung. Autumn. 



Cups | to J a line broad. The pseudo parenchyma 

 consists of square or oblong cells as figured by B. and 

 Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," 1. 14, f. 7, and Boudier in "Ascob," 

 t. 12, f. xliv. 1. The hairs are without septa, colourless, 

 and ventricose near the base, or sometimes near the 

 middle. 



To my mind it is doubtful whether we have the 

 plant described by Schmidt, which Fries says is ciliated 

 on the margin. There are two forms of A. pilosus, one 

 with colourless hairs, the other with coloured hairs ; the 

 former appears to have been referred to A. ciliatus, the 

 latter to A. pilosus. 



Name — Cilium, the hair of the eyelash ; ciliated. 



Order IV.— BULGARIE.E. 



Receptacle sessile, rarely substipitate, more rarely 

 stipitate ; exipulum gelatinous, subgelatinous, or horny ; 

 sporidia elliptic or oblong, rarely filiform. (Plate X. 

 figs. 59-63.) 



The consistence of the receptacle in this order is a 

 marked feature, the nearest approach to which is found 

 in Ascobolea? ; but none of the species grow on dung, as is 

 commonly the case in that order. Vibrissea is placed 

 here with some misgiving, the receptacle being scarcely 

 gelatinous. 



Name — From the typical genus. 



