314 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Arrangement of the Genera. 



I. Bulgaria. 



II. Vibrissea. 



III. Stamnaria. 



IV. Ombrophila. 

 V. Calloria. 



Key to the Genera. 



Sporidia brown .. .. .. .. .. Bulgaria. 



Sporidia filiform, long Vibrissea. 



Sporidia not filiform, or, if so, short. . . . 1 



("Receptacle urceolate . . . . . . . . . . Stamnaria. 



(Receptacle moderately large, exceeding 1 line 



1. ^ broad ; sporidia large . . . . . . . . Ombrophila. 



I Receptacle minute, rarely reaching 1 line broad; 



{ sporidia very minute . . . . . . . . Calloria. 



Genus 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 turbinate . . . . . . . . . . inquinans. 



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



1. Bulgaria inquinans. Fries. 



Casspitose, 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 — 6/z; 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 polymorpha — 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, 



