BULGARIA 315 



t. 22, f. 7; Tul., "Ann. Sc. Nat.,"ser. 3, pp. 160-164, t. 15, 

 f. 1-7; and "Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. t. 17, f. 9, 10; 

 Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2217 ; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 286 ; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 146, c. i. 



Exs. — Moug. and Nest., 197; Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," 

 ed. i. 551, ed. ii. 569; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 462; 

 Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. 599 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 

 324; Rav., "Fung. Carol.," v. 43; Fckl., 1136; Rehm, 

 " Asco." 74 ; Phil., " El v. Brit.," 49 ; Winter, " Fungi 

 Eur.," 2107 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fungi," 448. 



On dead trunks of trees. 



Receptacles J to 1 J inches broad, single or in fascicu- 

 late heaps. " Tough, elastic, gelatinous, dark brown or 

 chocolate, almost black, wrinkled, and rough externally; 

 hymenium sometimes lacunose ; stem in general black, 

 almost obsolete, sometimes fasciculate, and confluent ' 

 (Berk.). 



Name — -Bulga, a leathern bag. 



Clifton! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Sutton Coldfield ! (Mr. W. 

 B. Grove). Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). Hawthornden, Edin- 

 burgh ! Hey wood Forest, Herefordshire ! Haughmond 

 Hill, Salop ! Chetwynd Park, Salop ! Church Stretton, 

 Salop ! 



2. Bulgaria pulla. Fries. 



Subgelatinous, sessile, glabrous, when young plane, 

 quite entire, olivaceous, afterwards convex and quite 

 black ; disc pruinose, pulverulent ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, uniseriate, elliptic, brown, guttulate, 10 — 

 16x75 — 8/ul; paraphyses thickened upwards, adherent, 

 and brown. 



Bulgaria pulla — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 358 ; 

 Bucknall, " Fung. Bristol," No. 1075. Patellaria pulla 

 —Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 160. 



On dead wood. 



Cups J to 1 line broad. Gregarious, separate or in 

 confluent series, black within ; hymenium olten pruinose 

 from the scattered sporidia. 



Blaize Castle Wood! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



