iiULGAEIELLA OMBKOPHILA. 141 



Bulgariella, Karsten, Rev. Mon., p. 139 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 p. 638. 



Bulgaria of authors. 



Distinguished from Bulgaria by the disc being open and 

 plane from the earliest stage of development, and not ex- 

 panding gradually. 



Bulgariella pulla. Karsten, Rev., p. 142; Sacc., Syll., 

 viii. n. 2632. (figs. 8-10, p. 156.) 



Subgelatinous, sessile, patellate, black, with a tinge of 

 olive, scattered or aggregated in more or less crowded lines, 

 circular when isolated, often irregular from lateral pressure 

 when crowded, 12 mm. across, glabrous, blackish inside ; 

 asci cylindrical, with a slender pedicel, 8-spored; spores ob- 

 liquely 1-seriate, continuous, smooth, olive then brown, 

 usually elliptical, ends rather acute, but varying to almost 

 globose, 10-15 X 79 fj. ; paraphyses slender, rather wavy, 

 usually containing a single row of blackish granules at the 

 slightly thickened tips. 



Bulgaria pulla, Fries, Summa Yeg. Scand., p. 358 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc., p. 315. 



Patellaria pulla, Fries, Syst. Myc., ii. p. 160. 



On rotten wood. 



Resembling a black Patellaria in appearance, but distin- 

 guished by the gelatinous substance. The blackish granules 

 in the paraphyses become purple when treated with potassic 

 hydrate. 



OMBROPHILA. Fries, (figs. 13, 14, p. 156.) 



Ascophore gelatinous when moist, rigid and horny when 

 dry, more or less stipitate ; disc plane or convex, rarely con- 

 cave ; excipiilum composed of interwoven hyphae ; asci cy- 

 lindrical, apex rounded, base narrowed, 8-spored; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, elliptical or elliptic- 

 fusoid ; paraphyses present. 



Ombrophila, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 357 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, (in part). 



Peziza and Bulgaria of some authors. 



Saprophytic. Distinguished among genera with hyaline, 

 continuous spores, by the stipitate, gelatinous ascophore. 



