BULGARIE.Z. 313 
with white nonseptate hairs near the base; asci broadly 
clavate; sporidia elliptic, smooth, hyaline, 22 x 10u; 
paraphyses filiform, filled with orange granules. 
Ascobolus ciliatus—Berk., “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 3874; 
“ Ann, Nat. Hist.,” No. 1083, t& 14, f. 7; Cooke, “Jour. 
Bot.,” 1864; “Handbk.,” No. 2215; Schmidt, “Myco. 
Hefte,” i. p. 90 (2); 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 3 to 4a line broad. The pseudo parenchyma 
consists of square or oblong cells as figured by B. and 
Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” t.14, £. 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. 
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Order IV— BULGARIEZ. 
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 Ascobolee ; 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. 
