BULGARIA. 315 
t. 22, £7; Tul, “Ann. Se, Nat.,” ser. 3, pp. 160-164, t. 15, 
f. 1-7; and “Select. Fung. Carp.,” iii. t. 17, f 9, 10; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2017 ; Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 286 ; 
Gill, “Champ.,.” p. 146, ei. 
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; Fekl., 1136; Rehm, 
“ Asco.,” 74; Phil, “Elv. Brit.” 49; Winter, “Fungi 
Eur.,” 2107; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 448. 
On dead trunks of trees. 
Receptacles 4 to 14 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 confiuent ” 
(Berk.). 
Name—Bulga, a leathern bag. 
Clifton! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Sutton Coldfield ! (Mr. W. 
B. Grove). Carlisle! (Dr. Carlyle). Hawthornden, Edin- 
burgh! Heywood 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— 
16 x 75—8y; paraphyses thickened upwards, adherent, 
and brown. 
Bulgaria pulla—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 358; 
Bucknall, “ Fung. Bristol,” No. 1075. atellaria pulla 
—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 160. 
On dead wood. 
Cups 4 to 1 line broad. Gregarious, separate or in 
confluent series, black within; hymenium often pruinose 
from the scattered sporidia. 
Blaize Castle Wood! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
