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The North American Cup-Fungi 



Spores smooth. 



Apothecia pale-orange. 



About 3 or 4 mm. in diameter at maturity, 



crowded, on burnt ground. 

 About 1 mm. or less in diameter, scattered, 

 on damp soil. 

 Apothecia bright-red. 



Several mm. in diameter, on damp soil. 

 Spores 15-20 m in diameter. 

 Spores 10 ix in diameter. 

 Less than 1 mm. in diameter; spores 8-9 n 

 in diameter, on foliage of Sequoia. 

 Apothecia pallid or creamy. 

 Apothecia salmon-colored. 

 Apothecia large, usually 5 mm. or more in diameter; 

 spores often faintly colored. 

 Apothecia dark-colored, purple or brown to 

 blackish. 

 Brown or blackish, occurring on burnt ground. 

 Spores rough. 



Apothecia externally rough; spores 

 about 16 M in diameter. 

 Spore-sculpturing consisting of rather 



coarse warts. 

 Spore-sculpturing consisting of mi- 

 nute papillae or pits. 

 Apothecia externally smooth; spores 

 about 9 M in diameter. 

 Spores smooth. 

 Apothecia dark-purple, occurring on damp 

 soil. 

 Apothecia bright-colored, orange. 

 Spores sculptured. 



Spore-sculpturing consisting of irregular 



lumps. 

 Spore-sculpturing consisting of minute 

 warts. 

 Spores smooth. 



16. L. carhonaria. 



17. L. haemastigma. 



18. L. Constellatio. 



19. L. wisconsinensis. 



20. L. gemmea. 



21. L. discoidea. 



22. L. saJmonicolor. 



23. L. trachycarpa. 



24. L. Detonia. 



25. L. tit grafts. 



26. L. leiocarpa. 



21 . L. Planchonis. 



28. L. lobala. 



29. L. exasperata. 



30. L. polytrichina. 



1. Lamprospora Crouani (Cooke) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 8. 1914. 

 (Plate 3, fig. 2; 45, fig. 2, 3.) 



Ascobolus miniatus Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat. l\ . 10: 197. 1858. Not A. 



miniatus Preuss, Linnaea 24: 147. 1851. 

 Ascobolus Crouani Cooke, Jour. Bot. 2: 151. 1864. 

 Peziza Crouani Cooke, Grevillea 3: 31. 1874. 

 Crouania miniata Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 320. 1869. 

 Lamprospora miniata De-Not. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 388. 1864. 

 Aleuria Crouani Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 50. 1879. 



