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2. Lamprospora laetirubra (Cooke) Lagarde, Ann. Myc. 4: 213 



1906. 

 Peziza laetirubra Cooke, Grevillea 3: 31. 1874; Mycographia 14. 1875. 



Apothecia scattered or thickly gregarious, at first globose or 

 subglobose, expanding and becoming patellate, entirely bright- 

 orange, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm.; hymenium strongly 

 convex, becoming pitted and rough with age after the spores 

 have been discharged; asci cylindric or subcylindric; spores per- 

 fectly globose, containing one large oil-drop which nearly fills 

 the spore, reaching a diameter of 15-18 m, finally becoming 

 delicately sculptured; spore-sculpturing taking the form of very 

 coarse and irregular reticulations; paraphyses slender, enlarged 

 above, filled with orange granules. 



On damp soil in gardens which have been overrun with 

 mosses; also in pastures and meadows. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Iowa and Indiana; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: 

 pi. 12, f. Z (as Barlaea cinnaharina (Fuckel) Sacc.) ; Ann. Myc. 4: 

 213, /. 33; Grevillea 3 : pi. 30, f. 56. 



According to Fuckel Crouania cinnaharina with which the 

 present species is thought by some to be synonymous has reticu- 

 late spores. Examination of a specimen from Fungi Rhenani 

 No. Z481 shows the spores to be smooth. While this may have 

 been an immature specimen it leaves the identity of Fuckel's 

 plant in doubt. It may be the same as the one here discussed. 

 Our specimens are characterized by the very coarse, loose reticu- 

 lations. These plants have been frequently collected in Iowa. 



3. Lamprospora dictydiola Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 68. 



1907. 



Barlaeina dictydiola Sacc. & Trott. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 22: 62L 1913. 



Apothecia scattered or gregarious but never crowded, at 

 first subglobose, expanding and becoming subdiscoid, reaching a 

 diameter of 1 mm. (in the living plants examined) ; hymenium 

 becoming plane or nearly so, bordered by a delicate, ragged, 

 fringe-like margin, roughened by the protruding asci, finally 

 becoming more or less pitted apparently from the collapsing of 

 the old asci, orange, a little darker than the outside of the 

 apothecium; asci cylindric or subcyhndric, reaching a length of 



