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5. Lamprospora ascoboloides Seaver, Mycologia 6: 10. 1914. 



(Plate 3, fig. 7.) 



Apothecia gregarious, at first globose and closed, nestling in 

 little depressions in the substratum, gradually expanding and, 

 becoming discoid or subdiscoid, externally slightly floccose, 

 usually not exceeding 1 mm. in diameter, pale-orange; hymenium 

 at first concave, becoming plane and finally convex, roughened 

 by the protruding asci, the entire hymenium collapsing in 

 dried specimens and becoming concave; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 tapering rather abruptly below into a stem-like base, reaching a 

 length of 175-225 ju and a diameter of 18-23 /x; spores at first 

 smooth and containing one or two oil-drops, finally becoming 

 sculptured, reaching a diameter of 15-18 ju, hyaline; spore- 

 sculpturing taking the form of ridge-like markings, the ridges 

 straight or curved and extending in almost any direction, 

 occasionally being parallel or anastomosing and giving rise 

 to a few imperfect reticulations but never perfectly reticulate, 

 about 2 jjL thick, resembling those of some species of Ascobolus; 

 paraphyses clavate, reaching a diameter of 5-6 ix, at their apices, 

 densely filled with minute granules. 



On the ground among mosses in meadows. 



Type locality: Portland, Connecticut. 



Distribution: Connecticut, New York and Virginia. 



Illustration: Mycologia 6: pi. 114, f. 8. 



6. Lamprospora annulata Seaver, Mycologia 6: 11. 1914. 



(Plate 3, fig. 8.) 



Apothecia gregarious but not crowded, at first subglobose 

 and nestling in little cavities in the substratum, expanding and 

 becoming discoid or subdiscoid, pale-orange, reaching a diameter 

 of 0.5-1 mm.; hymenium becoming plane or nearly plane and 

 more or less pitted or roughened, a little darker than the outside 

 of the apothecium; asci cylindric or subcylindric above, rather 

 abruptly attenuated below into a short, much contorted pedicel, 

 reaching a length of 200 /x and a diameter of about 20 n, at first 

 almost filled with the spores, later stretching and the lower 

 part becoming almost equal in length to the spore-bearing part; 

 spores 1 -seriate from the first, smooth, when young containing 

 a number of small oil-drops, finally with one large oil-drop, 

 reaching a diameter of 16-18 n, hyaline, becoming minutely 

 verrucose and marked about the proximal and distal sides by 



