62 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On the ground among mosses. 

 Type locality: The New York Botanical Garden. 

 Distribution: New York City and New Jersey. 

 Illustration: Mycologia 6: pi. 114, f. 5. 



8. Lamprospora Crec'hqueraultii (Crouan) Bond. Hist. Class. 

 Discom. Eu. 69. 1907. (Plate 3, fig. 1 ; 45, fig. 8.) 



Ascoholus Crec'hqueraultii Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat. I\\ 10: 194. 1858. 



Peziza modesta Karst. Not. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 10: 122. 1869. 



Peziza echinosperma Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 95. 1872. 



Peziza auriflava Cooke, Mycographia 16. 1875. 



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



MoUisia Crec'hqueraultii Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 118. 1882. 



Crouania asperella Rehm, Hedwigia 24: 226. 1885. 



Humaria Crec'hqueraultii Quel. Ench. Fung. 288. 1886. 



Barlaea Crec'hqueraultii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 113. 1889. 



Barlaea asperella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 113. 1889. 



Barlaea modesta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 113. 1889. 



Humaria echinosperma Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 130. 1889. 



Plicariella modesta Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. T: 180. 1897. 



Barlaeina Crec'hqueraultii Sacc. & Trott. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 22: 621. 1913. 



Apothecia gregarious, becoming discoid to scutellate, very 

 pale-orange, externally smooth, reaching a diameter of 2-5 mm.; 

 hymenium becoming plane or more often convex, the margin 

 indistinct, pale-orange fading to a dirty-yellow in dried plants; 

 excipulum composed of large roundish cells below and giving rise 

 to a palisade of mycelium above, the loose ends of which are club- 

 shaped, reaching a diameter of 17-18 m; asci cylindric or sub- 

 cylindric above, reaching a length of 300-325 m and a diameter 

 of 27 M, often protruding above the surface of the hymenium; 

 spores 1 -seriate, at first smooth, becoming sculptured, reaching a 

 diameter of 20-25 /x including sculpturing, hyaline; spore-sculp- 

 turing taking the form of very sharp spines, the spines broad 

 at the base, reaching a length of 2-3 m, in dried specimens often 

 bent or adpressed but regaining their normal form when wet; 

 paraphyses rather stout, reaching a diameter of 3-4 m below, 

 enlarged above and often reaching a diameter of 10 m at their 

 apices. 



On clayey soil. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Delaware, West Virginia and 

 Colorado; also in Europe and Australia. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: pi. 3, f. 



