66 The North American Cup-Fungi 



13. Lamprospora Wrightii (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 

 15. 1914. (Plate 3, fig. 9.) 



Peziza Wrightii Berk. & Curt.; Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15: 444. 



1865. 

 Barlaea Wrightii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 112. 1889. 

 Humaria Wrightii Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 68. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, at first globose, expanding 

 and becoming subdiscoid, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm., 

 externally pale-yellow and minutely roughened; hymenium plane 

 or slightly concave, surrounded by a delicate fringe-like border, 

 a little darker than the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric 

 or slightly clavate above, rather abruptly tapering below into 

 a stem-like base, reaching a length of 175-200 /x and a diameter 

 of 17-18 m; spores usually 1-seriate, or occasionally irregularly 

 crowded, globose or very slightly ellipsoid, at first smooth and 

 containing one to several oil-drops, finally becoming sculptured, 

 reaching a diameter of 15-17 ju, hyaline; spore-sculpturing taking 

 the form of small warts which are usually rather widely scattered 

 over the surface of the spore ; paraphyses strongly enlarged above, 

 filled with granules. 



On the bark of trees among mosses. 



Type locality: Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, Wales. 



Distribution: Alabama, Texas, Cuba, and reported from 

 Nebraska; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15: pi. 15, f. 16; 

 Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 399; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 3, f. 18; My- 

 cologia 6: pi. 114 J'. 11. 



14. Lamprospora tuberculatella Seaver, Mycologia 6: 15. 1914. 

 (Plate 3, fig. 5; 45, fig. 9, 10.) 



Apothecia gregarious but never crowded, often five or six 

 plants in the space of 1 cm., at first subglobose, expanding and 

 becoming short-cylindric, finally discoid, pale-orange, reaching a 

 diameter of 0.3-0.5 mm. or rarely as large as 1 mm.; hymenium 

 becoming plane or nearly so, a little darker than the outside of 

 the apothecium, roughened by the protruding asci which appear 

 as minute white spines, surrounded by a delicate fringe-like 

 border; asci cylindric or subcylindric above, tapering rather 

 abruptly into a stem-like base, reaching a length of 225-250 n 

 and a diameter of 25 m; spores 1-seriate, at first smooth and 

 containing one large oil-drop, reaching a diameter of 18-20 ^i, 

 hyaline, finally becoming sculptured; spore-sculpturing taking the 



