68 The North American Cup-Fungi 



pale-orange, reaching a diameter of 1-4 mm.; hymenium be- 

 coming plane or slightly concave, roughened by the protruding 

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

 cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 225 fj. and a di- 

 ameter of 18-20 m; spores smooth, hyaline, reaching a diameter 

 of 15-18 /x, containing one oil-drop which nearly fills the spore; 

 paraphyses filiform or slightly enlarged at their apices, extending 

 far beyond the young asci and strongly curved or hooked, 

 reaching a diameter of 3-4 n at their apices. 



On soil among mosses in places which have been burned 

 but subsequently overgrown with mosses. 



Type locality: Oestrich and Budenheim woods, Germany. 



Distribution: New York and Connecticut to Montana; also 

 in Europe. 



Illustration: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 401 (as L. carhonicola) . 



17. Lamprospora haemastigma (Hedw.) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 

 17. 1914. (Plate 45, fig. 1.) 



?Peziza convexeUa Karst. Not. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 10: 123. 1869. 



Humaria haemastigma Quel. Ench. Fung. 289. 1886. 



Pyronema haemastigma Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 108. 1889. (excl. descr.) 



?Octospora haemastigma Hedw. Descr. 2: 17. 1788. 



?Barlaea convexeUa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 114. 1889. 



Pulvinula haemastigma Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 70. 1907. 



Detonia convexeUa Dodge, Trans. Wise. Acad. 17: 1037. 1914. 



Apothecia rather thickly gregarious but not usually crowded, 

 at first subglobose, expanding and becoming discoid, pale- 

 yellow to red, becoming brighter in dried specimens, reaching a 

 diameter of 1 mm.; hymenium plane or slightly concave, similar 

 in color to the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric or sub- 

 cylindric above, tapering below into a stem-like base, reaching a 

 length of 300 m and a diameter of 20-23 m; spores 1-seriate, 

 smooth, usually containing one to several oil-drops, reaching a 

 diameter of 20 ju, hyaline; paraphyses very slender, straight or 

 often strongly curved at their apices, scarcely thickened above, 

 reaching a diameter of 2 /x, densely filled with yellow granules. 



On damp soil among mosses. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : New York to Wisconsin ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Hedw. Descr. 2: pi. 5, f. 1-5; Boud. Ic. 

 Myc. pi. 406. 



