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18. Lamprospora Constellatio (Berk. & Br.) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 

 18. 1914. (Plate 45, fig. 7.) 



fCrouania hnmosa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 320. 1869. (excl. syn.) 



Peziza Constellatio Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV. 17: 142. 1876. 



Leucoloma Constellatio Rehm, Ber. Naturh. Ver. Augsburg 26: 5. 1881. 



Pulvinula Constellatio Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 107. 1885. 



Aleuria Constellatio Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 207. 1888. 



Barlaea Constellatio minuta Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 4: 10. 1896. 



Plicariella Constellatio Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1': 180. 1897. 



Barlaeina Constellatio minuta Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 749. 



1899. 

 Barlaeina Constellatio Sacc. & Sydow in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 749. 1899. 

 Detonia Constellatio Rehm; Dodge, Trans. Wise. Acad. 17: 1037. 1914. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, at first globose, expanding 

 and becoming scutellate to discoid, pale-orange, reaching a 

 diameter of 1-5 mm.; hymenium bright-red, the color becoming 

 brighter in dried specimens, often almost scarlet; asci cylindric 

 or subcylindric above, tapering into a long stem-like base, 

 reaching a length of 250-300 /x and a diameter of 20 ju; spores 

 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, reaching a diameter of 15-20 /z, con- 

 taining one large oil-drop which is often surrounded by numerous 

 smaller ones; paraphyses filiform, only slightly thickened at 

 their apices and very much curved and hooked, septate, filled 

 with red granules. 



On bare ground, especially on rich soil in woods or meadows. 



Type locality: Addington, Kent, Great Britain. 



Distribution: New Jersey to Ontario, Colorado, California 

 and Jamaica; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 407; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 21, f. 81; Pat. Tab. Fung./. 372. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 2036. 



19. Lamprospora wisconsinensis Seaver, nom. nov. 



Barlaea laeteruhra Rehm, Ann. Myc. 3: 516. 1905. Not Peziza laetirtibra 



Cooke. 

 Barlaeina laeterubra Sacc. & Trott. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 22: 622. 1913. 

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



Apothecia scattered, at first globose or subglobose, expanding 

 and becoming discoid or subdiscoid, pale-yellow, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding 1 mm. in diameter; hymenium plane or nearly so, 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 150-175 m and a diameter of 12-14 m; spores at 



