Lamprospora 71 



1-seriate, smooth, rather thick-walled, reaching a diameter of 

 15-20 fx, hyaline; paraphyses slender below, reaching a diameter 

 of 3 fx, enlarged upwards to 5 /x, occasionally branched, straight 

 or strongly curved or hooked at their apices. 



On bare sandy soil or among mosses. 



Type locality: Java. 



Distribution: New York; also in Europe. 



22. Lamprospora salmonicolor Seaver, Mycologia 17: 47. 1925. 



Apothecia discoid, with the hymenium plane or slightly con- 

 vex, reaching a diameter of 2 mm., pale salmon-colored; asci 

 cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 275 fx and a 

 diameter of 20-24 fx; spores globose, filled with minute granules, 

 smooth, 20 fx in diameter when mature; paraphyses clavate. 



On bare ground. 



Type locality: El Yunque, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



23. Lamprospora trachycarpa (Curr.) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 19. 

 1914. 



Peziza trachycarpa Curr. Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: 493. 1864. 

 ?Bidgaria carhonaria Fuckel, Fungi Rhen. 1137. 1865. 

 ?Peziza alrospora Fuckel, Fungi Rhen. 1224. 1865. 

 ?Plicaria carbonaria Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 326. 1869. 

 ?Plicaria ferruginea Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 326. 1869. 

 Peziza scahrosa Cooke, Mycographia 170. 1877. 

 Discina trachycarpa Karst. Act. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 2: 113. 1885. 

 Aleuria trachycarpa Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 207. 1886. 

 Detonia trachycarpa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 105. 1889. 

 Phaeopezia scahrosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 472. 1889. 

 ?Phaeopezia atrospora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 472. 1889. 

 Curreyella trachycarpa Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 401. 1895. 

 Plicariella trachycarpa Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 1-': 996. 1896. 



Apothecia gregarious or densely crowded, often forming con- 

 tinuous masses extending over a space of several cm., at first 

 subglobose, expanding and becoming shallow cup-shaped with 

 the margin elevated and incurved, or more rarely scutellate and 

 closely adhering to the substratum, regular in form or cochleate 

 and becoming very irregular from mutual pressure, externally 

 paler than the hymenium and usually rough and scabrous, 

 reaching a diameter of from a few mm. to 2 cm. ; hymenium 

 smooth or convolute, dark reddish-brown or slightly olivaceous, 

 becoming black when old or in dried specimens; asci cylindric or 



