Lamprospora 73 



ternally smoky-pallid and smooth, attached to the soil by slender 

 fibers, reaching a diameter of 1-2 cm.; hymenium plane or 

 concave, becoming black or blackish; asci cylindric or sub- 

 cylindric, reaching a length of 150^ and a diameter of 10 /i; 

 spores 1 -seriate, at first smooth, becoming sculptured and smoky- 

 brown, reaching a diameter of 9^; spore-sculpturing consisting 

 of rather coarse warts, the warts rounded, rather conspicuous 

 and about 2 fx in diameter; paraphyses slender, thickened above, 

 yellowish-brown . 



On burnt ground. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Jour. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist. 18: pi. 3,f. 17. 



26. Lamprospora leiocarpa (Curr.) Seaver, Mycologia 6: 21. 

 1914. 



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



PUcaria foveata Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 326. 1869. 



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



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



Aleuria leiocarpa Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. (suites). 1890. 



Curreyella foveata Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. 4: 402. 1895. 



Plicariella leiocarpa Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 994. 1896. 



Apothecia gregarious, scattered or crowded, at first globose 

 and closed, expanding and becoming shallow cup-shaped, regular 

 in form or cochleate and occasionally incised and Otidea-Wk^e, at 

 length scutellate or subdiscoid, externally reddish-brown to 

 brownish-black with a slight tinge of olive, often strongly 

 roughened, reaching a diameter of 2-3 cm.; hymenium smooth 

 and even or undulated and lobed, similar in color to the outside 

 of the apothecium but a little darker; asci cylindric or sub- 

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

 a length of 350 m and a diameter of 15-18 /x; spores at first 

 irregularly 2-seriate, finally separating and becoming 1-seriate, 

 hyaline or slightly yellowish, rather thick-walled, smooth, reach- 

 ing a diameter of 10-12 n, usually containing one large central 

 oil-drop; paraphyses sl-ender, rather abruptly enlarged above, 

 densely granular within, reaching a diameter of 7 ju. showing a 

 tendency to adhere together in fascicles. 



On burnt ground. 



Type locality: Ascot Heath, Great Britain. 



