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Mycologia 



delicate fringe, pale orange ; hymenium roughened by the pro- 

 truding asci; asci cylindric, operculate, 15-18)11 in diameter; 

 spores globose, at first smooth with a large oil-drop, gradually be- 

 coming roughened, at maturity coarsely tuberculate, about 16/x in 

 diameter, hyaline; paraphyses clavate {pi. 57, /. 1-5). 



On damp soil among moss in open places ; type collected near 

 Yonkers, New York. The same species has been collected by the 

 writer in New Jersey and by Mr. B. O. Dodge in Virginia. 



Lamprospora areolata sp. nov. 



Plants small, 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, at first globose opening 

 rather irregularly, at maturity with the hymenium plane or 

 slightly convex, more or less roughened by the ends of the asci, 

 bright red; asci cylindric, 15-18//, in diameter, 8-spored ; spores 

 globose, at first smooth, with a large oil-drop, becoming rough 

 at maturity deeply areolate, about i6/x in diameter; paraphyses 

 clavate {pi. 57, f. 6-8). 



On soil among moss in a beaten path in woods near Yonkers, 

 New York. 



Both the plants and the spores are similar to Humaria calo- 

 spora Quel, as figured by Boudier in Ic. Myc. pi. 400, except that 

 the spores are perfectly globose instead of ellipsoid. 



