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Mycologia 
nearly perfect hexagonal figures or with the sides of irregular 
length, 2-3 fj. deep as indicated by the projecting ridges about the 
periphery of the spore, ridges thin scarcely more than 1 /x thick, 
entire spore including projections 18-20 /x in diameter, hyaline; 
paraphyses strongly thickened above. 
On damp soil among mosses and algae. 
Type locality: Yonkers, New York. 
Distribution : New York to Connecticut. 
Illustrations: Mycologia 4: pi. 57, f. 5-8. 
Since the publication of this species, it has been frequently 
collected about New York City. The largest plants seen are not 
over 1 mm. in diameter. The peculiar spore characters men- 
tioned in the original description have been found to be constant 
in all of the specimens examined. 
4. Lamprospora ascoboloides sp. nov. 
Plants gregarious, at first globose and partially buried, gradually 
opening with the hymenium at first slightly concave, gradually 
becoming plane and at maturity convex with the margin indis- 
tinct, usually not exceeding 1 mm. in diameter and often smaller, 
closely nestling in little depressions in the substratum but never 
buried, entirely orange, externally slightly floccose, hymenium 
roughened by the protruding asci which are comparatively large, 
finally becoming pitted as a result of the collapsing of the empty 
asci, the hymenium often collapsing when dry becoming concave; 
asci cylindric-clavate, about 175-225X18-20^; spores at first 
smooth with one or two oil-drops gradually becoming rough, in- 
creasing in size, at maturity covered with irregular ridge-like 
markings ; ridges straight or more often curved, several often 
parallel or extending in various directions and sometimes at right 
angles, occasionally branched, rarely a few running together 
giving rise to irregular and imperfect reticulations over a part of 
the spore but never completely or perfectly reticulate, ridges 
nearly 2 /x thick, markings resembling those of certain species of 
Ascobolus, 15-18/x in diameter (usually about 17 ^ at maturity), 
hyaline ; paraphyses clavate, 5-6 /x in diameter at their apices. 
Type collected on soil in Portland, Connecticut. 
Distribution: Connecticut, New York and Virginia. 
The species has been frequently collected about New York City 
since the original collection was made in Portland, Connecticut. 
The species is distinguished by the peculiar Ascobolus-Yike mark- 
ings of the spores. 
