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Mycologia 
larged above attaining a diameter of 6 n, filled with orange 
granules. 
On soil in open places among mosses and algae. 
Type locality: Woods near Yonkers, New York. 
Distribution: New York to Virginia. 
Illustrations : Mycologia 4 : pi. 57, f. 1-4. 
Numerous collections of this species have been made about 
New York City during the past season. The coarse tuberculate 
marking of the spores is a constant feature in all of the specimens 
examined. 
9. Lamprospora Maireana sp. nov. 
Plants gregarious, at first globose, becoming expanded, at 
maturity with the hymenium plane or slightly concave, entirely 
pale orange without and within, reaching a diameter of about 
2 mm. ; asci cylindric or subcylindric, gradually tapering below 
into a stem-like base, having a diameter of 30 /a at the broadest 
point and reaching a length of 300-325^; spores i-seriate, per- 
fectly globose, at first smooth, at maturity becoming roughened, 
roughenings taking the form of tubercles which are as large as 
3-5 fx in diameter and appearing as scallops about the periphery 
of the spore, the tubercles bearing secondary roughenings which 
give to each a minutely roughened surface, and giving the whole 
spore a translucent effect, entire spore at maturity, about 23 jx in 
diameter, subhyaline; paraphyses strongly thickened at their 
apices, reaching a thickness of 8ju. 
On the ground among moss and algae. 
Type locality: Algiers, North Africa. 
Distribution: New York; also in North Africa. 
Exsiccati : Maire, Myc. Bor. Africana 22 (as L. tuberculata 
Seaver). 
This species was distributed by R. Maire as L. tuberculata. 
Close comparison however shows the two to be quite different. 
The plants are larger, the spores larger and the sculpturing of the 
spores quite different. The warts in the African species are not 
so prominent as in L. tuberculata and the secondary roughening 
of the tubercles does not occur in L. tuberculata. A single local 
collection has been made by the writer in which the spores agree 
with the specimen collected by Maire so that the species probably 
occurs in North America. 
