Seaver: Study of Genus Lamprospora 
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io. Lamprospora Wrightii (Berk. & Curt.) 
Peziza Wrightii Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15 '■ 444 - 
1865. 
Barlaea Wrightii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 112. 1889. 
Humaria Wrightii Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. 68. 1907. 
Plants gregarious or scattered, at first globose, becoming ex- 
panded with the hymenium plane or slightly concave, surrounded 
by a delicate irregular elevated margin giving it a fringe-like 
border, entirely pale orange, slightly paler externally and minutely 
roughened ; asci cylindric or slightly clavate ; spores usually 
i-seriate or irregularly crowded, globose or more often just 
slightly ellipsoid, at first smooth, with one or sometimes several 
oil-drops, becoming roughened at maturity, roughenings taking 
the form of small wart-like bodies, which are usually rather 
widely scattered over the surface of the spore, 15-17^ in 
diameter, hyaline; paraphyses strongly enlarged above, filled with 
granules. 
On bark of trees among moss. 
Type locality: Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, Wales. 
Distribution : Alabama, Texas and Cuba ; also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15: pi. 75, /. 16; 
Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 399; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 5, /. 18. 
The spores were originally described as echinulate but this may 
have been due to faulty observation since later students of the 
type describe the spores as verrucose. An Alabama specimen 
examined agrees perfectly with Boudier’s illustration of this 
species. 
1 1. 'Lamprospora tuberculatella sp. nov. 
Plants gregarious but never crowded, often five or six plants 
in the space of 1 cm., at first globose, opening at the top and 
gradually expanding, at maturity discoid, convex above and 
floccose with the asci which protrude above the hymenium half 
their length appearing as many minute white spines, whole plant 
pale orange, .3-.5 mm. in diameter or rarely reaching a diameter 
of I mm.; asci cylindric or subcylindric ; spores i-seriate, at first 
smooth and with one large oil-drop near the center, increasing in 
size as they mature, at maturity about 20 ^ in diameter and 
covered with small tubercle-like markings, tubercles covering the 
surface of the spore and appearing beyond the periphery of the 
