Seaver: Study of Genus Lamprospora 
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slightly floccose; asci cylindric-clavate, about 225X18-20^.; 
spores perfectly globose and smooth with one oil-drop varying 
in size but often almost filling the spore, entire spore 15-18 /x in 
diameter, hyaline; paraphvses filiform or slightly enlarged at their 
apices, extending high above the asci and curved or hooked, 
about 3-4 n in diameter at their apices. 
On soil among moss plants in a place which has been recently 
burned but subsequently partially overgrown with moss. 
Type locality: Oestrich and Budenheim woods, Germany. 
Distribution : New York; also in Europe. 
Through the courtesy of Dr. Farlow, I have been permitted to 
examine spores of cotype material of this species. Specimens 
collected in the New York Botanical Garden agree with Fuckel’s 
plants so far as we can judge from dried specimens. The species 
has been seen by the writer only once but occurred in good 
quantity. 
14. Lamprospora haemastigma (Hedw.)? 
Octospora haemastigma Hedw. Laub-Moose 2: 17. 1788. 
Pulvinula haemastigma Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. 70. 1907. 
Plants rather thickly gregarious, rarely two or three in close 
contact, at first globose, becoming expanded with the hymenium 
plane or slightly concave, entirely pale yellow (becoming brighter 
in dried specimens), about 1 mm. in diameter; asci cylindric or 
subcylindric, 20-23 /x in diameter and as long as 300 /x'; tapering 
below into a stem-like base; spores i-seriate, smooth, usually with 
one large oil-drop, about 20 /x in diameter, hyaline; paraphyses 
very slender, strongly curved at their apices and scarcely thick- 
ened above, about 2 /x in diameter at the thickest point, densely 
filled with yellow granules. 
On damp soil among moss. 
Type locality: Europe. 
Distribution: New York; also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Hedw. Laub-Moose 2: pi. 5, /. i-j; Boud. Ic. 
Myc. pi. 406. 
Our plants agree well with Boudier’s illustrations of what he 
takes to be Hedwig’s species. It also agrees fairly well with 
Hedwig’s illustration although the plants are somewhat paler. 
The species differs from L. Constellatio by the smaller size of the 
plants and much paler color. 
