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Mycologia 
15. Lamprospora Constellatio (Berk. & Br.) 
Peziza Constellatio Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV. 17: 
142. 1876. 
Leucoloma Constellatio Rehm, Ber. Naturh. Ver. Augsburg 26: 
5. 1881. 
Pulvinula Constellatio Bourl. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1 : 107. 1885. 
Aleuria Constellatio Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 207. (1888?) 
Barlaeina Constellatio Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 188. 1902. ■ 
Plants gregarious or scattered, at first globose, becoming ex- 
panded and plane or slightly concave, 1-5 mm. in diameter, 
hymenium bright red, color becoming brighter in dried specimens, 
often almost scarlet, externally lighter;, asci cylindric or sub- 
cylindric, about 250-300 X 20 /x ; with a long stem-like base; 
spores smooth with one large oil-drop often surrounded by numer- 
ous smaller ones, hyaline, 15-20 /x (usually about 18) in diameter, 
hyaline; paraphyses filiform, only slightly thickened at the ends 
and very much hooked and curved, entirely filled with red 
granules and sparingly septate. 
On bare ground in rich soil. 
Type locality: Addington, Kent, Great Britain. 
Distribution: New Jersey to Ontario, Colorado and Jamaica; 
also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 407; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 21, 
f. 81. m 
Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 20j<5. 
I have not seen the type of this species but American specimens 
conform well with European' illustrations and exsiccati. The 
species was frequently collected by the writer in the Rocky Moun- 
tains and has been less frequently collected in the East. 
16. Lamprospora gemma (Phill.) 
Pcziza gemma Phill. Grevillea 7: 21. 1878. 
Barlaea gemma Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 112. 1889. 
Plants gregarious, sessile, fleshy, subturbinate, finally expanded 
with the hymenium plane or slightly concave, asci cylindric; 
spores i-seriate, globose, smooth, hyaline, about 8/x in diameter; 
paraphyses filiform, very slender and branched, straight or more 
or less curved at their apices. 
On decaying foliage of Sequoia sempervirens. 
