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Mycologia 
purple and both asci and paraphyses surrounded with purple 
coloring matter which can be partially extracted with water from 
the dried plants, 5-8 mm. in diameter; asci cylindric, with a 
slender stem, about 200X13-15 Ml spores i-seriate, perfectly 
globose, at first hyaline with one and sometimes several oil-drops, 
becoming pale purplish (as are also the paraphyses and asci), 
smooth or very minutely roughened, at maturity about 10-12 fx. in 
diameter ; paraphyses clavate, about 6 /x in diameter at their apices, 
filled with purple granules. 
On sandy soil by roadsides, hillsides and on sand-dunes. 
Type locality: France. 
Distribution : Common in the Bermudas ; also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 3: pi. 8 ; Boud. Ic. Mvc. 
pi. 3 op. 
This little purple fungus is the commonest cup-fungus in the 
Bermudas, occurring by roadsides and on hillsides in pastures and 
open places. Numerous collections were made by Stewardson 
Brown, N. L. Britton and the writer during the winter of 1912. 
So far as I am aware, this is the first record of the species from 
North America. A closely related species, Peziza Persoonii, is 
said to differ in having rough spores. No specimen of the latter 
species has been seen by the writer from North America. 
22. Lamprospora lobata (Berk. & Curt.) 
Peziza lobata Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 365. 1869. 
Barlaea lobata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 117. 1889. 
Plants scattered, and shallow cup-shaped to nearly plane or with 
the margin slightly elevated and undulated or lobed ; hymenium 
dull orange, paler below, about 5-12 mm. in diameter; asci cylin- 
dric or subcylindric, 15-18 /x in diameter and of variable length 
but usually about 250 /x; spores i-seriate, at first smooth, becom- 
ing rough at maturity, roughenings consisting of four to six 
tubercles of variable size which appear beyond the periphery of 
the spore and with several more or less indistinct lines or bands 
extending across the surface of the spore in various directions 
resembling pieces of coarse twine wound about its surface, the 
inequality in the size of the tubercles giving the mature spore a 
rather irregular form, entire spore 12-15 /x in diameter, hyaline; 
paraphyses very slender, about 1-2 /x in diameter and scarcely 
enlarged at their apices. 
