16 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. 2. 



ASTERIDIUMMONILIFORMEE.&E. Jour. Trinidad. Field Nat. Club. , 1894. 



On leaves of Tetrapteris Mexicana H. & A. from near San Miguel r 

 Cozumel (1484 part). 



DOTHIDIACE^:. 



PHYLLACHORA GRAMINIS (Pers. ) Fckl. Symb : 216. 



Spharia graminis Pers. On leaves of Panicum insulare (L.) Mey. 

 Along the bay shore at Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (on 368). 



USTILAGINACE^:. 



Sorosporium Borrichiae E. & E. sp. nov. Plate Hi. 



Glomerules globose 30-80 ;j. diam. composed of numerous small 

 (3 /*) globose, smooth, dark brown spores, nearly black in the mass. 



Filling the flower-heads and destroying the flowers of Borrichia 

 argentea deC. , from the east coast of the island of Cozumel (1586 part). 



Vermicularia atricha E. & E. sp. nov. Plate liii. 



Spots orbicular, rust-colored, 2-4 mm. diam., with a darker cen- 

 ter, perithecia amphigenous, innate minute (75-100 ,), perforated 

 above, bristles obsolete; sporules lunate, acute 3-4-nucleate, i5-2ox 3 ,</.. 



On Petiveria alliacea L. at Caguas, Porto Rico (204 part). 



UREDINACE^:. 



Uredo cupulata E. & E. sp. nov. Plate liv. 



Spots reddish-brown, irregular in shape, 3-5 mm. diam., with a 

 thickened raised margin, amphigenous. Sori amphigenous, crowded 

 on the spots, more abundant below, mostly elliptical, enclosed in a 

 thin membrane soon dehiscent above, giving the sori a cup-shaped 

 pezizoid appearance ; spores elliptical ovate 16-22 x 12-20 p. or globose 

 16 x 20 >j., pale yellow, with a rather thick tuberculo-echinulate epi- 

 spore, scantily paraphysate. 



Another form of the same, differing only in the more indistinct 

 poorly defined spots without any raised margin. 



LYCOPERDACE^E. 



GEASTER LIMBATUS Fr. Syst. Mycol. 3:15. Plate Iv, fig. 4. 



On ground under shrubs growing on hummock in a bog near 

 Paget's Landing, Bermuda (56). 



POLYPORACE^:. 



TRAMETES VENUSTUS Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1845:55. Plate Iv, fig. 3. 

 On dead wood on ground, moist woods center of the island of 

 Cozumel (1613). 



PORIA VINCTA Berk ? Fung. St. Dom. 26:5. 



A thick form, probably of this species, on under side of dead 

 limbs near Piste", Yucatan. 



