288 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 14, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 227. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, Jamaica, and 

 from Guatemala to Peru and Brazil. 



753. Pectis Swartziana Lessing. 



Pedis Swartziana Lessing, Linnaea.VI, 1831, p. 711, excluding synonym Swartz. 

 Pectis Bonplandiana DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegeta- 



bilis, V, 1836, p. 99, in part. 

 Pectis pratensis C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, 1870, no. 1301, p. 81. 

 Pectis linifolia O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, III, 1898, p. 166, not 



Linnaeus. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 15, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 413. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, Jamaica, and 

 from Mexico to Bolivia. 



754. Neurolaena lobata (Linn?eus) R. Brown. 



Conyza lobata Linn^us, Species Plantarum, Ed. I, 1753, p. 862. 

 Neurolana lobata R. Brown, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, XII, 

 1817, p. 120. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 403. 

 General Distribution: Widely distributed in the West Indies and 

 from Mexico to Guiana and Ecuador. 



755. Erechtites hieracifolia (Linnaeus) Rafinesque. Fire-weed. 



Senecio hieracifolius Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, 1753, p. 866. 

 Erechtites hieracifolia Rafinesque, Florula Ludoviciana, ex DeCandolle, Pro- 

 dromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, VI, 1837, p. 294. 



In an old field near Pedernales Point, February 16, 1899, C. F. 

 MiUspaugh, No. 141 8; on white sand in the pine-barrens, Los Indios, 

 May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 322. General Distribution: In 

 open woods, clearings, and burned-over places from Newfoundland 

 and northwestern Canada south to Argentina. 



756. Emilia sonchifolia (Linnaeus) P. DeCandolle. 



Cacalia sonchifolia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, I753. P- 835- 

 Senecio sonchifolius MoENCH, Supplementum ad Methodum, etc., 1802, p. 231. 

 Emilia sonchifolia P. DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Regni Vegetabilis, VI, 



1837, p. 302. 



A weed in cultivated soil, Keenan's estate, Nueva Gerona, May 9, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. I^S- General Distribution: Tropics of 

 l)Oth hemispheres; north in America as far as the Bahamas. 



