104 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
history of Cuba, himself writing the general introduction and the 
part on climate and agriculture. In 1835 he went to Paris, taking 
with him his numerous collections. The cryptogams were placed 
in the hands of M. Montagne, and were described in the ninth 
volume of the folio work. The specimens are now in the Museum 
of Natural History at Paris. Only three collections of rusts are 
accredited to Sagra. Two of these, Prospodium plagiopus (Puc- 
cinia plagiopus), and Puccinia poculiformis (P. graminis) are 
cited in the volume by Montagne, and the third, P. Anthephorae, 
is said to have been collected by him. Sagra did not return to 
Cuba, ahd in 1871 died in Switzerland. 
Mr. Charles Wright* spent nearly ten years in Cuba, between 
November, 1856, and July, 1867, collecting plants, chiefly phanero- 
gams. The first expedition was confined to the province of Oriente 
and extended from Nov. 25, 1856, to about Sept. I, 1857. Most 
of his fifteen numbers of rusts known to the authors were obtained 
during this period. Of the later ones only one has been seen by 
the authors, that on Limnanthemum, which was obtained in the 
province of Pinar del Rio in December, 1858, and is a form which 
has not been collected by any one else in America. The specimens 
bear little data, the date of collecting being confined to the years 
covering the expedition, rarely to the exact year, and the locality 
to " Cuba," or “іп Cuba orientale," if any atall. The rusts form 
parts of the sets of fungi to be found in the Kew herbarium in 
London, and in the Herb. Curtis and also the Herb. Gray at 
Harvard University. The following is a list of the numbers known 
to the writers.T 
275. “Puccinia Asteris Schw. on some unknown leaf," in 
Fungi Cubenses. The species is very rare in the tropics, and must 
be considered a doubtful determination for Cuba. Specimen has 
not been seen. 
276. Puccinia solida B. & C. on "leaves of Compositae," in 
Fungi Cubenses, — P. Synedrellae P. Henn., on Eleutheranthera 
ruderalis. Туре in Kew has been examined. See no. 109. 
*For brief biographical account, by Asa Gray, see Am. Jour. Sci. III. ar: 
12-17. 1886; and for an account of Wright's itinerary in Cuba, by L. M. Under- 
wood, see Bull. Torrey Club 32: 291-300. тоо 
T Most of the numbers are cited in the Fungi Cubenses, by M. J. Berkeley and 
M. A. Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. то: 280—391. 1869. 
