110 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
2. COLEOSPORIUM VERNONIAE Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 3: 57. 
ON CARDUACEAE: 
Lachnorhiza piloselloides A. Rich., San Pedro, Isle of Pines, 
Feb. 12-March 22, 1916, II, Britton & Wilson 14713. 
The first record of the species for the West Indies. The host is 
also new for the species. Northward aecia occur on pine leaves. 
3. CoLEosPORIUM IPOMOEAE (Schw.) Burr. Bull. Ill. Lab. Nat. 
Hist. 2:217. 1885. 
ON CONVOLVULACEAE: 
Ipomoea cathartica Poir. (I. acuminata R. & S., Pharbitis 
cathartica Choisy), Rincón (Prov. Habana), Sept. 26, 
I9IS, Johnston 156. 
Ipomoea mutabilis Lindl. (I. Learii Meissn. not Paxton) 
Vedado (Prov. Habana), Dec. 6, 1916, Johnston 926; 
Consolación del Sur (Prov. Pinar del Rio), March, 1917, 
II, Horne. 
Ipomoea stolonifera (Cyrill.) Poir., Siguanea, Isle of Pines, 
Feb. 26, 1916, II, Britton, Britton & Wilson 14936. 
Also found in the phanerogamic herbarium at the N. Y. Bot. 
Garden on Jacquemontia tamnifolia (L.) Griseb., collected by 
Eugenio Cuesta 329, at Pinar del Rio, December, 1911. 
The species is heteroecious, with aecia on leaves of pines, but 
in tropical regions is probably maintained by the repeating uredin- 
iospores. In the West Indies it is also known from Porto Rico 
and St. Croix, but is more common on the continents to the north 
and south. 
4. COLEOSPORIUM PLUMIERAE Pat. Bull. Soc. Мус. Fr. 18: 178. 
1902. 
ON APOCYNACEAE: 
Plumiera emarginata Griseb., Limones Cienfuegos (Prov. 
Santa Clara), Nov. 4, 1915, II, Johnston 216; Marianao 
(Prov. Habana), Oct. 31, 1915, II, Johnston 236, Feb. 6, 
1916, Johnston 441; Caleta Cocodrilos, Isle of Pines, 
March 8, 1916, II, Britton, Wilson & León 15300. 
Plumiera obtusa L., Santiago de las Vegas, June 21, 1906, 
Cook. 
Plumiera rubra L., Santiago de las Vegas, Sept. 4, 1904, 
