138 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
by the Sydows (1.с.), was made in Cuba by Ramon de la Sagra. 
No date or locality is given. 
Telia were found associated with uredinia on a phanerogamic 
specimen of the same host, at the New York Botanical Garden, 
collected between Portland Point and Rocky Point, Jamaica, 
March 5, 1908, N. L. Britton 1917. А few teliospores were found 
on another similar phanerogamic specimen in the same herbarium, 
collected in St. Croix, Feb. 6, 1896, Alfred E. Ricksecker 253. 
From these two collections the following characters for the telia 
have been secured. 
Telia amphigenous, scattered, linear or oblong, 0.2-2 mm. long, 
early naked, opening by a longitudinal slit of the epidermis, com- 
pact, blackish-brown, ruptured epidermis noticeable; teliospores 
broadly ellipsoid, 23-26 by 31-35, rounded at both ends, only 
slightly constricted at septum; wall chestnut-brown, 3-4 и thick, 
somewhat thicker above, 5-7 и, with a broad, low, concolorous 
umbo, smooth; pedicel hyaline, 9 u broad, not tapering, up to 85 и 
long, the wall thin, ти 
The species is only known from the three collections cited, but 
is doubtless widespread, although it may not be abundant, 
throughout the West Indies, as the host is a wayside weed. 
62. Puccinia RHaMNri (Pers) Wettst. Verhl. Zool.-Bot. Ges. 
Wien 35: 545. 1886. 
Puccinia coronata Corda, Icones 1: 6. 1837. 
ON POACEAE: 
Avena sativa L., Santiago de las Vegas, March 14, 1917, П, 
ПІ, Johnston 937. 
This is the only record of the oat rust for the West Indies. 
The species is represented in Mexico by two collections on Bromus 
from the federal district made by E. W. D. Holway, and is not 
reported from Central America. 
63. PUCCINIA POCULIFORMIS (Jacq. Wettst. Verhl. Zool.-Bot. 
Ges. Wien 35: 544. 1886. 
Puccinia graminis Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1:119. 1794. 
ON POACEAE: 
Triticum vulgare Vill. (T. sativum Lam.), without locality 
or date (Ramon de la Sagra?). 
The only record of the black stem-rust of wheat for any of the 
West Indian islands is in the Flora Cubana (Montagne, РІ. Cell. 
