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The species has also been collected on E. mollis at Mayagiiez, 
by A. A. Heller, Feb. 9, 1900, II & III, 4569, at Bayamon, by 
E. W. D. Holway, Jan., 1911, and at Rio Piedras, by Johnston 
& Seaver, Dec., 1913, II, 1108. It was a portion of the Heller 
collection that is the basis of the entry in N. Am. Flora, vol. 7, 
p. 90, under Elephantopus scaber, a species not represented in the 
American flora, but belonging to the Eastern Hemisphere, 
although both North and South American collections have been 
reported under that name. 
Material has also been examined on E. mollis from Cuba and 
Jamaica, and on E. angustifolius Sw. from St. Vincent. 
2. CoLEOSPORiUM Ipomoeae (Schw.) Burr. Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. 
Hist. 2 : 217. 1885. 
On Convolvulaceae : 
Ipomoea Batatis Lam., Preston’s ranch near Naguabo, 
Dec. 31, II, 6668. 
Ipomoea Nil Roth, Guayanilla, Nov. 13, II, 3898. 
Jacquemontia tamnifolia (L.) Griseb., Rio Piedras, Nov. 
10, II, 5725. 
Material has also been examined on Ipomoea littoralis Blume, 
from San Juan, Jan., 1911, II, E. W. D. Holway, on I. stolonifer 
(Cyrill) Poir., from Vieques Island, Jan., 1914, II, J. A. Shafer 
2406, on Quamoclit coccinea (L.) Moench, Vieques Island, Jan., 
1914, II, J. A. Shafer. 
Collections have been seen on 7. Nil and Q. coccinea, from 
St. -Croix, and on /. tamnifolia, from Cuba. 
3. CoLEOSPORiuM Plumierae Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 18 : 
178. 1902. 
On Apocynaceae: 
Plumiera Krugii Urban, Maricao, Jan. 10, II, 290, Oct. 
20, 1912, II, 28c, Monte Alegrillo, Nov. 14, II, 4525. 
Plumiera obtusa L., Mona Island, Dec. 20, 21, II, 6101. 
The two hosts have not before been reported for North 
America. A specimen on P. obtusa has been received from Mel. 
T. Cook, collected at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, June, 1906. 
