252 
IMycologia 
485^; Alegrillo, Nov. 14, 4479; Lares, Nov. 22, 48^9; 
San Sebastian, Nov. 22, 5200; Guayama, Dec. 4, 5418 ; 
Monte de Oro near Cayey, Dec. 3, 5675; Jajome Alto, 
Dec. 3, 5682; Utuado, Nov. 8, 3781; Guayanilla, Nov. 
13. 59 ^^- 
Other Porto Rican collections of this species are as follows : 
On Emilia sonchifoUa, Ponce, Jan., 1912, J. R. Johnston 202, 
Rio Piedras, June, 1912, and Dec., 1913, J. R. Johnston 456, 
1190, Espinosa, Nov., 1914, J. A. Stevenson 2^42; on Synedrella 
nodi flora, Rio Piedras, June, 1912, J. R. Johnston, 448, Trujillo 
Alto, Aug., 1913, J. R. Johnston 1041; and on Elentheranthera 
rnderalis, Buena Vista, Jan., 1915, J. A. Stevenson 2^09. 
The species is common throughout the West Indies, as the 
following collections indicate: on E. rnderalis, eastern Cuba, 
1856-7, Charles Wright (type of Pttccinia solida B. & C.), Isle of 
Pines, Cuba, May, 1904, A. H. Curtis, and on phanerogamic 
specimens in the herbarium of the N. Y. Bot. Garden from 
Jamaica, June, 1897, A. Fredholm 3060, from St. Domingo, 
June, 1910, Pater Fuertes, 174, from Grenada, March, 1905, W. 
E. Broadway, and from Guadeloupe, 1893, Pere Duss 3264; on 
E. sonchifoUa, Jamaica, Jan., 1892, Lloyd 1082, Oct.-Nov., 1902, 
F. S. Earle 32, March, 1903, and Sept., 1906, L. M. Underwood 
^737^ 3^6^, 335^> Feb., 1915, E. W. D. Holway 221, Antigua, 
Feb. 13, Rose, Fitch & Russell 3315, Martinique, Aug., 1913, F. 
L. Stevens 2973, and on a phanerogamic specimen in N. Y. Bot. 
Garden from Grenada, 1904, W. E. Broadway ; on 5". nodiflora, 
Cuba, Aug., 1910, Britton, Earle & Gager 6272, Jamaica, Dec., 
1890, A. S. Hitchcock, April, 1903, L. M. Underwood, Feb., 1915, 
E. W. D. Holway 218, Barbados, Oct., 1889, G. von Lagerheim 
(Sydow, Ured. 376), and on a phanerogamic specimen from 
Tortola, April-May, 1913, W. C. Fishlock 22. 
The species has also been collected on Tridax procumlens L. 
in Cuba, Nov., 1904, Baker & O’Donovan 4039, and on Neiiro- 
laena lohata (L.) R. Br. in Cuba, March, 1903, E. W. D. Holway. 
The identification of the host for the type material of Puccinia 
solida B. & C. was made by Dr. B. L. Robinson of th; Gray 
Herbarium in 1910, who found it to be Elentheranthera rnderalis. 
