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LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED BY THE U. S. S. ALBATROSS IN 

 1887-91 ALONG THE WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 



The Division of P.otany has from time to time reported upon eolleij- 

 tioiis made by the Albatross iu its various cruises ah)iiK the Anierieaii 

 eoast and among the isbiuds of the Pacific. The coHectious liere enu- 

 merated were made at various times, exteiidinj; as far bade as 1 887. Tin; 

 first rJi\d second parts are reports by Mr. J. N. Rose on collections made 

 by Prof. Ah'xander Agassiz^ on Oocos and the ('.alapagos islands; the 

 third part is a list of ferns from southern Patagoniii, wliich have been 

 determined by Prof. Daniel C. Eaton, of Yale College; the fonrtli part 

 is a report on the mosses from Fuegia and Patagonia, also by Prof. 

 Eaton, giving notes, syiumymy, and bibliography, besides the descrip- 

 tion of a new species; the fifth part is a list of J.iverworts from south- 

 ern Patagonia, by Mr. A. W. Evans, with descrii)tions and illustrations 

 of two new species; the sixth part (contains a short list (►f the lichens 

 from southern Patagonia by J. W. Kckfeldt, of Pliiladclpbia. 



All the material u])0U which these reports are based has been 

 mounted and preserved in the Xatioual llerbarium. 



1. Ij18T of PJ^ANTS FIIOM COCOS ISLAND. 



By J. N. KosK. 



The few plants here enumerated were gotten by Mr. Ah^xander 

 Agassi/, iu 1801, who seems to have spent but a single day (February 



28) on this island. 



This island lies southwest of l^mama about 500 nules, iu latitude 5° 



35' and longitude 87o. 



Ipomoea pes-caprae S\\ ci't. 



Epidendrum sp. Tho.^c speciinoiis hiivo iicitlicr flower nor I'niit. 



Paspalum vaginatum Kwiirtz. 



Polypodmm sp. 'Vhn-v. dittcrent fspofics were, ol)t;iiii<5(l. 



Nephrodium pectinatum Prcsl. I liave not seen ,speciinoiiH of this specuc^s, nn.l it 

 is (loiilitfiillv refcnt'fl lu're. 



Meteorum patens^ \>ozy and Molkeiilxx^r. "Tliis seems to bo M. paios of Do/.y 

 unit Molkciil)oer. jud-iug by their fiKnire; but it is iwt tlio sanies as th(^ Willtes 

 expoditioi. specimen nor C. Wri,!>lit'H from Cuba. Tlles(^ bav,^ a short<T, roinide(;. 

 and flatter leaf. M. anrcum, from Java, is a ,i?oo<l deal like the Coeos Island 

 specimen."— D. C. E. ^ 



'A fnll account of Tvof. A<r:\ssiz'H cruise is to be found in the Bulletin of Com- 

 parative Zoology of llaivard College, Vol. xxiii, No. 1. 

 2 Determined by Daniel C. Eaton. 



