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in species which have been variously limited by different 

 authors working at a portion only of them. Many supposed 

 anomalies in distribution disappear when the whole material 

 is handled by one person. 



In all my references and comparisons I have purposely 

 omitted the cellular cryptogams ; but, for the benefit of those 

 persons interested, I may add here that since 1892 the work 

 under the Committee of the British Association has been 

 almost entirely on these lower organisms; and already several 

 important contributions to the literature have been published, 

 and others are in course of preparation. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



(1) Report of the Committee . . . appointed for the purpose of 



reporting on the present state of our knowledge of the 

 Zoology and Botany of the West Indian Islands, and taking 

 steps to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna and 

 Flora. Read at the Bath Meeting of the British Association, 

 1888. Botany, by W. B. Hemsley ; Zoology, by D. Sharp. 



(2) G. S. JENMAN. In Bulletin of the Botanical Department of 



Jamaica, beginning in No. 18, Aug., 1890. 



(3) J. G. Baker. On the Vascular Cryptogams of the Island of 



Grenada, in the Annals of Botany, vi., pp. 95-102, 1892. 



(4) British Association Committee's Report, 1891. 



(5) Flora of St. Vincent and Adjacent Islets. Kew Bitlletin of 



Miscellaneous Information, pp. 231-296, 1893. 



(6) H. F. A. EGGERS. The Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin 



Islands. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 

 No. 13, p. 133, 1879. - 



(7) A. Gri.SEBACH. Gesammelte Abhandlungen, p. 264. 



(8) H. EGGERS. Supplement til St. Croix's og. Jomfruoernes 



Flora, in Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Nat. Foren., i. 

 Kjobenhavn, pp. n-2.1, 1889. 



(9) Hooker's /cones Plantarum, xv., t. 1401. 



(10) A. Stahl. Estudios sobre la Flora de Puerto Rico, 1883- 1888. 



(11) Don Domingo Bello Y Espinosa. Apuntes para la Flora 



de Puerto Rico, in Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia 

 Natural, x., pp. 231-304, lam. 4 y 5, xii, pp. 103-130, lam. 

 1, 1883. The descriptions repeated in Engler's Jahrbiicher, 

 vi., Literaturber., pp. 58-65, 1885. 



(12) H. EGGERS. Reise in das Innere von St. Domingo, in Peter- 



mann's Mittheiluugen, pp. 35-41, t. 3, 1888. 



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