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men barely escaped being washed overboard while setting the 

 storm-staysail. 



We sighted the welcome light on St. George's at daybreak on 

 the 28th and reached Hamilton harbor at noon. Taking one of the 

 yacht's boats I visited a number of the islets in the bay (collecting 

 nos. 1-35), and on the 2gth and 3oth continued work on the hills and 

 in the boggy swales back of Paget's Landing (36-69). During the 

 morning hours of the 3ist an excursion was made to the famous 

 Walsingham district (70-7/5), and the afternoon until dusk was 

 utilized in a search of the fields and woodlands north of Hamilton 

 (116-139). 



We left the harbor at i o'clock on New Year's day and as 

 we reached the offing, set all sail and laid a course for San Juan, 

 Porto Rico, a distance of 840 miles, making that harbor on the morn- 

 ing of January 5th. 



January 6th was spent in botanizing over the lowland border- 

 ing the bay at Catano, opposite San Juan (140-193). January yth 

 a carriage was engaged and a trip taken along the military road 

 from Rio Pedras to Caguas, whence I returned to San Juan on the 

 evening of the 8th (194-248). The afternoon of the gth was spent 

 in the Catano region with Mr. E. E. Heller, who had just arrived 

 in Porto Rico to collect for the New York Botanical Garden (249- 

 259). On the loth, again in company with Mr. Heller, the sand- 

 dune coast region at Santurce was visited (260-305), and on the nth 

 we worked the foothills near Bayamon (306-326, 338-358) collecting 

 at Catano (327-337) while awaiting the departure of the train for that 

 field. 



The shores of the bay of San Juan are quite distinct in their 

 flora from the seashore, the sandy beach failing to yield those 

 characteristic Antillean forms so predominant everywhere on the 

 true sea coast: Cakile maritima, Ernodea littoralis, Suriana mari- 

 tima, Tournefortia gnaphalodes, Sesuvium portulacastrum, and 

 Euphorbia buxifolia, all of which are plentiful just outside the 

 entrance. The flora of the bay shores consists principally of Wedelia 

 trilobata, Bidens leucantha, Coccoloba uvifera, and Ipomcea pes- 

 caprae. 



During our stay in this region heavy showers fell upon an 

 average of every three hours; but as they lasted only a few moments, 

 and the herbage dried almost as soon as the rain ceased, they inter- 

 fered little with collecting. 



We left the harbor on the i6th, and steaming eastward against 

 a heavy wind, spent the night making seventy odd miles to the bay 



