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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



of equality with the distribution number. The data upon the Grise- 

 bach labels are meager, usually consisting of the number and year, 

 together with an abbreviation for eastern or western Cuba. The 

 distribution numbers of the grasses reported upon by Grisebach are 

 all below 3500. Wright, after his return from Cuba, studied his col- 

 lections at the Gray Herbarium and published his results in a series 

 of articles in conjunction with Doctor Sauvalle, of Cuba. a In the 



Anales de la Academia de Ciencias, Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, 

 Volumes V to IX, 1868 to 1872. This was reset and, an index being added, pub- 

 lished in 1873 as Flora Cubana. The introduction to the first installment of the 

 series (5: 196. 1868) is as follows: "Revisio Catalogi Grisebachiani vel index planta- 

 rum cubensium ad catalogumCl. Grisebachii anno 1866 editum attemperata, pluribus 

 Wrightianis novis speciebus aucta, valde quoque emendata, a el. C. Wright; omnia 

 pro Annalibus Regiae Academiae Scientiarum Havanensis digesta, nominibusque 

 adjectis cubensibus vulgo receptis a Francisco A. Sauvalle. Setiembre, 1868." 

 Each continuation is headed "Revisto Catalogi Grisebachiani vel Index Plantarum 

 Cubensium; a Francisco A. Sauvalle." The reprint has a title page as follows: 

 "Flora Cubana. | Enumeratio Nova Plantarum Cubensium | vel | Revisio Catalogi 

 Grisebachiani, Exhibens Descriptiones Generum Specierumque Nova- 



rum | Caroli Wright, (Cantabrigiae) et Francisci Sauvalle, | Synonymis | nomini- 

 busque vulgaribusCubensis adjectis. | Auctore | Francisco A. Sauvalle, | Academiae 

 Scientiarum Havanensis. | Havanae. | Imp. "La Antilla," de cacho-negrete, | Calle 

 de Cuba num. 51. | 1873. 



The Gramineae appeared in Vol. VIII, 1871. The article was entirely reset for the 

 reprint, but a comparison of this portion of the original with the reprint shows very 

 few errors. In the original the serial numbers of the Gramineae occur as follows: 



Numbers. 



2721 to 2727. 

 2728 to 2755. 

 2756 to 2764. 

 2765 to 2769. 



Page. 



157 

 158 

 200 

 201 



2770 to 2780 202 



2781 to 2791. 

 2792 to 2797. 



203 

 204 



Numbers. 



2798 to 2800 

 2801 to 2812 

 2813 to 2828 

 2829 to 2855 

 2856 to 2869 

 2870 to 2878 

 2879 to 2891 



Page. 



205 

 206 

 207 

 208 

 209 

 287 

 288 



