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The collections made comprised about two thousand specimens, 

 included under about six hundred and fifty field-numbers. In addi- 

 tion to those specimens collected by the writer, there are in the 

 Herbarium of the Carnegie Museum two hundred and ninety-eight 

 specimens collected in the Isle of Pines by Mr. A. H. Curliss in 1903 

 and 1904, these having been distributed from the New York Botanical 

 Garden a number of years ago as one of a number of sets into which 

 the Curtiss Collection was divided. There are also in the Carnegie 

 Museum a small number of specimens obtained in the Isle of Pines 

 in 1910 by Dr. Jared F. Shafer, of Pittsburgh, and a small collection 

 made by Mr. G. A. Link, Sr.. on the occasion of his sojourn in the 

 island in 1912-1913. The Curtiss Collection was made in the vicinity 

 of Nueva Gerona, that of Dr. Shafer mainly in the vicinity of Columbia 

 and Nueva Gerona, and that of Mr. Link in the vicinity of Nueva 

 Gerona and Los Indios. 



The most complete set of the specimens collected by the writer in 

 the Isle of Pines, the set which is now in the Herbarium of the Car- 

 negie Museum, together with a duplicate set now in the Herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden, was submitted during the summer 

 of 1910 to Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. The specimens were studied by Dr. Britton and Mr. Percy 

 Wilson, many of them being submitted to specialists both at the 

 New York Botanical Garden and elsewhere. The fungi were studied 

 by Professor D. R. Sumstine, of Pittsburgh. To all of these gentle- 

 men I take the present opportunity to extend my grateful acknowledg- 

 ment for their labors, which have facilitated my own. 



In the preparation of the present report it has been found necessary 

 to reexamine the specimens, because during the past few years great 

 progress has been made in the study of the flora of the West Indies. 

 Much of the credit for this progress belongs to the gentlemen con- 

 nected with the New York Botanical Garden, whose explorations and 

 collections in the West Indies have been extensive and thorough. 

 Dr. Ignatius Urban, of Berlin, assisted by various collaborators, has 

 published much upon the flora of the West Indies in the seven volumes 

 of his SymholcE AniillancB; and in the United States a number of 

 specialists have monographed the North American plants of certain 

 groups, including the West Indian species. An examination of the 

 specimens of the Curtiss Collection shows that quite a number of 

 them, according to the latest literature, belong to species other than 



