The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VII MARCH, 1904 No. 3 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— XVI.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Friday, December 8. — The Solace arrived yesterday, bringing us four 

 new marine officers and mail from San Francisco and Honolulu. Re- 

 ceived a polite letter from Mr. David Haughs of the Hawaiian Botanical 

 Garden in reply to a request for some plants of Bignonia venusta and two 

 species of Bougainvillea which are cultivated there. One of the latter 

 has beautiful bracts of a brick red or flame color ; the other is the com- 

 mon magenta B. spectabilis. Captain Dunlap, of the Solace, brought me 

 six fine navel orange trees from the Cox Seed Company, of San Fran- 

 cisco (cost $8.50, including packing). On the receipted bill was written: 

 The box should be placed on deck in as cool a place as possible and 

 watered once a week. On arrival at Guam, plant out immediately." 



Captain Russell, of the marine corps, has gone home sick and 

 Captain Ingate is suffering from the effects of a painful surgical 

 operation — we fear blood poisoning. Typhoid fever is now epidemic — 

 we have lost three of our men and another is dying. Dr. Grunwell, 

 the junior medical officer of the Yosemite, lives at Agafia and attends 

 to natives and enlisted men alike. By his untiring devotion to his duty, 

 his gentleness and kindness, he has done more than any one else to win 

 for us the love of the natives. 



•Continued from the February issue. Begun in September, 1902. 



