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La Libertad, Guayas^'' 



This place was more of a modern settlement than most of those visited 

 by the Hancock Expeditions, which generally avoided such places and 

 stopped only at such cities as Panama and Guayaquil because of the neces- 

 sity for local arrangements. La Libertad is the port for Santa Elena, This 

 is somewhat of a resort town, though very small and simple. The shore 

 vegetation of algae was quite fair; some time was spent collecting on the 

 near beach and some on the fine rocky shore of the far side of the point 

 at Salinas, where the growth was much richer. The beach chiefly yielded 

 plants washed ashore, most notably Gracilarias and Padina. From the 

 rocky shore several things appeared to be undescribed, altogether at least 

 six, of which a Monostrojna and a Sargassum seem to be especially note- 

 worthy. 



Guayaquil's 



In 1934 the Hancock Expedition first made the trip up the Rio Guayas 

 to Guayaquil, For the botanist this was a memorable experience, his first 

 trip up any part of a large tropical river. The vegetation along the shore 

 as viewed from the boat was most attractive, and particularly strange 

 were the often immense islands of vegetation floating down the stream 

 and reversing with the turn of the tide. Little practical botanizing could 

 be done, but Salvinia, a very interesting little water fern, was dipped from 

 the river. The city itself received the full attention of all members of the 

 party for the four days of the visit, and no botanical excursions were taken 

 into the country. 



Archipielago de Colon 



The annotated list of species collected on the Hancock Expeditions 

 from the Galapagos Islands (Archipielago de Colon) includes those 

 species which Dr. W. L. Schmitt has collected, and those from the Alba- 

 tross and Hassler Expeditions, so far as they have come into the hands of 

 the writer, together with his own from the Hancock Expedition of 1934. 

 Further, the plants reported upon by Farlow (1902) have been re- 

 examined and references to most of them included. Howell's collections 

 have been examined; but, since Setchell's (Setchell 1937b, Setchell and 

 Gardner 1937) determinations of these are recent and authoritative, it 

 has seldom been necessary to discuss them. The only important collection 

 not available to the writer, and of which he is aware, is that reported by 



27 Ibid., p. 169, pi. 91, fig. 193. 



28 Ibid., p, 170, pi. 92, fig. 195. 



