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is also conspicuous at this season by its golden -coloured 

 flowers, throwing its long pliant arms for support over every 

 shrub. In a waste cane-piece, below Pallmer's Hut, we met 

 with a rather rare species of Pennywort, [Hydrocotyle erecta.) 

 The Samyda glabrata is very common, filling the air at this 

 season with the perfume of its short-lived flowers. 



Journeying on, we crossed the Bog Walk River, which, 

 passing out of the Vale through a ravine, assumes, near 

 Spanish Town, the name of Rio Cobre. Even here, in body 

 of water, it far exceeds the greater number of our Jamaica 

 streams. It takes its orio;in in the mountains of Clarendon, 

 passes through the Vale of Linda in St. Johns, till it reaches 

 Swansea Estate, where it sinks, to re-appear, after a subter- 

 ranean course of two or three miles, at River-Head Estate, 

 in St. Thomas in the Vale. Few tropical rivers abound more 

 in fish. On its margins we observed that solitary, yet grace- 

 ful bird, the Egret, [Ardea Egretta.) 



At the works of Byebrooke Estate, the Musk Ochra, [Hibis- 

 cus Abelmoschus,) was remarked, growing wild. Passing on, we 

 reached the Savannah where the church stands. The land 

 here is marshy: the prevailing grass is the Wire-Grass, {Pa- 

 nicum strictum,) disliked by the cattle. Scarcely any shrub 

 is to be seen but the Cocoa Plum, {Chrysohalaniis Icaco,) and 

 the Coccoloba diversifolia. An occasional individual of the 

 Mucca-Palm [Cocos fusiformis) might be observed, towering 

 above its humbler neighbours. On the road-side, we gathered 

 specimens of those rather rare plants, Buclinera elongata, 

 Hedysarum diphyllum, Habenaria brachyceratites, Riedleria 

 serrata, and a species of Melastoma, of which we could find 

 no description in our systematic works. That pest of the 

 pastures, the Jamaica Marygold, [Silphimn trilobatum,) is also 

 present here. In many parts of the Island, especially in the 

 wet districts, this plant is so luxuriant as to take possession 

 of whole pastures, being what is considered a weed in the 

 eye of the pen-keeper. 



In the Vale itself, as in all spots which have been long in 

 cultivation, there are few objects to engage the notice of 

 the Naturalist, whose richest banquets are spread in the remote 



