NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 4I 



At the same time, Doctor Rose's party visited St. Thomas, St. Croix, 

 St. Kitts, Antigua, and Santo Domingo. Knowing that the Museum 

 greatly needed duplicates for exchange purposes, general collecting 

 was done whenever possihle. Dr. Rose's collection consisted of more 

 than 1,200 species and about 7,000 specimens. Of these, one set has 

 l)een mounted for the Museum and has become a part of the study 

 series of the herbarium. A second set was sent to the New York 

 Botanical Garden, while other sets have been sent to the Bureau of 

 Science at Manila, and to the Royal Botanical Garden and Mu- 

 seum at Berlin, for use by Dr. T. Urban in the preparation of his 

 Flora of Santo Domingo. 



\Mnle especial attention was given to collecting the Cactus flora, a 

 large general botanical collection was made. In this there are some 

 new species, one in particular being a very remarkable Annona from 

 the desert plain at Azua, Santo Domingo. 



In addition to the herbarium material, 12 boxes and crates of living 

 plants, chiefly Cacti, were sent from the West Indies by Doctor Rose, 

 and two boxes of living plants were sent to Lady Katharine A. 

 Hanbury's garden at La Mortola, Italy, in exchange for specimens 

 and courtesies shown to Doctor Rose when in Europe in 1912. 



Many packages of seeds, bulbs, cuttings, etc., were obtained for 

 exchange purposes of the Museum or for study by the various work- 

 ers in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



PLANTS FROM SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 

 In September and October, Doctor Rose, accompanied by Wm. R. 

 Fitch, made extensive botanical collections in southeastern Colorado, 

 New Mexico, and western and southern Texas. While the trip was 

 made primarily for the purpose of collecting and studying the Cacti 

 of this region, many other flowering plants were obtained, a full set 

 of which has been mounted and placed in the National Herbarium. 



THE FLORA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 



During the latter part of August and early September, 1913, Mr. 

 Paul C. Standley, of the Division of Plants, U. S. National Museum. 

 and Mr. H. C. Bollman, of the Smithsonian Institution, spent four 

 weeks camping in the mountains of western North Carolina, near 

 iMontreat. Buncombe County. Although undertaken primarily as 

 a vacation trip, advantage was taken of the opportunity for study of 

 the flora of this most interesting region. Over seven hundred speci- 



