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following afternoon, to Havana. ‘The remainder of that week, 
from the 19th to the 23d, was spent at Mariel, on the mies 
coast of the province of Pinar del Rio. Mariel is reached from 
Havana by trolley to Guanajay, and thence by coach about 
seven miles to the coast. ‘The new plants secured along the coast 
Fic, 5. 
An agave in fruit. North shore of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 
east of the entrance to the harbor of Mariel. 
of the harbor and Gulf of Mexico, near Mariel, were interesting 
and numerous, including the cactus, Harrisia erlophora, the 
beach palm (Thrinax parviflora) in fruit, a species of the 
