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Otto Kuntze. "Urn die Erde." Pp.514. Leipzig. 1881. 



Dr. Kuntze visited St. Thomas in 1874, at the beginning of his extensive 

 travels. 

 Otto Kuntze. "Revisio Generum Plantarum" i: 2: pp. 1009. Leipzig. 1891. 

 The author records specimens collected by him on St. Thomas in 1874. 

 F. Borgesen and Ove Paulsen. "Om Vegetationen paa de Dansk-Vestindiske 0er." 

 Botan. Tidsskr. K30benhavn, 22: 1-114, /.1-4J. 1898. [Reprint pp. 114.] 

 Mr. Borgesen visited the islands in 1892, and again in 1895-6, on his second 

 trip accompanied by Mr. Paulsen. They made extensive collections, and 

 listed six Spermatophytes as additions to the known flora. The document is 

 mostly ecologic, and especially detailed as to the composition of the coastal 

 vegetation. It was translated into French by Mile. S. Eriksson and pub- 

 lished in 1900 (Rev. Gen. de Bot. 12: 99-107; 138-153; 224-245; 289-297; 

 344-354; 434-446; 489-510). [Reprint pp. 108.] 

 C, F, Millspaugh. "Plantae Utowanae." Field Col. Mus. Bot. 2: i-iio; II3-I35- 

 pi. 25. 1900. 



During the cruise of the yacht Utowana, December, 1898, to March, 1899, 

 Dr. Millspaugh, botanist of the expedition, visited St. Thomas on January 

 17 and 18, 1899, and collected about 200 species, which are enumerated. 

 C. F. Millspaugh. "Flora of the Island of St. Croix." Field Col. Mus. Bot. i: 

 441-546. Map. 1902. 



Annotated list of 1,029 species, based especially upon the large collections 

 made in 1895, 1896 and 1897 by A. E. Ricksecker and Mrs. J. J. Ricksecker, 

 with records taken from Baron Eggers Flora. Mr. Ricksecker published a 

 list of the species collected by him, pp. 4, not dated [1896]. Dr. Millspaugh 

 has a chapter upon the botanical history of St. Croix. 

 F. Borgesen. "Notes on the Shore Vegetation of the Danish West Indian Islands." 

 Bot. Tidsskr. 29: 201-259. f.i-140; pi. 3-6. 1909. 



Mr. Borgesen made a third trip to the islands during the winter of 1905- 

 1906, especially for algological studies. The paper is ecological, and supple- 

 mentary to his earlier publications. 

 E. G. Britton. "Mosses of the Danish West Indies and Virgin Islands." Bull. 

 Torn Club 42: 1-8. 1915. 



Mrs. Britton lists, with annotations, 28 species of Mosses, including 3 de- 

 scribed as new; four of the plants enumerated were found only on Tortola. 

 H. G. Brock, P. S. Smith, W. A. Tucker. "The Danish West Indies, their Resources 

 and Commercial Importance." 1917. 



The United States Department of Commerce has recently published as 

 Special Agents Series 129 (pp. 68, figs. 1-8), a valuable document in which 

 the vegetable products of commercial value are discussed. 



There are a very large number of records of plants from the islands in 

 taxonomic monographs and lists of species by many authors. 



As a literary curiosity record may be made of a manuscript list of the plants 

 of St. Thomas, undated, arranged upon the Linnaean system of classification, 

 preserved in the library of the New York Botanical Garden, presented some 

 years ago by the late Dr. T. F. Allen. 



General comments upon the vegetation are to be found in several books 

 of travel. 



The earlier collections of botanical specimens are practically all 

 to be found only in the herbaria of the Old World. Perhaps the oldest 



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