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hospitable Don Simon de Cardenas, thence visiting the Sienaga 
de Zapata, a great marshy tract toward the south coast. In 
the early summer he transferred his indefatigable operations 
to the Vuelt-abajo, as it is called, or that part of Cuba 
westward of Habana, making his home at Balestena, a cattle- 
farm at the southern base of the mountains opposite Bahia 
Honda, where he was long most hospitably entertained by Don 
Jose Blain and Don F. A. Sauvalle. From thence he pushed 
his explorations nearly to the southwestern extremity of the 
island at Cape San Antonio. In the summer of 1864 he came 
home with his large collections, remaining there and at Cam- 
bridge for about a year. 
In the autumn of 1865 he went again and for the last time 
to Cuba, again traversed the Vuelt-abajo in various directions, 
proceeded by steamer to Trinidad, and botanized in the moun- 
tains behind that town ; thence by way of Santiago he revisited 
the scenes of his earlier explorations and the surviving friends 
who had efficiently promoted them. The oldest and best of 
them, the elder Lescaille, was now dead. In the month of 
July, 1867, our persevering explorer came home. 
'Mr. Wright’s Cuban botanical collections, from time to 
time distributed into sets, with numbers, were acquired by sev- 
eral of the principal herbaria, the fullest sets of the Phzeno- 
gamous and vascular Cryptogamous plants, by the herbarium 
of Cambridge, and by the late Professor Grisebach of Gottin- 
gen. Professor Grisebach was in these years engaged with 
his “ Flora of the British West Indies”’; so that he gladly 
undertook the determination of the plants of Cuba. They 
were accordingly mainly published in Grisebach’s two papers, 
“ Plante Wrightiane e Cuba Orientali,”’ in the “ Memoirs 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” 1860 and 
1862, and in his “Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium exhibens 
collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex Insula Cuba 
missas,” an 8vo volume, published in Leipsic in 1866. The 
latter work enumerates the Ferns and their allies, but those 
for the earlier part were published in 1860 by Professor 
Eaton, in his “ Filices Wrightiane et Fendlerianz,” a paper 
in the eighth volume of the ‘“‘ Memoirs of the American Acad- 
