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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 possible. Dr. Rose’s collection consisted of more 
than 1,200 species and about 7,000 specimens. Qf these, one set has 
been 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. I. Urban in the preparation of his 
Flora of Santo Domingo. 
While 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 \luseum 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 Wim. R. 
itch, made extensive botanical collections in southeastern Colorado, 
New \lexico, 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 
\Montreat, 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- 
