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anyled stems, a large Echinocactus or l)arrel cactus, with stout hooked 

 spines, and one or more Cephalocereus species, their tall, simple or 

 Itranched. columnar stems covered at the tip with bunches of long- 

 white hair. 



In all, about 4.300 numbers of plants, represented by approxi- 

 mately 13,000 specimens, were collected in the course of the season's 



Fig. 107. — A Furcraea in IIowlt, .Sii^iuitcpeque, 

 Honduras. 



work. The collections are now l)eing studied at the Field Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The field work in Honduras was facilitated in every possible manner 

 by the officials of the Tela Railroad Company, to whom thanks are 

 due for the success of the expedition. Special acknowledgments are 

 made to Wilson Popenoe, who furnished at Lancetilla such admirable 



