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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 Phaeno- 

 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 Grisebaehs two papers, 

 " Plantae Wrightianae 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 wei*e published in 1860 by Professor 

 Eaton, in his " Filices Wrightianae et Fendlerianae," a paper 

 in the eighth volume of the " Memoirs of the American Acad- 



