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mann’s Mittheilungen, in 1888.* More recently ex- 
tensive collections have been made by the Reverend 
Father Fuertes in the vicinity of Barahona, on the south 
coast, near the Haitian frontier, and by Baron von Tuerck- 
heim in the vicinity of the interior village of Constanza =, 
and on its neighboring mountains, some of which (Pico 
del Valle and Monte Cucurucho) are as high as 2,500 
meters. Among the interesting features of the interior 
are forests of pines and walnut and on the slopes of the 
mountains beautiful tree ferns. The Becks | 
have yielded many endemic species. B. 
discovered the type of the genus Fuchsia nF. imphylla), Ge 
-and among the tree ferns collected by him on Monte 
Isabel de la Torre was one recently described by Wm. R 
Maxon as Cyathea crassa. An interesting ent i. a 
climbing fern growing near Barahona is Lygodium lies oe 
_ stachyum. The collections of both Baron von Tuerck- 
_ heim and Padre Fuertes are well, represented, in the 
United States National Herbarium. 
_ My second visit to the island was in the umme 
1898, this time landing at Mole St. Nicolas, at the we 
BY On th occasion we 
