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ndros, Bahamas, thus fulfilling the prophecies in the pe cas 
quotations. This discovery, however, was not e known 
ae ahs years later when O. F. Cook* made Ae specimens 
pe material of a supposed new genus and species, Cyclos- 
pie ape ropi. 
the New York Botanical Garden took up the botanical 
evident 
be most interestingly referred to by fe from the printed 
records of exploration: 
Baham be Git Inagua—‘ Captain Mitchell had been referr- 
ing to a pee which the natives called ‘mountain-cabbage,’ 
Hi : 
: grows abundai d 
ee the scrub, and fru here when nes or oe et high.” 
7 next stopping place was Camfield 
eae: tall plant, about event poe in height of Pseudophoenix 
Sargentii was also observed.” 
ahamas—-Whale Cay—‘'The exploration of Whale Cay 
occupied us on January 29; it has deeper and more abundant 
leaving the palms, at least temporarily, to shade the voun g 
-plants. ’’§ 
*Orator Fuller Cook was born at Clyde, New York, May 28, 1867. He 
graduated at Syracuse University in 1890, and was an instructor there the 
New Y 
following year th seven years, as special agent of the } York 
State Colonization Society, ade m: visit: Liberia; since 1898 
first as agent a er as botanist for tropical agriculture and bion of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, has repeatedly visited 
Ever since 1898 ist 
ant curator and custodian in the United Sta set ional Museum. 
I 
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biologic problems as well as studies on economic plants of ae region: 
John Hendley Barnhart. 
f Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 12: 1902 
} George V. Nash, Journal of the New York Boal Garden 6: 9, I0. 
§N. L. Britton, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 6: 80. 1905. 
