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It seems to be just the same as the Virginia creeper of the States, 
of the route, as seven Cuban leagues, or about 1814 miles 
GEORGE CONRAD BUCHER 
NOTES ON PLANTS COLLECTED BY MR. BUCHER 
ON PICO TURQUINO, CUBA 
The determinations of the ferns are by Mr. William R. Maxon 
of the United States National Museum; those of the mosses by 
Mrs. Britton and Mr. R. 5S. Williams. All specimens have been 
placed in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden 
Found by Mr. Bucher on the highest peak of the TT urauine: 
2. Trichomanes scandens L. A filmy fern on Loma Cardero. 
3. Vittaria filifolia Feé. A narrow-leaved epiphytic fern on 
4. A young epiphytic orchid, Loma Cardero. 
5. A fragment of a tree-fern, genus Cyathea. Loma Cardero. 
6. A low aromatic shrub of the Mint ee collected without 
flowers on the slope of the first peak, about 6500 ft. 
altitude. 
7. Peperomia une (Sw.) A. Dietr. Collected in moss at about 
altitude on the - of the first peak. A plant 
of West ee mountain 
