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to the Luquillo sey pete the forest rangers’ cabins at 
ata Yunque t 
mosses and hepatics; ei its ee is the highest in = me 
Rico and th 
Mr. Cane has recently constructed a stoned trail nearly to its 
summit as a part of some thirty miles of ee naa = 
Lu quillo Forest Reserve built under his dir and 
mountain and its vegetation are thus much more ene access- 
ible than they formerly were. 
. Robert B. Noyes, of Ponce, organized for us a visit t 
the mountain forests in the Cordillera Central, north of hae 
from Ponce other high ates in the Cordillera Central and 
studied the forest at Indiera Baja on the new road running 
alas from Yauco - also made collections in the valley of the 
‘o Negro on the road running north from Juana Diaz. Col- 
i oe were also nade near the southern coast on the very dry 
hills in the vicinity of Ponce and Guaya nilla, where Badier tera ee 
aea, a shrub of the gay-wings family was detected, not hitherto 
d from Porto Rico. It was found by us just in time to 
be recorded by Dr. S. F. Bae in his monograph of this family 
in ‘North scare Flora 
Don Jorge Bird Arias ered for us a visit to Icacos Cay, 
a oo island off Cape San Juan, the pone Lea 
of Porto Rico, which we ae by his motor Fajardo 
