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terrible drawback, for they attacked me in hundreds and at 

 times in thousands, seeming to come from all points of the com- 

 pass, including in particular the ground upon which one had to 



furnished a portion of the herbarium specimens. How to 



big, blac 

 ately an 



.tely fro, 



you deli 



the West Indian Islands of Carriacou, Grenada, Tobago and 

 Sea, so that if one wishes to botanize when the weather is dry, 





I came across, weed or o1 

 My duty therefore was t 



no sign of sandy 



specting the trees in and out of town, I obs 

 dividual appearing on a single tree. 



