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. About 200 species obtained by A. A. Taylor, mainly i in the 
vicinity of Columbia, in the spring of r901, primarily on 
behalf of Cornell vata He collection was made up 
into sets, one of which is at the New York Botanical 
Garden. Professor W. W. R ene of Cornell University, 
following winter, and added 
Pp Mr. Taylor’s collection. 
6A a collection made by the veteran field botanist, A. H. 
Curtiss, principally in the vicinity of Nueva Gerona, in the 
