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of various kinds of flowers and trees, most of them uprooted. 
They were confiscated, and of Jack-in-the-pulpit they had taken 
410 plants! which are shown in the accompanying photograph. 
New signs have been posted throughout the limits of the New 
York Botanical Garden which read: ‘‘ The picking of wild flowers 
ts strictly forbidden” and the old signs read: “Do not pick or break, 
plant, leaf or flower.” It is hoped that these will help to prevent 
such vandalism! 
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON. 
FURTHER BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN CUBA 
To THE SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS, 
Gentlemen: Under previous authorization to continue botanical 
exploracion in the West Indies, I recently proceeded to eastern 
Cuba, leaving New York on the Royal Mail Steam Packet 
“Qrotava” on March 2, 1912, arriving at Antilla, on Nipe Bay: 
March 6. I was accompanied by Mrs. Britton and also by Mr. 
John F. Cowell, director of the Buffalo Botanic Garden. My 
sister, Miss Harriet Louise Britton, was also in the party. The 
objects of the expedition were to examine portions of Cuba not 
hitherto studied by us, and to reéxamine certain areas previously 
visited, for the purpose of obtaining more complete specimens of 
some species of exceptional interest previously collected. 
Collections were made at Antilla and at Punta Piedra, 
the coast of Nipe Bay, on March 6, 7 and 8, in coastal ae 
and woodlands. In woodlands less than a mile inland from 
Antilla, we were much pleased to find many plants of the cycad, 
Zamia media, and we obtained a number of them for cultiva- 
tion here. Zamia is a very interesting genus, containing a 
considerable number of species, the West Indian ones all having 
stout stems vertically imbedded in the soil, the crown of pin- 
nate leaves thus appearing to rise directly from the surface of 
the ground, the flowers borne in short, oblong cones in the middle 
of the crown of leaves, some plants being staminate, others 
pistillate. They are poorly represented in most collections of 
