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aspect than the limestone sierras of either of the other groups 
and may belong to a different formation. Wright mentions 
having ‘‘climbed it twice,’”’ but what its plants are really like can 
only be ascertained by an ascent, which is probably not as 
difficult as it would seem to be. 
The preservation of the collections, interspersed with some 
short local excursions and the final packing of all accumulations, 
occupied the time until February 8, when I moved out to Havana, 
where I had to remain for several days to arrange for the ship- 
ment to New York of the Los Palacios collections. On February 
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Havana-Regla road, on which is supposed to be the type locality 
of the mysterious Cocos crispus, and my previous opinion of its 
being based on plants of Acrocomia was confirmed by the presence 
near the road of several specimens of that palm 
cacao a Sabaieed: 
J. A. SHAFER. 
THE McCLATCHIE HERBARIUM. 
The entire herbarium of the late Professor Alfred James 
McClatchie, of Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Cali- 
fornia, has recently been purchased by the New York Botanical 
Garden. It contains the following specimens, many of which are 
valuable types: 
PAC Ge oS fog Saha ee tata 784 
Glin miaw Sarees dailies Ghoul awk Dee teed aed 1,835 
Lichen: ic.c aed cere ens Moa dia ahs ecle Baaeaa aie bee ¥ 78 
Liverworts) 6c¢i23. 4203 2tas et Phe ered 22 
IM OSSES ioe ction: ot 2 eiahg “Cs tt a x ee 390 
Ferns 5.4. edis sac enay aia aon aden doulas Mads 
nee Plants’. ic ahs po deac ee eer iaeeas 2,630 
AD Otaliirciicrsse wean hath setna sn eau sh alates 5,806 
Professor McClatchie entered the University of Nebraska in 
