JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIII. December, 1912. No. 156. 
BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN eae 
WitH Prates CII, CIV, CV, CVI, 
To THE SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS. 
Gentlemen: For the purpose of further studying the flora of 
Bermuda, and the presumable origin of the plants composing 
that flora, I spent the period from August 26 to September 21 
on those islands, accompanied by Mrs. Britton and by Mr. 
Stewardson Brown, curator of botany in the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural Sciences; and accompanied by Mr. Brown, 
and by Dr. Fred J. Seaver, a curator of our museums, the 
period from November 29th to December 14th, was given to the 
same investigation; I had previously given three weeks to thisstudy 
with Mrs. Britton and Mr. Brown, in the autumn of 1905,* during 
which period a large portion of the land area of about 19/4 
square miles was studied and collections aggregating 427 field 
numbers were made. These were supplemented by Mr. Steward- 
son Brown in the winter of 1908 by 231 field numbers and again 
by him in the spring of 1909 by 66 field numbers,f and further 
by a collection of 85 field numbers by Miss Delia West Marble, 
also in the spring of 1909. The two expeditions of 1912 obtained 
over 650 field numbers. A total of more than 1,450 separate 
collections of plants have thus been made during the progress of 
this investigation and these aggregate over 5,000 specimens. 
Previous to 1908, the collections of Bermuda land plants avail- 
able for students in New York consisted only of a few specimens 
* See Journal N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6: 153-158. 1905. 
t See Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1909: 486-494. I910. 
