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we found a remarkable cactus of the genus Harrisia, growing 
pendent and straggling over the rocks and in this respect and 
others different from all its known relatives; many kinds of ferns 
were obtained in deep holes of the limestone and in the wooded 
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Fic. 31. Lake in the Tobacco Lands, Pinar del me: Water Hyacinth, Piaropus 
crassipes, on the 
valleys, and several fine aroids and bromeliads were collected. 
Returning to Herradura, parts of three days were given to the 
care of the collections already made and to further field work in 
the savannas. 
On the morning of September 5 we proceeded westward by 
rail to the city of Pinar del Rio; and from there the country 
north and south was studied botanically until September 12, 
transportation by carriage being comfortable and convenient over 
the recently built calzadas, fine stone roads constructed during 
the second occupation of Cuba by the United States army, 
reaching from the south coast at Coloma to the north coast at 
Esperanza, eastward all the way to Havana, and westward over 
high pinelands towards Guane. Splendid views of the southern 
coastal plain are had from the Guane calzado, which winds beauti- 
fully among the lomas, reaching altitudes of over 800 feet a few 
