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easterly of the islands visited on this expedition. We remained 
here from the fourteenth to the night of the sixteenth and col- 
lected many interesting plants not found on the other islands, 
including the Jamaican lignum-vitae, Guadacum officinale, a species 
which, we believe, has not hitherto been re ported from the 
Bahamas. Cockburn Harbor also furnished us numerous algae 
of interest. 
During our stay at South Caicos, we heard much of the rich- 
ness of the flora of the neighborhood of the settlement known as 
Kew, on the island of North Caicos, some forty or fifty miles to 
the northwest by a direct line, though considerably further by 
the “outside” or ‘ocean’ route which our schooner was obliged 
to take in order to reach it. Late in the afternoon of the seven- 
teenth we anchored off Fort George Cay and Pine Cay, at the 
western end of the island of North Caicos. Pine Cay takes its 
name from the presence of Pinus caribaea, which is fairly com- 
western islands of the Bahamian group, at least on Andros, Great 
Bahama, Abaco, and New Providence. Arrangements having 
been made for a visit to Kew, one of our party (Mr. Wilson) 
started for that point at daybreak of the eighteenth in a small boat, 
accompanied by two natives and the first mate of the “ Nellie 
Leonora.” The distance from our anchorage to Kew Landing 
was about four miles, and, the route lying over a part of the shal- 
low northern border of the Caicos Bank, a considerable portion 
of the trip was accomplished by pushing the boat along with a 
pole. The landing was reached at about ten o’clock and after 
following a trail for nearly three miles, we sighted the settlement 
of Kew, where our visit was evidently of as much interest to the 
inhabitants as the plants found there were to us. The tree locally 
known as the “oak” (Bucida Buceras) here attains a large size, 
excellent examples of it growing along the main thoroughfare 
of the village. Owing to the richness of its soil and consequent 
development of its vegetation, North Caicos was by far the most 
