49 
on the afternoon ot December 23, We remained at Great Rag- 
ged Island until the morning of December 27, making good col- 
lections there both of the seed-plants and of the algae, including 
several additions to the known flora of the Bahamian archipelago. 
A low gray fine-branched shrubby plant of rather striking appear- 
ance found there is a member of the morning-glory family, 
Evolvulus bahamensis, recently described as a new species by 
Fic. 12, volvulus bakamensis House (in foreground), Great Ragged Island. 
Mr. Homer D. House. Our photograph (Fig. 12) gives some 
idea of its habit of growth. During our stay at Great Ragged 
Island we were the recipients of various helpful favors from the 
Resident Justice, Mr. Stevenson, to whom we carried a letter of 
introduction from Hon. Herbert A. Brook, of Nassau, Registrar 
of the Colony. 
From the Ragged Islands we headed northward for the return 
to Nassau, spending a few hours on the twenty-eighth on Harvey's 
Cay of the Exuma Chain and the morning of the next day on 
Rose Island, a few miles northeast of New Providence. Nassau 
