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sands they grow higher, sometimes up to fifteen feet. The small 
flowers of this interesting race open white in the morning and fade 
pink ; the small pods are nearly round, pointed, and the cotton 
fiber is short and adheres to the seed. Some of the plants are 
very hairy, others very nearly without hairs. We secured a 
quantity of the seeds, some of which I immediately sent by mail 
to Mr. F. V. Coville, Chief of the Division of Botany, United 
States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for experi- 
mental work in plant breeding, and Mr. Harris took a supply to 
Hope Gardens; abundant museum and herbarium specimens 
were also collected. Among many interesting shrubs and trees 
observed here, the beautiful and rare Catesbaca parvificra, a low 
shrub of the Madder Family with small dark green leaves and 
snow-white berries, deserves special mentio 
We anchored during the night in Carlisle Bay and early next 
fi 
then nearly northwest, the total distance about fifty miles; an 
obliging ‘‘norther” blew vigorously during the day, and after 
some beautiful sailing we landed at the old castle at Bluefields 
early enough in the afternoon to make arrangements with the 
willing corporal of police for the ascent next day of Bluefields 
Mountain, and also had time to study the coastal thickets a mile 
or two west of the town. ; 
Bluefields is classic ground biologically, for here resided the 
English naturalist Gosse during his visit to Jamaica, and it was 
mainly here that the materials for his books, entitled “ The Birds 
of Jamaica” and “A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica,’’ were 
derived. We gave March 7 to the ascent of Bluefields Moun- 
tain, traversing some of the region studied by Gosse. Ponies 
were supplied by Police Corporal A. A. Williams, and Constable 
Wallace was detailed as guide. The land has been much cleared 
for cultivation since the visit of Gosse and it was only after long 
riding that we came to tracts of forest at altitudes of over 2,200 
feet, where some species not heretofore collected by us were 
obtained, notable among them a fine red-flowered Colummnea, a 
vine of the Gesneria Family, which we hope to introduce into 
