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on account of the approaching retirement of Mr. Fawcett from 
the position of Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. Being 
especially desirous of learning more about the flora of St. Ann’s 
Parish back from the coast, I concluded to abandon the further 
examination of the coastal region at this time, and on March 
o Mrs. Britton proceeded to Moneague, where a new base was 
established. I took the schooner to Port Antonio on March 31, 
and gave the next day to collecting on the hills a few miles to 
the southeast, and about the marshes east of the town, where I 
found quantities of a pretty yellow-flowered bladderwort (Uéricu- 
faria). 
I sent the schooner home to Nassau on April 2 and travelled 
by rail to Bog Walk, where I had a few hours time between 
trains for a study of the hillsides and the magnificent deep valley 
of the Cobre River. Here I met Dr. Hollick, who had remained 
for a week at Montego Bay, and proceeded with him in the after- 
noon by rail to Ewarton and by carriage to Moneague, where 
we rejoined Mrs. Britton. The party remained at Moneague 
until the morning of April 9, and, although hampered to some 
extent by rain, collected specimens of some 250 species, most of 
completely ; we rediscovered some of the rare species found here 
by the older collectors. To F. B. Sturridge, Esq., of Union Hill, 
we are under special obligations for aid and hospitality ; his beau- 
tiful estate, largely forest lands, reaches elevations of some 2,200 
feet, and here we collected many varieties, including fine fruiting 
specimens of the thatch palm (7érinax tessellata), previously 
observed in the neighboring hills at Hollymount, from which a 
crop of seedlings may be grown. We were also much pleased 
to see the large forest tree, black yacca (Podocarpus Purdicanus), 
of the Yew Family, from which fine specimens were obtained. 
Bromeliads, orchids, mosses and ferns were collected in variety. 
The day of April 4 was given to the “ Fern Gully,” on the 
road from Moneague to Ocho Rios. We had heard much of this 
ravine, but were unpleasantly surprised to find that its great 
natural beauty has recently been vandalized by the planting of 
