JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. X. February, 1909. - No. 110. 
COLLECTING FUNGI IN JAMAICA. 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Drrector-1N-CHIEF. 
Sir: In accordance with your instructions, I left New York on 
the afternoon of December 5 with Mrs. Murrill on the S. S. 
“Prinz August Wilhelm,” of the Hamburg-American Line, for 
Kingston, Jamaica. Watling’s Island was passed in the fore- 
noon of December 9 and a short stop was made at Fortune 
was reached and a superb view obtained of the precipitous south 
side of the island just beyond the cape, with its deep cafions and 
dry foothills but sparsely covered with desert vegetation. Dur- 
ing the day the mountains of Haiti. said to reach elevations of 
10,000 feet or more, about 2,000 feet higher than any other moun- 
tains in the West Indies, were dimly visible in the distance on 
our left he revolution there in progress only emphasized the 
need of a stable government to make exploration and development 
possible, where the natural resources in lumber, minerals and 
virgin soil are at present probably greater than in any other 
island of the West Indian group. 
In the afternoon of December 10 the mountains of Jamaica 
became visible ahead, and we anchored in the harbor at King- 
ston about midnight. Early the next morning we drove through 
Kingston to the Constant Spring Hotel and established our 
headquarters there for the remainder of the month. In the 
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