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ber of interesting species,among them twoagarics strongly resem- 
bling Armillaria mellea and Volvaria bombycina of our own tem- 
perate regions. The banana-plantations and fence-posts along 
the road were also rich in species. We lunched on sandwiches 
and cocoanut-water and returned to the hotel in time to pre- 
pare the specimens for drying that night. On account of the 
delicacy of the coloring and surface character of the fungi it is 
necessary to make descriptive notes and drawings by daylight, 
which fades all too soon in the tropics after sundown. 
The next day, December 17, I leit Mrs. Murrill in charge of 
the collections and drove eastward along the north shore by 
Blue Hole and Priestman’s River, and some distance beyond 
turned inland toward the John Crow Mountains until the road 
stretches of virgin forest yielded rich and varied collections. A 
young cocoanut-grove near the end of my drive, about fifteen 
miles from Port Antonio, was particularly rich in species, partly 
because of the dead logs and stumps left from clearing the original 
the forest. magnificent clustered species of Lepiota, visible 
fifty yards from the road on an old stump of Cedrela odorata, 
was doubtless preserved in this way. 
While collecting in this grove I was fortunate enough to meet 
Mr. Henslow, the owner of a cocoanut-plantation to the south, 
situated considerable higher up on the hills, containing trees 
a century old which are still vigorous and free from disease. 
Henslow pointed out trees ten years of age that had been 
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture for tlie bacterial disease of the 
bud which has wrought such havoc with the cocoanut in Cuba, 
the Bahamas, and elsewhere. This treatment has undoubtedly 
yielded good results, but the eas of the mixture is 
sometimes a difficult pro 
The forenoon of ae ea ecadits 18, was spent in caring 
for the large collections of the day before, and in the afternoon 
we drove westward along the shore as far as ‘St. Margaret's 
