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Jrove over Hardware Gap and down to Silver Hill Gap, about 
ae ae miles from Kingston, by three o’clock in the after- 
n e the buggy left us and I waited with the luggage 
eae Airs, ee walked to Chester Vale, a distance of nearly 
two miles. While waiting for the bearers I collected sixteen 
species of minute fungi on the roadside at Silver Hill Gap. 
Fic. 4. Jamaica negroes removing the seeds from cocoa-pods. 
December 22 and 23 and the forenoon of December 24 were 
spent with Mr. and Mrs. Sidgwick at Chester Vale, where 
important collections were made at elevations of fron 3,000 
to 4,000 feet. The species found here and at Cinchona were for 
the most part strikingly distinct from those already collected. 
Jamaica has a foundation of igneous and metamorphic rocks, 
with white and yellow limestones and carbonaceous shales lying 
above. The geological formation may determine the soil, the 
elevation, and even the amount of moisture, all of which have 
a decided influence on the character of the fungi found in any 
given locality. In addition to this, the period when a given 
area was elevated above the sea may largely determine whether 
