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the majority of the species are common to adjacent islands or 
are endemic. If the species at these higher elevations in the 
older parts of the island have affinities with those elsewhere, they 
are probably to be found in Honduras, on the mainland, but 7 
percentage of endemic species is undoubtedly very large. 
On the afternoon of December 24 we rode up the stecy! 
trail from Chester Vale to Cinchona, ascending 2,000 feet in‘ 
distance of three miles, and were most cordially received by Mrs 
Taylor and her daughter, who did everything in their power to 
make our stay with them comfortable and pleasant. The weather 
was unusually rainy for the season, but sufficiently warm duri 
the day, and in the evening we always had a wood fire. | 
were abundant, the daily rains bringing them out in unusual’ 
numbers, and on account of the great quantity of dead wond 
near by, the result of the hurricane a few years ago, it was possi: 
ble to collect them between showers in the immediate vicinity of 
the laborator : 
The trees blown down were mostly exotics, some of them 
of immense size, such as the blue-gum of Australia (Eucalyptus 
globulus) and Masson’s pine, from China and Japan. The native 
red cedar (Juniperus barbadensis) was extremely abundant # 
this elevation, and its dead trunks and branches yielded a plent- 
ful sup of Tyromyces caesius, a temperate species found 
iferous wood. Other 
minalis, Cryptomeria japonica, Datura suaveolens, cherimoyet, 
tree-tomato, peach, coffee, tree-ferns, various bamboos and palms, 
roses in great profusion and beauty, and several large clumps @ 
pampas-grass (Gynerium argenteum). Numerous vines and 
smaller flowers added to the charm of this enchanted spot. 
On Christmas day, fifty-one species of fungi were collected, 
among them Boletus granulatus, a temperate species not before te 
ported from tropical America. Boleti are exceedingly scarce il 
tropical climates; only four species have been reported from out 
