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Knutsford Park race-track by Miss Brooks. This same species 
was common about the house at Chester Vale and on the lawns at 
Hope Gardens and Constant Spring, where I found it growing 
in immense “ fairy-rings.” It reminded me very much of <4. ar- 
vensis, as it grows in some parts of Sweden, and it is certainly 
edible, although not often eaten in Jamaica. Three species of 
puff-ball were collected for me at Hope Gardens by Mr. Harris 
and I found a very large one growing in “ fairy-rings”” on the 
Fie. 8. Scene in the forest near Cinchona, Jamaica. 
golf-links at Constant Spring, which developed beneath the soil 
and burst through the ground at maturity covered with particles 
of soil and having an abundance of dirt enmeslied in the fibers 
of its outer coat. 
We had now visited the Blue Mountains, the foothills of the 
John Crow Mountains, the lowlands on both sides of the eastern 
end of the island, and the middle altitudes between Constant 
Spring and Annotta Bay. Our plans also included a visit to the 
Cockpit Country in Trelawney, and to Moneague, in the cele- 
brated parish of St. Ann. We were fortunate in having the 
