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while in the forest itself is seen an occasional columnar cactus, 
often 12 to 15 feet high, and scattered specimens of gee 
In one place many small plants of Furcraca were seen. he 
eastern end, along the Nuevitas Channel, is also ae and flat, 
but the growth for several miles inland is one of low shrubs, 
many of them spiny, some of which were not seen elsewhere. 
Along the sea for several miles is a dense thicket of shrubby sea- 
grape, Coccolobis Uvifera, with an occasional clump of the bay- 
cedar, Suvzana, while back of this is an extensive salina. From 
Nuevitas, to which I had shifted my headquarters about March 
15, 1 made excursions mostly by sailboat, Be various say about 
the bay, all of which afforded much additional mater he 
peninsula upon the neck of which the oe is built, aes as the 
Pastelillo, is rough and hilly, and, on account of its porous lime- 
stone formation, is quite dry. This contained many trees and 
shrubs that had not been collected by me elsewhere. The two 
larger of the three small islands in the bay were found to be quite 
similar to the Pastelillo. A fresh-water lagoon at Atalaya was 
found to be rich in trees and shrubs seldom met with elsewhere 
in this region. 
The extensive palm barrens northward along the railroad to 
Camaguey were explored, and the waxy-leaved palm already 
noted was detected several miles east of Minas, where it became 
arborescent, with a trunk often 6 feet tall. No stops for collect- 
ing were made between Camaguey and Cococum, but several 
oe stations were noted in this region. 
Holguin, where I collected plants during most of April, i 
on a dry nen encircled by high eruptive hills or mountains 
that have been made bare by frequent burnings, but their gullies 
and rocky places harbor a distinct vegetation not seen by me at 
any other point. It is largely composed of spiny shrubs, grow- 
ing in impenetrable thickets, while on the tops of some of the 
highest mountains one finds the maguey and a columnar cactus 
similar in appearance to the one seen on the coastal islands, but 
one can scarcely believe that it is the same species. On the sides 
of these hills a small palm, probably a 7#rinax, which I have not 
seen elsewhere, is sparingly persistent, but it is evident that the 
