it first unable 



to explain how the specimen came to be in his collection, until 

 the following abstract from Professor Fontaine's description was 

 called to his attention : " Mr. R. S. Williams, of Great Falls, 

 loaned Mr. Knowlton a beautiful imprint of a cycad which seems 

 to be new. A drawing of it was made and is given in PI. 

 LXXXIV, Fig. 4, of this paper. I have not seen the original, 

 but the drawing gives the character so distinctly that a descrip- 



Arthur Hollick. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENTS. 



A collecting expedition to Porto Rico, organized under the aus- 

 pices of the Garden and headed by Dr. Britton, left New York on 

 February 24 and returned on April I . Dr. Britton and Dr. Howe, 

 accompanied by Prof. William Morton Wheeler of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, spent ten days in the early part of 

 March on the island of Culebra, where the facilities of the U. S. 

 Naval Station were courteously placed at the disposition of the 

 party. In the collections made at this point the Cactaceae and 

 marine algae were especially well represented. Mrs. Britton, 

 Miss Delia W. Marble and Mr. John F. Cowell in the meantime 

 explored the mountains and foothills in the neighborhood of 

 MayagCiez in the western part of Porto Rico, afterward joining 

 the rest of the party at Arecibo for a trip across the island over 

 the Adjuntas road. A stop of a week was made at Utuado, 

 where two of the higher mountains of the island were climbed. 

 From Ponce, on the south shore, the return to San Juan was 

 made over the military road. The dried specimens of plants 

 secured by the expedition are represented by about 1,700 num- 



back. It is expected that a more extended account of the expe- 

 dition will appear in a later number of the Journal. 



The Garden laboratory at Cinchona, Jamaica, will be occupied 

 during the spring by Prof. Duncan S. Johnson, of Johns Hop- 



