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tant only about 60 miles from Nassau, but very light winds de- 

 layed our arrival until late in the morning of February 1 7. We 

 immediately landed and walked northward about two miles to 

 the beautiful nearly land-locked bay on which the town of Har- 

 bour Island is situated, obtaining among other interesting plants 

 additional living specimens of the Bahaman agave which we 

 had previously seen on many other islands, but which grows 

 here in large quantities, and some plants were in full flower. 

 The plant is really so abundant at this point as to give character 

 to the landscape and is known by the natives here as elsewhere 

 under the name of bamboo. We reached the town by sail- 

 boat and here Mrs. Britton and Mrs. Millspaugh remained for 

 two weeks, Mrs. Britton exploring northern Eleuthera, while Dr. 

 Millspaugh and I returned at once to the " Glass Window" where 

 the schooner awaited us and proceeded with the study of the flora ' 

 of Eleuthera from that point southward. 



On February 18, we walked southward about five miles to 

 Gregory Town, the schooner preceding us along the coast. 

 This walk and the one of the previous day gave us a very good 

 idea of the flora of the north-middle part of the island ; the most 

 interesting plant secured was a small cycad (genus Zamid) with 

 very narrow leaf-segments growing in white sand in the shade of 

 shrubs, evidently a rare species, as this is the only point known 

 to us where it occurs, although we were told that it grows else- 

 where on this island ; like the other Bahaman Zamias it is called 

 " bay rush " and its roots furnish starch similar to that obtained 

 from the sago palms (genus Cycas). Near Gregory Town we 

 saw the spiny shrub Catesbaea spinosa, with its large drooping 

 yellow flowers, dedicated by Linnaeus to Mark Catesby, a cele- 

 brated botanist who explored some of the Bahama Islands in 

 1725 and 1726 and subsequently published two folio volumes 

 with two hundred colored plates entitled » The Natural History 

 of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands," a rare work, of 

 which our library possesses a good copy. It is known that 

 Catesby visited Eleuthera, and it is possible that the shrubs seen 

 by us are descendents of those originally found by him, although 

 the species occurs elsewhere on this island ; it is also found on 



