JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Carden 
vo. anaey, 1 1903. a No. 37. 
REPORT ON A TRIP TO JAMAICA. 
Dr. N. L. Britron, Drrecror-In-CHIEF : 
Sty: In accordance with your directions I sailed for Jamaica 
on October 16, reaching there on October 20 and remained 
until November 26. The trip was undertaken on the invitation 
of the Hon. Wm. Fawcett, Director of the Jamaica Public Gar- 
dens, for the purpose of investigating a diseases of log- 
wood, cocoanuts and other economic pla y instructions 
were also to secure living specimens of eae for the con- 
herbarium. Thanks to the hearty codperation of the Jamaica 
Government and the United Fruit Company, and to the invaluable 
aid given by Mr. Fawcett and his associates, Mr. Wm. Harris 
and Mr. Wm. Cradwick, the objects of the expedition were suc- 
cessfully accomplished. Forty-five specimens of tree ferns rep- 
resenting fourteen or fifteen species were secured and forwarded to 
the Garden. Six hundred and thirty herbarium specimens were 
collected, of which nearly five hundred are fungi, the remainder be- 
ing lichens and mosses with a few fresh-water algae. These will 
be studied and lists prepared as soon as other duties will permit. 
The following plant diseases were observed. In a number of 
cases cultures were secured of the organisms found in the diseased 
tissues and a more extended account will be prepared when lab- 
oratory studies and inoculation experiments with these organ- 
isms have been completed. 
Logwood Root Rot. — On some estates, especially toward the 
western end of the island, logwood trees are dying in consider- 
