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for the purpose of collecting rusts for distribution in Arthur and 
Holway’s “ Uredineae Exsiccati et Icones. 
A stop of a few hours at Nassau in the Bahamas gave usa 
glimpse of the vegetation of these coral islands and enabled us to 
collect seventy-nine numbers, mostly of flowering plants, but in- 
cluding a few parasitic fungi. We reached Cuba on March 5, 
stopping at Guantanamo Bay for a few hours in the morning and 
arrived at Santiago late in the afternoon, where we found Pro- 
fessor Underwood awaiting us. Southern Cuba proved to be 
exceedingly dry. The usual dry season was at its height and 
the Fall rains had been scanty so that conditions were drier than 
at any time for ten years. This made collecting very unsatis- 
factory. Only fifteen numbers were secured during our stop at 
Guantanamo Bay and one hundred and ten during three days at 
Santiago. On the 8th we took the coasting steamer for Baracoa 
on the north coast near the extreme eastern end of the island, ar- 
riving there the next morning. This from the first had been the 
objective point of the expedjtion, as the moisture conditions were 
known to be favorable, and as it was one of the localities visited 
by Charles Wright during his memorable exploration of the 
island. Thanks to the hospitality of Mr. Charles Cooper, an 
American settler, we were able to make our headquarters at his 
cocoanut ranch, situated seven miles from town at the base of El 
Yunque Mountain and at an altitude of about 1,800 ft. Owing to 
the smallness of the mules and the steepness of the trail the 
entire day was occupied in making these arrangements and trans- 
porting our bulky baggage by pack mules, the only possible 
means of transportation in this really difficult country. 
finally arrived safely some time after dark, and after many mis- 
haps, including the rescue of one mule from a ditch where he 
had rolled with his load of driers. He landed head down and 
heels up nicely balanced on top of his pack. The location 
proved to be a very favorable one for our purpose. We re- 
mained here eight days and during that time secured over eleven 
hundred numbers, of which about one third were flowering 
plants, the remainder being ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens 
and fungi. No attempt was made to collect the algae. El 
