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impenetrable tangle of vines and bushes. At this season of the 
year few of the shrubs and trees were in flower, and while we got 
some interesting things, the botanical possibilities of the place 
were soon exhausted and we returned to Santiago the following 
afternoon, having secured 190 numbers. This included a consid- 
erable number of fleshy fungi, found on the fallen timber along 
the railroad right-of-way. 
On the 25th we took a sail boat and spent the day landing at 
various points on Santiago Bay, securing about forty additional 
numbers. This ended active work, as the country about Santiago 
was too dry to repay farther effort at collecting. On March 27 
Professor Underwood sailed for Jamaica and on the 28th I took 
the steamer for New York. 
Of the sixteen hundred numbers collected during this trip, 
something over one third were flowering plants, the remainder 
being ferns and the lower cryptogams. The large number of 
ferns secured by Professor Underwood will doubtless prove of 
exceptional interest. The fungi are of much the same general 
type as those I collected last fallin Jamaica. Polyporaceae and 
Thelephoraceae are abundant ; Hydnaceae are rare. The ground- 
inhabiting Agaricaceae are almost entirely wanting, though the 
forest conditions at Baracoa seemed to be exceedingly favorable 
for them. The kinds growing on rotten wood were fairly well 
represented. With the exception of Meliola and Asterina, leaf 
parasites were rare. Mr. Holway found so few rusts that after 
three days at Baracoa he decided to go on to Havana by steamer 
and rail, hoping for better results at some other point. 
Owing to the difficulties of travel and transportation, the thor- 
ough exploration of eastern Cuba will be anything but an easy 
task, The results to be obtained are however more than sufh- 
cient to justify the necessary effort. A rugged mountainous 
region lying west of Baracoa is almost nee unknown. 
This being on the wet side of the island could best be explored 
during the comparatively dry winter and early spring months. 
The high mountain range near the coast west of Santiago is also 
practically unknown and promises rich returns. The flora is very 
different from that on the north side. This had best be visited 
