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schooner in which the filthy accommodations destroyed what 
might have been a delightful trip and left the voyage a thing to 
be remembered, whose forgetfulness would be more pleasant. 
The return voyage by the same means was avoided only by the 
chance appearance in Santiago harbor of one of the smaller ships 
of the United Fruit Company, which made the return to Port 
‘Antonio in a few hours. The lesson from my experience for 
future collectors would be to plan expeditions for one island at a 
time unless some generous friend places a yacht at their disposal 
for a more general survey of the West Indies, for the same diffi- 
culty obtains in intercommunication between any of the islands. - 
On my return I collected for a day in the vicinity of Port 
Antonio and made one excursion with Mr. William Harris, the 
superintendent of the Gardens, to Linstead, Ewarton, and Holly 
Mount in the Mt. Diablo region near the center of the island. 
This region, abounding in limestone rocks, proved very inter- 
esting for my purpose and many things which I had as yet seen 
nowhere else came to light here.. Among others was the climb- 
ing fern, Aspidium adscendens, which is fairly common in this 
region, often ascending trees to the height of twenty or thirty 
feet, and resembling in habit and cutting Polybotrya osmundacea. 
In the artificial ponds near Ewarton, a species of Marsilea which 
has been referred to the Brazilian Jf polycarpa is abundant. 
Living plants were shipped to the Bronx by packet post. Its 
peculiar arrangement of sporocarps renders it a most interesting 
problem for some one who desires an interesting morphological 
and embryological study. It was my intention to make a sec- 
ond visit to this Diablo range but it was found to be impracticable. 
Two weeks could be spent profitably by a collector in this region 
among the mosses and ferns alone, and later in the year the higher 
flora would repay careful study. Among the novelties noted 
was a fan palm, apparently undescribed, with a trunk over forty 
feet in height and not exceeding three inches in diameter at the 
base. It grows in dense woods, on the jagged limestone char- 
acteristic of the region. 
On April 9 Iwas met at Castleton by Mr. William R. Maxon, 
of the U. S. National Museum, who had expected to be with me 
