200 
daily, and was done entirely by Mrs. Lloyd in the constricted 
quarters of a small cabin. ithout her help at this time and 
during the summer, I could not have preserved the collections. 
During these few days, I visited the Fresh Water Lake, near the 
divide between the windward and leeward slopes of the island, 
and thought, erroneously I believe, to be a crater lake; and the 
Boiling Lake, of which no doubt obtains as to its real character, 
It was here that two persons recently lost their lives from poison- 
ing by the gas which emanated from the cauldron. Matson 
Rolle, my guide, was the third member of the party ; by no fault 
of his, however, did the accident occur. The vegetation of the 
huge crater, in which this lake and other geysers and hot-springs 
are found, is composed chiefly of grasses, sedges, Lycopodium 
cernuuin (or a closely related species), with a large admixture of 
smaller species. 
ter our return to Roseau, I went fora several days’ visit to the 
Soufriére region. Here I collected at Morne Rouge, P’tit Colibri, 
Palmiste, along the shore to Scott’s Head, known locally by the 
more picturesque name of Cachacrou, and on the steep southern 
slopes between this promontory and Morne Rouge. I was enabled 
to cover so much territory wholly because of Mr. Jabez Bellot’s 
kindness in furnishing horses, and accompanying me personally 
most of the time, in addition to giving me the hospitality of his 
house. 
The strand vegetation at this point, namely Soufriére, is, as I 
later found, typical for the whole island. The beach is of coarse 
gravel, steep and narrow. The only strand vegetation is a nar- 
row strip above tide composed of a row of Coccolobis Uvifera, 
“sea-grape,” trees with scarcely any additional plants. At 
points on the windward coast, in the bays, a species of Zermz- 
natia is an additional sometimes abundant element. Here, how- 
ever, sandy beaches may be found, when also lianas (Legumi- 
nosae and Convolvulaceae), including the tropical, circumterres- 
trial /pomaca Pes-caprae, form a more varied aspect. At best, 
however, the strand flora is by no means rich. 
On July 22, after a few days spent in visiting the plantations 
of Dr. H, A. Alford Nicholls, Mr. James F. Johnson and Mr. 
