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xerophytic region of Gonaives will yield, I am sure, rich results, 
and the pineland areas were but touched on their outer fringe ; 
the vast savannah in the center of the island must have its pecu- 
liar flora; the hills about the salt lakes in the south, one of 
them below the level of the sea, are reported to be the home of 
cacti, and need exploration; the southern coast with its high 
mountains, some reported to be nine to ten thousand feet high, 
and with the dry conditions common to the southern side of the 
island, still remain unknown; and the continuation of this last 
region in the long narrow peninsula which extends far to the 
westward, surrounded with a sea atmosphere, cannot but yield 
rich results. These are but features open to exploration in the 
Republic of Hayti. The whole of the sister Republic of Santa 
Domingo, the interior of which is reported to be even less known 
than is that of Hayti, remains, at least to the botanist, a terra 
incognita, and awaits the explorer. I trust it may be possible to 
continue our explorations in this island, which, I feel sure, will 
ield more new material than any of the other islands of the West 
Indies, not only from the fact of the extreme diversity of its sur- 
face, but also because, botanically, it is a virgin field. 
Respectfully submitted, 
GrEoRGE V. Nasu. 
FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. 
The completion of the great work which Dr. John K. Small, 
Curator of the Museums and Herbarium of the Garden, has 
been prosecuting during the last ten years, marks an epoch in 
the investigation of the wild plants of the southeastern United 
States. It forms an octavo volume of xii + 1,370 closely printed 
pages, in which there are descriptions of 6,364 species, 1,494 
genera, 236 families and 62 orders, including all the known 
flowering-plants, ferns, and fern allies of the portion of the 
United States south of the northern boundaries of North Caro- 
lina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, as far west 
as the one hundredth meridian. The specimens which have pro- 
vided the material for this gigantic study are nearly all included 
