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the following genera, also, have never before been reported from 
the Bahamas: Coccothrinax, Inodes, Aletris, Vanilla, Broughtonia, 
Polystachya, Cranichis, Limodorum, Hypoxis, Pedilanthus, Maba, 
Mitreola, Voyria, Trianosperma, and Aster. 
My sincere thanks are due those who have assisted me in the 
preparation of this report, especially to the following specialists 
who kindly determined the cryptogams: Mr. Frank S. Collins, 
of Malden, Mass., the algae; Dr. Albert Schneider the lichens ; 
Professor Lucien M. Underwood the fungi; Mrs. Elizabeth G. 
Britton the mosses, and Professor D. C. Eaton who determined a 
number of the doubtful ferns in 1890. The report on the palms 
has been prepared by Mr. O. F. Cook, of the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington, to whom I here wish to express my 
obligations. Dr. М. L. Britton and Mr. George V. Nash kindly 
named the grasses, and Dr. Britton the sedges. І am also 
greatly indebted to Dr. Britton for advice on many points and 
for his kindness in comparing and identifying а number of our 
plants at Kew in 1801, also to him and to Dr. John K. Small 
for revising the nomenclature in many instances, and to Professor 
Underwood for revising the names of the ferns and other kindly 
assistance. А number of doubtful specimens were compared by 
me at Cambridge in 1897 and I take this opportunity of thanking 
Dr. B. L. Robinson and his assistants for the kindness then shown 
me and for a number of determinations they were good enough 
to make for me the following year. І also wish to acknowledge 
gratefully several determinations made for me by the authorities 
at Kew in 1897. 
The new species have been most successfully drawn by Miss 
Mary V. Thayer, of Holbrook, Mass., to whom I wish to express 
my thanks for her careful work.* 
5 *The long period that has elapsed since the collection of these plants, and the 
publication of this report may call for a word of explanation. My husband was work- 
