16 FLoRA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
as it flows through the Florida Straits tends to prevent seeds 
being brought from the north by water. 
In compiling the table found below, giving the distribution of 
the plants, collected by us, the following volumes have been the 
principal ones consulted: Grisebach's Flora of the British West 
Indies, Grisebach's Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, Plants col- 
lected in the Bahamas by Hitchcock, Plants collected in the 
District of Cienfuegos, Cuba, by Robert Combs, 1895; Jamaica, 
List of Fawcett; Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands, 
Eggers; Chapman's Flora of the Southern United States and 
other works on the North American flora. 
