FLORA or NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 91 
Found also in Mexico and Central America, 153 
4 AE South America, 153 
Widely distributed, 68 
Species not hitherto reported outside of the United States, I 
f these 18 species, 4 are limited to tropical Florida, the other 14 
extend north of southern Florida. 
Of the plants apparently restricted to the United States and the 
Bahamas, Dondia linearis was found only on New Providence ; 
Smilax auriculata, Vitis rotundifolia, Sabbatia campanulata, Eri- 
geron quercifolium апа Jacquinia Keyensis were collected on both 
islands while the following were found only on the island of 
Andros: /va imbricata, Eugenia longipes, Mimusops Floridana, 
Myrica cerifera, Pluchea foetida, Salicornia Bigelovii, Polygala 
Boykinu, Samolus ebracteatus, Mitreola sessilifolia, Gerardia mari- 
tima, Gerardia purpurea, Pinguicula pumila. The last eight were 
confined to the western side of Andros, growing on the savannas 
the border of the swash or, in the case of the Pluchea, in damp spots 
in the pines. Myrica cerifera is said by Gardiner and Dolley to 
have been introduced from the United States. 
The three reported by Hitchcock as being confined to the 
United States and the Bahamas are Xanthium strumarium, Vitis 
rotundifolia and Distichlis spicata (the last found only in Inagua). 
The Vitis, he observes, may have been carried by birds and the 
Smilax, Eugenia, and Mimusops are probably due to the same 
agency. Many of our seed-eating birds either spend their winters 
in the Bahamas or stop there on their migrations. Catbirds and 
mocking birds, for instance, were abundant on Andros during the 
winter and early spring. 
The plants mentioned above as being found on the savannas 
and bordering the swash on the west side of Andros offer no 
inducements however to seed-eating birds, the fruits being dry and 
inconspicuous and the seeds in many cases minute. As has been 
noted before, the west side of Andros is a paradise for water birds 
and they are found there in large numbers. Many of these birds, 
Such as the great blue heron (Ardea herodias), the little blue 
heron (Ardea caerulea) and the КШдеег (Aegzatitis vocifera), are 
regular winter visitors from the United States. May it not be that 
some of these waders have at some time transported seeds of the 
plants in question, in mud that may have adhered to their beaks 
