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into my list, beside those which I actually saw, dis- 
sected, and tasted; and my descriptions are drawn; not 
from memory, but, for the most part, from notes whioh 
I took with the fresh- fruits before me. 
Some difficulty I have had in identifying the objects 
of my examination by their common names. “These are 
different in different i islands, and in different parts of the 
fie are blackberries at the north. In some cases, the 
- genera accuracy of my catalogue. 
fe My accounts of the fruits are accompanied * brief 
, ; memoranda of the trees which bear them, which are 
| usually of remarkable beauty. The botanical names, 
and a few notices of particular properties, I have taken 
from writers of authority. It is to. be observed, that 
of almost all the fruits of Cuba, as is likewise the case 
with our own fruits, there are several varieties. 
To please myself, and not without the hope that j it 
might be pleasant to others, I have enlivened my state- 
ments with occasional quotations of poetry, the most of 
which are taken from the “ Sugar Cane " of Dr. Grain- 
ger, who practised as a physician in St. Christopher's, 
about the middle of the last century. 
My list is arranged in the alphabetical order of the 
ind botanical genera. 
. Áenmas Sapota. This is a genus, containing at 
present but one species, of the natural order Sapotacez. 
same island ; just as among ourselves, dewberries at the ' 
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we 
