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animals, causing us much trouble to 

 cleanse the plant for preservation. 



At Manchioneal we made a ' ' great 

 find," among other valuable collections. 

 One day we brought our boat up 

 among some big boulders close in- 

 shore, beneath the bank of the village 

 street. We clambered out to reach 

 the sides of the boulders and were 

 rewarded by finding large patches of a 

 gloriously beautiful weed of most vigor- 

 ous growth, and its color varying shades 

 of purple. We instinctively felt that it 

 was new to science, and we were eager 

 to place it in the hands of the authori- 

 ties on algse. The plant proved to be 

 Gracilaria domingensis Sond, which 

 had been noted but once before, 

 in 1869. 



But this is not our only experience 

 of this kind. On our first trip to 

 Jamaica, on our sail up the coast 



