Floristie work. — West Indies. 37 
founded upon material desposited later in the Gray Herbarium at Harvard 
University, Kew Herbarium, London. The same year the Report on the Botany 
of the Bermudas and various other Islands of the Atlantic and Southern 
Oceans by W. BOTTING HEMSLEY appeared as Volume I, Part I Botany of the 
Challenger Expedition; so that the flora of these islands is well provided for 
by the several publications above mentioned. 
In 1885 JoHow’s special morphologic studies entitled “Vegetationsbilder 
aus West-Indien und Venezuela”, and “Die chlorophylifreien Humusbewohner 
West-Indiens”, saw the light. Flora arboricola de Cuba, aplicada of 118 pages 
by SEBASTIAN ALFREDO DE MORALES was printed at Havana in 1887. — Two 
works of importance to our knowledge of the algae of the Antilles appeared 
in 1888. One by F. HAUcK, published in Engler’s Jahrbücher, is entitled Meeres- 
algen von Puerto Rico. The other is by GEORGE MURRAy, viz., Catalogue of the 
Marine Algae of the West Indian Region, printed in Britton’s Journal of Botany, 
The reports of the committees appointed for the purpose of reporting on 
the present state of our knowledge of the zoology and botany of the Bahamas 
and West India islands appeared in the several reports of British Association 
for the Advancement of Science beginning with 1888. The Provisional List 
of the plants of the Bahama Islands by JoHN GARDINER and L. J. K. BRACE 
arranged with notes and additions by CHAs. S. DOLLEY was published in the 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 188g. 
WILLIAM FAWCETT in the Bulletin of the Botanical Department of Jamaica 
for 1889 gives a report on the flora of the Cayman islands and in 1893, he 
published a provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants 
of Jamaica. MANUEL GOMEZ DE LA MAZA published in the annals of the 
Society of Natural History at Madrid from 1890-94 his Catälogo de las 
Periantiadas Cubanas, espontäneas y cultivadas. ’ 
G. 5. JENMAN is the author of an important series of papers in the Bulletin 
of the Botanical Department of Jamaica 1890—98 entitled Synoptical List with 
descriptions of the Ferns and Fern-allies of Jamaica and of Ferns of the Brit- 
ish West Indies and Guiana issued under the auspices of the botanic gardens 
at Trinidad. — List of plants collected in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand 
Cayman is the title of a report in the Fourth Annual Volume of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden (1893) of an expedition led by JosEpH T. ROTHROCK to the 
West Indies. New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat, Watlings, Crooked, Fortune, 
Great Inagua, Jamaica and Grand Cayman islands were visited. The collected 
plants are in the herbaria at Philadelphia and St. Louis. — ROBERT COMBS 
Published in the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of St. Im, u 
1897 a brochure on Plants collected in the Distriet of Cienfuegos, Province 
of Santa Clara, Cuba in 1895. Johns Hopkins University circulars (1897) cont- 
aın a report by W.K. BRooKS on the expedition to Jamaica in the Mn 
Of 1897 marked with fatality, for J. E. HumpHReys and. Dr. CONANT died < 
fever, one in Port Antonio, the other in Boston. The plants of this = 
tion were collected by A. FREDHOLM and are deposited in the United States 
