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above mentioned catalogue with a total of 1976 species, 163 new to science. 
That COULTER’s Manual of the Rocky Mountain Region (1885) does not include 
more than a fair representation of the plants of that floral region is indicated 
by the fact that RYDBERG describes in his monograph 776 species not mentioned 
in COULTER’s Manual. 
We have no detailed statistics of the species comprising the Pacific coast 
flora, but a count of those described in JEPSON’s Flora of Western Middle 
California gives 1463 species as the total number found west of the Sacra- 
mento and San Joaquin rivers, south of the counties of Mendocino, Lake and 
Colusa and north of the Pajaro River and Pacheco Pass. A Flora of North- 
west America comprises descriptions of 3052 species found growing without 
cultivation north of California, west of Utah and south of British Columbia. 
e total number of flowering plants in Mexico and Central America 
according to HEMSLEY in Biologia Centrali-Americana published some years 
ago is 11,626, of which total 8193 species are endemic, 2930 grow in 
north Mexico, 5848 in south Mexico, and 13 37 species known for Guatemala. 
Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras have 6693 endemic species. Nicaragua has 
843 species accredited to her, Costa Rica 1086 and Panama 1436, while the 
endemic plants for Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama represent 1076 species. 
The number of species for Mexico and the other states has been greatly aug- 
mented by the discoveries of C. C. PALMER, C. G. PRINGLE, JOHN DONNELL 
SMITH, J. N. ROSE and other botanists, so that the numbers given above 
must be considerably increased to accurately depict the statistics of the flora. 
GRISEBACH in his Flora of the British West Indian Island (1864) by a 
count of Professor KRUG gives the following number of species for the several 
islands named Bermudas 17, Bahamas 19, Turk’s Island 21, Jamaica 2301, 
Cuba 1051, Haiti 324, Puerto Rico 92, while the total number of species for 
the Windward, as well, as the Leeward islands and Trinidad given in the wor 
is 3143 spermatophytes and 366 pteridophytes. This represents the 
botanic ‚knowledge of the West Indies in GRISEBACHs day. Our information 
concerning the flora of these islands has been augmented vastly and the lists 
of species for the different islands, while still far from complete, are of con- 
Era length. The following enumeration categorically represents the avail- 
atıstics for the Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas. 
Cuba. 
According to GRISEBACH ’) the flora of Cuba consists of 
Dieotyledoneae ,.,,, 2350 endemic 781 
Monocotyledoneae . 643 > 148 
Vascular Cryptogams , , 279 > 10 
3272 > 939 
. 1) GRISEBACH: Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium 1866, 
