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mountains opposite Bahia Honda, where he was long most hos- 

 pitably entertained b}< Don Jose Blain and Don F. A. Sauvalle. 

 From thence he pushed his explorations nearly to the south- 

 western extremity of the island at Cape San Antonio. In the 

 summer of 1864 he came home with his large collections, re- 

 maining there and at Cambridge for about a year. 



In the autumn of 1865, he went again and for the last time 

 to Cuba, again traversed the Vuelt-abajo in various directions, 

 proceeded by steamer to Trinidad and botanfsed in the moun- 

 tains behind that town, thence by way of Santiago he revisited 

 the scenes of his earlier explorations and the surviving friends 

 who had efficiently promoted them. The oldest and best of 

 them, the elder Lescaille, was now dead. In the month of July, 

 1867, our persevering explorer came home. 



Mr. Wright's Cuban botanical collections, from time to time 

 distributed into sets, with numbers, were acquired by several 

 of the principal herbaria, — the fullest sets of the Phaenogamous 

 and vascular Cryptogamous plants, by the herbarium of Cam- 

 bridge and by the late Professor Grisebach of Gottingen. Pro- 

 fessor Grisebach was in these years engaged with his Flora of 

 the British West Indies ; so that he gladly undertook the de- 

 termination of the plants of Cuba. They were accordingly 

 mainly published in Grisebach's two papers, Plardce Wrightiance 

 e Cuba Oriental^ in the Memoirs of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, 1860 and 1862, and in his Catalogus Plantarum 

 Cubensium exliibens collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex 

 Insula Cuba missas, an 8vo. volume, published at Leipsic in 

 1866. The latter work enumerates the Ferns and their allies : 

 but those for the earlier part were published in 1860 by Pro- 

 fessor Eaton, in his Filices Wrightiance et Fendleriance, a paper 

 in the eighth volume of the Memoirs of the American Acad- 

 emy. The later collections are incompletely published in the 

 Flora Cubana, a volume issued by F. A. Sauvalle at Habana, 

 in 1873 and later, — a revision of Grisebach's Catalogue (without 

 the references, but with Spanish vernacular names attached) 

 which was made by Mr. Wright, who added descriptions of a 

 good many new species. The only other direct publication by 

 Mr. Wright is his Notes on Jussicea, in the tenth volume of the 

 Linnaean Society's Journal. As to the lower Cryptogams, Mr. 

 Wright's very rich collections were distributed in sets and pub- 

 lished by specialists ; the Fungi by Berkeley and the late Dr. 

 Curtis ; the Musci, by the late Mr. Sullivant, the Lichenes, by 

 Professor Tuckerman in large part, and certain tribes quite 

 recently by Miiller of Geneva. So Mr. Wright's name is deeply 

 impressed upon the botany of the Queen of the Antilles. 



There was a prospect that he might do some good work for 

 the botany of San Domingo. For in 1871, a Government ves- 



