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Otto Kuntze. ‘‘Um die Erde.” Pp. 514. Leipzig. 1881. 
Dr. Pica visited St. Thomas in 1874, at the beginning of his extensive 
Otto Mii “‘Revisio Generum Plantarum” 1: 2: pp. 1009. Leipzig. 1891. 
The author records specimens collected by him on St. Thomas in 1874. 
F. Borgesen and Ove Paulsen. ‘‘Om Vegetationen paa de Dansk-Vestindiske Mer.” 
otan. Tidsskr. Kjdbenhavn, 22: 1-114, f.1-43. 1898. [Reprint pp. 114.] 
Mr. Borgesen visited the islands in 1892, and again in 1895-6, on his second 
trip accompanied by Mr. Paulsen. They made extensive collections, and 
listed six Spermatophytes as additions to the known flora. The document is 
mostly ecologic, and especially detailed as to the composition of the coastal 
vegetation. It was translated into French by Mlle. S. Eriksson and pub- 
lished in 1900 (Rev. Gen. de Bot. 12: 99-107; 138-153; 224-245; 289-297; 
344-354; 434-446; 489-510). [Reprint pp. 108.] 
C. F. Millspaugh. “Plantae Utowanae.” Field Col. Mus. Bot. 2: 1-110; 113-135. 
pl. 25. 1900. 
During the cruise of the yacht Utowana, December, 1898, to March, 1899, 
Dr. Millspaugh, botanist of the expedition, visited St. Thomas on January 
17 and 18, 1899, and collected about 200 species, which are enumerated. 
C. F. Millspaugh. ‘‘Flora of the Island of St. Croix.” Field Col. Mus. Bot, <3 
902 
Annotated list of 1,029 species, based especially upon the large collections 
made in 1895, 1896 and 1897 by A. E. Ricksecker and Mrs. J. J. Ricksecker, 
with records taken from Baron Eggers Flora. Mr. Ricksecker published a 
oe of the species collected by him, pp. 4, not oie said Dr. Millspaugh 
a chapter upon the botanical history of St. Cro 
F, gone “Notes on the Shore Vegetation of the Danish West Indian Islands.” 
Bot. Tidsskr. 29: 201-259. f.r-140; pl. 3-6. 1909 
r. Borgesen made a third trip to the islands during the winter of 1905- 
tok pO S for algological studies. The paper is ecological, and supple- 
E. G. Britton. ‘“‘Mosses of the Danish West Indies and Virgin Islands.” Bull. 
Torr. Club 42: 1-8. I9QI5. 
Mrs. Britton lists, with annotations, 28 species of Mosses, including 3 de- 
scribed as new; four of the plants enumerated were found only on Tortola. 
H. G. Brock, P. S. Smith, W. A. Tucker. ‘‘The Danish West Indies, their Resources 
and Commercial Importance.”” 1917. 
The United States Department of Commerce has recently published as 
Special Agents Series 129 (pp. 68, figs. 1-8), a valuable document in which 
the vegetable products of commercial value are discussed. 
There are a very large number of records of plants from the islands in 
taxonomic monographs and lists of species by many authors. 
As a literary curiosity record may be made of a manuscript list of the plants 
of St. Thomas, undated, arranged upon the Linnaean system of classification, 
preserved in the library of the New York Botanical Garden, tiger in some 
years ago by the late Dr. T. F. Allen. 
General comments upon the vegetation are to be found in several books 
of travel. 
The earlier collections of botanical specimens are practically all 
to be found only in the herbaria of the Old World. Perhaps the oldest 
