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present time, as I was informed, the neck of sand south of Beacon 

 Hill is sometimes breached by the seas during stormy weather. In 

 1911 the islet off the north-east side was separated by a narrow, 

 shallow passage nearly exposed at low-water. 



A puzzling feature in connection with Grand Turk is that the 

 North Creek is represented in the Admiralty chart as cut off from 

 the sea to the north by a tract of low land half a mile broad. This 

 seems inexplicable. The present condition is well brought out in a 

 map of the island made in 1902-4 by J. F. Osborn, Colonial Sur- 

 veyor, where it is shown that the North Creek approaches within 

 about 300 yards of the sea, with which it once communicated by a 

 broad passage, 200 yards across, that is now more or less silted up. 



In connection with Greater Sand Cay there is a note in the old 

 French chart to the following effect : " Upon this Bluff (the southern 

 end of the island) the French, after the late Peace, erected a Sea 

 Mark, which they were soon after obliged to demolish." This may 

 perhaps explain a reference to this island in the West India Pilot, 

 Part III., p. 370, 1909, where it is stated that 44 the remains of some 

 remarkably solid masonry on the cay are similar to those which may 

 be seen at Cape Isabella on Santo Domingo-Haiti." 



Note 33 (p. 361). 



Plants collected by George Forster in Fayal (Azores) in 1775. 



(Commentationes Societatis Regice Scientiarum Gottingensis, Vol. IX., 

 1787. The paper is entitled " Plantse Atlanticse ex insulis Madeirae, 

 St. Jacobi, Adscensionis, St. Helense, et Fayal reportatse." The 

 species are stated to be all Linnean. A indicates that the species 

 has not since been recorded from Fayal but from other islands of the 

 group. F indicates that it has since been found by Watson, Brown, 

 and others on Fayal.) 



F. Verbena officinalis. 

 F. Cyperus esculentus. 



Cyperus compressus. 

 F. Milium lendigerum (= Gastridium lendigerum, B.). 

 F. Polycarpon tetraphyllum. 

 F. Scherserdia arvensis ( = Sherardia arvensis). 



Borago officinalis. 

 F. Physalis peruviana. 

 F. Solanum pseudo-capsicum. 



Nerium oleander. 



Gentiana centaurium ( = Erythraea ramosissima, Pers. I K). 1 

 A. Erica scoparia. 2 

 F. Reseda luteola. 



1 It seems likely that Eryihraza centaurium, Pers., is here meant. It is now common 

 over the group, including Fayal, and was found by Hochstetter as far back as 1838. 



* Trelease suggests that the true Erica scoparia, L., which was found on the island 

 off Villa Franca (San Miguel) by Hochstetter, was merely a form of Erica azorica, 

 the common Tree-Heath of the islands. This, however, appears unlikely, since 

 Hochstetter himself differentiated the Azorean species. 



