On the Vascular Cryptogamia of the Island 
of Grenada. 
BY 
J. G. BAKER, F.R.S. 
Keeper of the Herbarium , Royal Gardens , Kew. 
T HE following is a list of the Vascular Cryptogams 
collected in the Island of Grenada (Windward Group) 
of the West Indies, by Mr. R. V. Sherring, F.L.S., during the 
winter of 1890-91. . Mr. Sherring visited the island under the 
direction of the Joint Committee of the Government Grant 
Committee of the Royal Society and of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, appointed to investigate 
the fauna and flora of the Lesser Antilles. 
The island is situated between ii° 58' and 12 0 8o' N. lat., 
and in 6i° 40' W. longitude, and is about twenty-one miles 
long by twelve miles in breadth, with an area of 125 square 
miles. It is about eighty miles due north of Trinidad. The 
centre of the island is entirely occupied by mountain ranges, 
which rise in one place to a height of 2,749 feet. Their upper 
slopes are clothed with forests, and the luxuriance of the general 
vegetation shows that the rainfall must be large. One of the 
most remarkable natural features is the crater-lake, called the 
Grand Etang, which is situated on a mountain ridge at an 
elevation of 1,740 feet above sea-level. The hollow which sur- 
rounds this lake contains the finest forests and most luxuriant 
vegetation in the whole island. When Mr. Morris, during his 
late mission to the West Indies, paid a hurried visit to the 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. VI. No. XXI. April, 1892.] 
