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squamatum, all of the other plants which occur at this elevation 
grow abundantly lower down. Apparently the same sort of 
vegetation continues to the base of the hills mentioned above, 
about 200 ft. higher. The northwest sides of these hills are cov¬ 
ered with forests, apparently made up largely of Scalesia trees. 
The southeast sides are treeless, however, as was noticed from 
the settlement near Wreck Bay, later in the season. 
Sappho Cove. 
Sappho Cove is also situated on the west side of the island 
about four miles northeast of Basso Point. The bay is small and 
almost entirely land-locked, but owing to the fact that it is very 
shallow, only small vessels can anchor in it. The shores sur¬ 
rounding the bay are made up of basaltic lava and sand beaches 
on which there are small groves of trees of Rhizophora Mangle 
and thickets of Laguncularia bushes in places. A short distance 
back of the beach in the vicinity of salt water pools, there are 
trees of Avicennia officinalis. The sand in the vicinity of the 
pools, and on the beaches, is covered in places with a heavy 
growth of Batis maritima, Sesuvium Portulacastrum, and Spor- 
ooblus virginicus. In several places along the open coast, 
in this vicinity, the sand has been thrown up into long ridges, as 
a result of the action of wind and w'aves. These ridges are cov¬ 
ered, on the side next to the land, with a heavy growth of Con¬ 
ocarpus ereetus, Cryptocarpus pyriformis, Discaria pauciflora, 
Maytenus obovata, Scaevola Plumieri, and Yallesia glabra. The 
roots of these bushes prevent the sand from shifting inland too 
rapidly. 
The country is very flat between Finger Point and Sappho 
Cove, and is covered with beds of basaltic lava. In the immedi¬ 
ate vicinity of the cove this lava is covered with a tolerably dense 
growth of xerophytic vegetation which gradually becomes thin¬ 
ner farther north until it is practically bare in the vicinity of 
Finger Point. As the vegetation decreases in amount it also be¬ 
comes smaller, and such species as Bursera graveolens, which 
grow to the size of trees around Sapho Cove and further south, 
are mere bushes as Finger Point is approached. This place 
illustrates the gradual invasion of lava by higher plant life bet¬ 
ter than any other visted upon the islands. The most common 
plants on the lava beds here are: Aristida subspicata, Borreria 
