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THE PLANT WORLD. 
and lycopodiums cover the banks ; while most abundant and varied 
of all are the ferns, the branching Gleichenici, Hypolepsis with 
prickly stem, forming dense thickets where it climbs, the silver 
lined Ceropteris, and a species of Dryopteris with fronds eight feet 
long; and in the denser parts, where the climbing bamboo festoons 
itself like a curtain from tree to tree, the filmy ferns, Trichomcines 
and Hymenophylhim, the smallest and the daintiest of their kind. 
Beyond Morse’s Gap rises John Crow peak, the ascent of which 
Fig. 3. “ A species of Dryopteris with fronds eight feet long.” 
takes one through a primeval tropical forest where the under¬ 
growth is so thick that it is necessary to cut a trail to reach the 
summit, a height of 6,100 feet. 
On all our longer tramps our guide and counsellor was David 
Watt, the colored caretaker of the station. Armed with his 
“ machette,” or cutlass, he made passable the forest trail, and his 
keen eye was quicker than ours to detect a coveted specimen. 
David has contributed several new species of plants to the Hope 
