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About the Book:-The author published a synoptical account of the grasses of the West Indies. That work a large amount of material has been added to the grass collection of the National Herbarium. The additions are from various sources, but consist chiefly of grasses collected in Cuba and Hispaniola by the late Erik L. Ekman, in Haiti by Emery C. Leonard, of the United States National Herbarium, and in Cuba by Brother Leon, of the Colegio de la Salle, Habana. The present publication is more than a revision of the earlier work. In the first work the descriptions of genera and species were abbreviated for the most part to diagnoses and, although the known ranges of the species were given, there was no citation of specimens. The present work gives fuller descriptions, with at least one species of each genus illustrated, 3 and cites specimens under each species, except for the few very common ones that are found throughout the region covered. The ranges of the species can now be indicated with much more exactness than was possible at the earlier date.