dry gray moss and some (58) patches of lichens. For the last half mile of the trail, the ridge rises at a gentler angle, mounting but 300 or 400 feet to the rim of the crater. This part again is covered with the compacted fine dust of the 1902 May outbursts of the volcano. This IN material retaining moisture well, its surface is thoroughly covered and well protected by a thick coating of a flat-leaved moss (Moss? Consult Miss Britton and show her the specimen, No. 540, collected at the site of my first camp.) which retard their erosion. Here and there grows a tuft of grass or a little bush. End of St. Vincent Section. "Cluett" voyage follows.