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- [Footnote: sea, Myrrhis andicola, Fragosa arctioïdes, and Pectophytum
pedunculare, intermingled with which there is an equally dwarfed Alpine Draba. The only umbelliferous plants growing in the low grounds within the tropics observed by us in the New Continent were two species of Hydrocotyle (H. umbellata and H. leptostachya) between Havannah and Batabano; therefore at the extreme limits of the torrid Zone.]*