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“...the first part of the
Flora of the W. I. Islands. In this latter case Suringar’s notes
sufficiently indicated the place, these islands being so much smaller
and easier to survey. It seemed sufficient in the second part of
the Flora to mention whether the plants had been collected by
Suringar in the islands or not.
The circumstance that I could not get the whole of Suringar’s
plants at my disposal during some time, rendered an extensive
account of his expeditions impossible and, in my opinion, super-
fluous, since nearly all parts visited by him were also studied by
myself, as will appear when his expeditions are compared with mine.
The labels of a great part of the Aruba plants show that many
of them were collected by Pastor v. Koolwijk, so that Koolwijk
is not a site, as the Symb. Antill. wrongly mentions in a few places....”
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