Rev. E. C. Reinke writes from Fairfield, Island of Jamaica, that there are four species of Ilex on the island, viz, _I. obcordata_, _I. occidentalis_, _I. diœca_, _I. montana_. Most of these are found on the Blue Mountains, 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. He could not ascertain that any use whatever was made of the leaves or berries either on the island or anywhere in the West Indies. As the aborigines of the West India Islands are all extinct, or nearly so, it is not strange that no present use is made of the Ilex. It is probable that none of these species contains any such active constituents as the _I. cassine_. Dr. Chapman, in a recent letter, says: “The I. cassine grows along the whole east and west coast of Florida, and on the shores of the Gulf and in Texas, if the _Orcophiles_ (Scheele) is the same, as is possible.” John M. Coulter (Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, vol. II, No. 1, Texas) mentions that the _Ilex cassine_ yaupon “extends into Texas to the valley of the Colorado.” This would imply that it is not found farther westward than the mouth of the Colorado River, which is at Matagorda Bay, about halfway from the Louisiana line to the Rio Grande. In a recent pamphlet on the extinct coast Indians of Texas, the _Karankawas_, Gatschet mentions their use of the cassine. They gathered it “in the woods, _not_ on the coast line,” but probably not beyond the tide water of the rivers. These Indians lived on the coast from the Colorado River to the Rio Grande, so it must be found as far as the latter river. Possibly its habitat extends down along the Mexican coast. P. M. Hale, in his “Woods of North Carolina,” describes several species of holly. Of Ilex cassine he writes as follows: