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COMPOSITE. 

 Ageratum conyzoides, Linn. 



Ageratum conyzoides, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 839; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 356; Chapm., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., p. 189. 

 Bermudas.— Introduced. A common weed — Lefroy, 



Generally dispersed in the warmer parts of America, and naturalised in many other 

 countries. 



Eupatorium foeniculaceum, Willd. 



Eupatorium foeniculaceum, Willd., Sp. PI., iii. p. 1750; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 196. 



Bermudas.— Indigenous. Roads near Hamilton— Lane ; Pembroke marshes — Lefroy ; 

 a common weed on waste ground that has been cultivated — Jones. 

 Carolina to Florida. 



Eupatorium conyzoides, Vahl. 



Eupatorium conyzoides, Vahl, Symb., iii. p. 96; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 358; Chapm., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., Suppl., p. 627. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Without locality — Lefroy. 

 South Florida, and West Indies and Mexico to Brazil. 



Eupatorium macrophyllum, Linn. 



Eupatorium macrophyllum, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 2, p. 1175; Hemsl. in Journ. Bot., 1883, p. 258. 

 Hebeclinium macrophyllum, DC, Prodr., v. p. 136; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 356. 



Eupatorium bermudense latifolium ftosculis pallescentibus, Silvenveed, nostratibus vulgo, Pluk., 

 Phytogr., t. 243. 



Bermudas. — Introduced 1 In the Sloane Herbarium (xxii. p. 80, and xcvi. p. 28), 

 British Museum — Dickinson. 



Throughout the West Indies and southward to Brazil. 



This plant is not in any of the modern collections, yet it is possible that it may still 

 exist in the islands ; for, as we have observed before, many of the indigenous plants are 

 very rare and local. 



Solidago sempervirens, Linn. 



Solidago sempervirens, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 878; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 211; Gray, 



Manual, ed. 5, p. 242, et Proc. Am. Acad., xvii. p. 192. 

 Solidago mexicana, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 879, fide Gray in Proc. Am. Acad., xvii. p. 178. 

 Solidago laevigata, Ait., Hort. Kew., ed. 1, iii. p. 215. 

 Solidago limonifolia, Pers., Ench., ii. p. 449. 

 Solidago azorica, Hochst. in Seub. Fl. Azor., p. 31, t. 10 ; Godm., Nat. Hist. Azor., p. 178. 



