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Bermudas. — Indigenous. Rocks, seaside — Lane; low ground — Jones; without 

 locality — Rein ; common — Reade. 



Maine to Florida, and in the Azores. 



This common salt-marsh and sea -shore plant of eastern North America occurs 

 abundantly in the Azores, and was described in the work of Seubert, cited above, as an 

 endemic species. It is, however, certainly the same as the North American species, and 

 it has been succfested that it was introduced into the Azores ; but there would seem to be no 

 more justification for this view than that the North American element in Ireland is wholly 

 an introduced one. Seubert (1844) has the following record: "Ad littora marina ins. 

 Terceira, Fayal, Pico et prsesertim in ins. Flores copiosissima usque ad 1000 ped." And 

 Watson, in Godman's Natural History of the Azores, pp. 178 and 269, quotes the islands 

 named with S. Miguel and Corvo in addition. At that date (1870) its identity with the 

 North American Solidago sempervirens had not been established, or, if it had, Watson was 

 not aware of the circumstance. Nevertheless, he was so acute in discriminating the 

 indigenous and introduced elements of a flora, and always prepared to meet with colonised 

 plants, that this Solidago must have been very well established not to have excited in him 

 a suspicion of its foreign origin. 



Solidago mexicana, Linn., one of the synonyms of Solidago sempervirens, seems to 

 have been erroneously recorded as Mexican, for there are no Mexican specimens in any of 

 the herbaria consulted. 



Solidago stricta, Ait. 



Solidago stricta, Ait., Hort. Kew., ed. 1, iii. p. 216 ; Gray in Proc. Am. Acad., xvii. p. 192. 

 Solidago virgata, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii. p. 117 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 211. 

 Solidago linoides, Solander ; Gray, Manual, ed. 5, p. 243. 

 Solidago angustifolia, Ell., Bot. Carol., ii. p. 388. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous? A universal weed — Lefvoy; Reade. 



Maine to Florida. 



\_Aster tripolium, Linn., is recorded in Jones's list as a common roadside plant ; but 

 we have seen no specimen, and it is very probable that the record originated in an 

 error.] 



Erigeron annuus, Pers. 



Erigeron annuus, Pers., Ench., p. 431 ; Gray, Manual, ed. 5, p. 237 ; Fl. Dan., t. 486 {Aster). 

 Stenactis annua, Nees, Ast., p. 273 ; DC, Prodr., v. p. 298. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Without locality or other indication — Rein. 



North America ; introduced in Europe and some other countries. 



(bot. chall. exp. — part i. — 1884.) A 6 



