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Datura stramonium, Linn. 



Datura stramonium, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 179 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. -431 : Cliapin., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., p. 352. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Common — Lane; Jones; Rein; Lefroy. 



General in the temperate and tropical zones of both hemispheres, though it is uncertain 

 where it is really indigenous. 



Datura tatula, Linn. 



Datura tatula, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 2, p. 256 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 434. 



Datura stramonium j3 tatula, Dene, in DC. Prodr., xiii. 1, p. 540; Chaprn., Fl. Southern U.S., 

 p. 352. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Paget parish — Lefroy. 



Nearly as widely dispersed as the last, of which some botanists regard it as a variety. 



Nicotiana tabacum, Linn. 



Nkotiana tabacum, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 180; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 434. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Boadsides — Jones. 



Tobacco was cultivated by the earliest settlers, and often springs up in a wild condition. 



In Silvester Jourdan's narrative of A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the 

 Isle of Divels (Hakluyt, new ed. v. p. 55S), it is stated that very good tobacco was found 

 wild in the islands by Sir George Somers and his people, wrecked there in 1609. 



Nicotiana glauca, Grab., an arboreous species, was sent from Pembroke churchyard by 

 Sir J. H. Lefroy and Mr Beade, where it was probably planted. 



SCROPHULARINE^l. 

 Verbascum thapsus, Linn. 



Verbaseum thapsus, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 177 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 288 ; Gray, Manual, 

 ed. 5, p. 325. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Common — Michaux ; Lane ; Jones ; Lefroy. 

 Europe and temperate Asia. 



This is locally known as "Aaron's Bod;" and it was very common in 1806, when 

 Michaux visited the islands. Jones states that it is one of the most striking plants. 



Linaria elatine, Mill. 



Linaria elatine, Mill., Diet., n. 16 ; DC, Prodr., x. p. 268 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 291. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. A common weed in cultivated ground — Rein; Reade. 



Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia, and naturalised in other countries. 



