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Croton maritimus, Walt. 



Crotonmaritimus, Wa.lt., Fl. Carol., p. 239; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 407; DC, Prodr., xv. 2, 

 p. 689. 



Bermudas. Indigenous. Paget sandhills and other places on the coast, common — 



Lefroy; Reade. 



North Carolina to the West Indies, Mexico, and Venezuela. 



Mercurialis annua, Linn. 



Mercurialis annua, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1035 ; DC, Prodr., xv. 2, p. 797 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern 

 U.S., Suppl., p. 647. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. A weed in cultivated ground — Lefroy; Moseley. 



North temperate regions of the Old World, and naturalised in many other parts. 



Ricinus communis, Linn. 



Ricinus communis, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1007 , pro parte ; DC, Prodr., xv. 2, p. 1017; Griseb., 

 Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 37 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 409. 



Bermudas.— Introduced. Rein ; Lefroy. 



Tropical Asia, and naturalised in all warm countries. 



URTICACE^E. 

 Celtis occidentalis, Linn. 



Celtis occidentalis, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1044 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 417. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous ? The caves — Lefroy ; near Walsingham — Reade. 

 North Carolina to Florida. 



\_Morus rubra, Linn., and perhaps some other species of the genus, has been cultivated, 

 and exists in a half-wild state.] 



Ficus carica, Linn. 



Ficus carica, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1059 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 415. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Wild in some places — Lefroy. 



Imported from Europe early in the seventeenth century, and extensively planted. It 

 probably exists in the islands only as the remains of cultivation, as seedling plants are 

 unknown, apparently, in countries where the Caprifig does not grow. There appears to be 

 no evidence that Sir George Somers met with wild figs when he first landed in the islands. 

 Yet Mr Darrell seems to have been of this opinion, judging from the following communi- 

 cation to Sir J. H. Lefroy : — " I always believed that these indigenous fig-trees were left 

 here by the Spaniards who discovered Bermuda before Sir George Somers saw it ; and 

 who, no doubt, left here the indigenous black hogs Sir George found here." 



