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chium graminewm (Bot. Mag., t. 464), recognised the impropriety of the step, and acknow- 

 ledged that it oiifdit to bear the original name of bermudiana. 



De Candolle (in Iledoute's Liliacees) also insists upon the specific rank of the 

 Bermudan plant, which, unlike the ordinary Sisyrinchivm gramineum, Sisyrinchium 

 anceps, and other forms with which it has been associated, is not hardy in England, but 

 requires the protection of a greenhouse. Mr Baker, in his recent Systema Iridacearum, 

 placed it as a variety of a species embracing the forms just named, but he now agrees that 

 it is entitled to stand as a distinct species. 



Its more striking characters are : its relatively large size, broad equitant leaves, short, 

 broad, nearly equal bracts of the spathe, and its broad obovate mucronate perianth 

 lobes. 



Sisyrinchium bermudiana seems to be no longer in English gardens, and it is not the 

 species naturalised or wild in Ireland, and naturalised in the Mauritius, Australia, and 

 New Zealand. In Bishop Goodenough's Herbarium, now at Kew, there is a cultivated 

 specimen of the Bermudan plant. 



AMARYLLLDEiE. 

 Narcissus jonquilla, Linn. 



Narcissus jonquilla, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 290; Bot. Mag., t. 15. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Escaped from gardens — Lefroy. 



Europe. 



Agave americana, Linn. 



Agave americana, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 323; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Iud., p. 582. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Used for hedges, and also occurring in a more or less 

 wild state — Jones; Rein; Lefroy. 

 Mexico and the West Indies. 



LILIACEiE. 

 Aloe vera, Linn. 



Aloe vera, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 320 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii. p. 176. 

 Aloe vulgaris, Lam., Encycl., i. p. 86 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 582. 

 Aloe barhademis, Mill., Abridg. Diet., ed. 6, n. 2. 



Bermudas. — Introduced, llocky places — Rein; common — Moseley ; Lefroy ; not very 

 common in a wild state, the flowers being only occasionally seen on the sunny slopes of 

 the southern shore — Jones. 



Mediterranean region. Introduced into the West Indies upwards of three centuries 

 ago, and imported from the Barbadoes into English gardens in 1596, hence Miller's name. 

 Mr Darrell gives the following particulars of its introduction into the Bermudas : — 



