KEPORT ON THE BOTANY OF THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS. 



Sclerochloa rigida, Panz. 



Sclerochloa rigida, Panz., in Regensb. Denkschr., ii. p. 180, ex Kunth, Enum., i. 1, p. 393. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Rein ; Moseley ; Reade. 

 Europe, Northern Africa, &c. 



Poa annua, Li 



mn, 



Poa annua, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 68; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 562; Gray, Manual, ed. 5, 

 p. 629. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Moseley ; Reade, 



A native of the Old World, now naturalised in most temperate and sub-tropical 



countries. 



PHANEROGAMS .— GYMNOSPERM^E. 



CONIFERS. 

 Juniperus bermudiana, Linn. (Plate V.) 



Juniperus bermudiana, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1039; Parlat. in DC. Prodr., xvi. 2, p. 490; Hemsl. 



in Gard. Chron., n.s., xix. p. 656, figg. 105 et 106, et in Journ. Bot. 1883, pp. 259-261 ; 



Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. 1843, ii. p. 141, t, 1. 

 Juniperus barbadensis, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 1039; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind.. p. 503 (saltern, pro- 



parte). 

 Juniperus barbadensis Cupressi folio, ramulis quadratis, Pink., Almag., p. 201, et. Phytogr., t. 197, 



fig. 4 (bona). 

 Juniperus bermudiana, Hermann in Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. Catal. 1687, pp. 345-347 (forma 



juvenis foliis acimlaribus sed galbuli errone valde majores descripti ae picti). 

 Biota meldensis, Gord., Pinetum, p. 37, fide Parlatorei. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. Common throughout the islands, and the only indigenous 

 exogenous tree. The "Cedar" of the islanders. 



Also in the West Indies. 



As with the indigenous palm and Sisyrinchium, so with this ; great confusion has 

 prevailed concerning its specific identity, it having been alternately referred to Juniperus 

 virginiana and accepted as a distinct species ; while other authors, Grisebach, for example, 

 have followed Linnaeus and endeavoured to distinguish Juniperus bermudiana from 

 Juniperus barbadensis. Even now we are unable to give any definite information on its 

 distribution in the West Indies, and we are not absolutely sure that the same form occurs 

 there. Until recently we were of the opinion that Juniperus bermudiana was endemic 

 in the Bermudas ; but after examining specimens in the Sloane Herbarium in the British 

 Museum, purporting to have come from Jamaica and the Barbados, we have no doubt that 

 they are the same ; and the authenticity of their origin is in some measure confirmed by a 

 packet of berries lately received from Jamaica, for they seem to belong to Juniperus 



(bot. chaix. exp. — part i. — 1884.) All 



