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FUMARIA DENSIFLORA de C. Cat. h. Monsp. 113. 



Old and fallow cultivated fields common, at Walsingham (92) and 

 Hamilton (116) Bermuda. Leaf segments mucronate tipped. 



CRUCIFERACE^:. 



LEPIDIUM APETALUM Willd. Sp. PL 3: 439. 



Fallow fields near Hamilton, Bermuda (138); and Caguas, Porto 

 Rico (202, 221); dry stream bed near Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas 

 (510), a luxurious growth; hillside near the fort at El Caney, Santiago 

 de Cuba (1028), depauperate; old garden near San Miguel, Cozumel 

 (1567), typical growth; and roadside ditch in Progreso, Yucatan 

 (1749); not appearing native in any of the above localities. 



CAKILE MARITIMA Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2, 2:35. 



Even with the careful and discriminating characters in Prof. 

 Robinson's Cakile in Syn. Flora. N. A. 2, 1:132, I cannot separate 

 the specimens gathered into species according to the leaf or fruit 

 forms credited to each, as they constantly intermix, the leaves of 

 Americana and fruits of maritima appearing on one plant, .while the 

 reverse may and does occur, I therefore am compelled to place all 

 individuals gathered, under the older species. The plant seems to 

 require the clear clean sea air and spray, as it is not to be found on 

 the shores of large bays, though across the spits dividing such bays 

 from the sea it is found in profusion. Seashore sands at Santurce 

 (272), Culebras Island (626), Ratones Island, and Port of Ponce 

 (676), Porto Rico. Coral-rock shore line at The Creek, Cayman Brae 

 (1159), where it is known as "Bay-bush." Leaves entire, lanceolate, 

 rachis somewhat geniculate, fruits cylindrical-fusiform, upper cell 

 the longer, pointed, barely angular; plants depauperate from the 

 character of the location. Another specimen (1179) from the sandy 

 beach beyond the rocks, has the leaves all entire, but varying from 

 narrowly lanceolate to ovate, fruits not developed. Still another 

 (1179^) plant from the identical locality, in fact one of a clump of 

 which the previous specimen formed a part, has ovate-spatulate 

 leaves, the lower simply sinuate toothed, the upper deeply and 

 irregularly sinuate-cleft, fruits undeveloped. Specimens from the 

 sandy shores of Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1308), have narrowly 

 lanceolate, sinuate-dentate leaves, the fruits have the upper cell 

 elongated acute and 5-7 ribbed. The sandy beach at Cape Corientes 

 yields a form (1465) with sinuately divided leaves throughout, the 

 fruits comparing perfectly with those of the last mentioned 1308. 

 The western shore of Perez Island yields a form (1744) with lanceo- 

 late and ovate-spatulate entire leaves, and fruits with a large tumid 

 upper cell, sharply apiculate, and furrowed rather than angled. 

 Pajaros Island, adjacent, yields a form (1764, 1767) with thick leaves 

 of the form of the last, and fruits the apical cell of which is almost 

 globose-apiculate, while the lower cell is little other than an obconi- 

 cal peduncle. While the plants from both Perez and Pajaros 

 Islands are large fruit producers they have a sickly yellow appear- 

 ance compared with the fresh, cool green of those of Chico and 



