A. E. Veririll — 77<e Bermuda Islands. 



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Melochia odorata L. Pembroke Marsh. A rare tree ; native of the 

 Pacific Islands. 



Phichea camphorata DC. Marshes. 



Pluchea odorata Cass. Marsh Flea-bane; Wild Tobacco. Pembroke 

 Marsh. A composite shrub. West Indies; Central America. 



Pluchea purpurascens DC. Shelly Bay Swamp and near Warwick 

 Pond. Annual. Florida; Mexico; West Indies. 



Kosteletzkya Virginica Presl. Pembroke Marsh. A rare, East- 

 American, herbaceous, malvaceous plant, 2-4 feet high. The 

 lower leaves are mostly ovate or cordate and three-lobed, upper 

 ones entire. Flowers purple, in terminal racemes. 



Figure 35. — Peperomia magnolicefolia (?); Bermuda variety. From life. 



Paronia spinifex Cav. Burr Bush. Southampton only. 



Sapindus saponaria L. Soap-berry Tree. Rare. The black seeds, 

 which are very hard and sometimes used for beads and buttons, 

 are not affected by soaking in the sea. 



Myginda rhacoma Sw. A shrub with small, opposite, leathery 

 leaves, and a small, obovate, edible berry, ripe in January. Flowers 

 small, four-parted, in axillary, peduncled cymes. Only in South- 

 ampton Parish. Florida and West Indies. 



Sophora tomentosa L. Boaz Island and South Shore. A legumi- 

 nous tree. 



Ludwigia repens Swartz. Found only in the peat bogs. Also 

 native in South Carolina, Texas, West Indies. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XI. 37 May, 1902. 



