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A. E. Verrill — Tlie Bermuda Islands. 



Town, where few other plants will grow. Its stems are straggling, 

 crooked, and more or less procumbent, and its thick, leathery, smooth, 

 obovate leaves, which grow in close terminal tufts, seem to be proof 

 against the injurious effects of salt spray. 



It bears rather curious white flowers, looking as if slit open on one 

 side. The berries are as large as a small grape, smooth, black, and 

 have a very disagreeable taste. The juice makes a nearly indelible 

 black stain, and is said to be sometimes used for marking linen. 



It is also native of the tropical coasts of America, Africa, and 

 Asia. 



Sea Lavender. (Statice Lefroyi Hems.) 

 Hernsley, Voy. Challenger, Bot., i, p. 47, pi. iv. 

 Salt marshes at Walsingham. Endemic. 



Sea Turnstole. (Heliotropum curassavicum L.) 



A native plant growing on the salt marshes. It bears twin flower- 

 spikes, curving over in opposite directions. 



Sea Lavender. (Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. B.) 



Figure 38. 



Figxire 38.— Sea Lavender (Tournpfortia gnaphalodes E. B.) 



A native shrub, common on the South Shore near the sea. Its 

 leaves are silky and hoary-gray, narrow, elongated, and are crowded 

 toward the tips of the branches. The flowers are white or pinkish, 

 in small, downy, one-sided, curved spikes. The corolla is 5 or G lobed, 

 fleshy and plicate, downy outside. 



