656 A. JE. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



crevices of ledges. In many places a troublesome weed. Said to 

 have been introduced in the latter part of the 18th century by Col. 

 Spofforth, to furnish fuel. It is very useful on the sand dunes in 

 arresting the drifting sands. (See pp. 475-6.) The flowers, which 

 are pale lilac, are abundant at most seasons. The stems are not 

 prickly. 



Red Sage ; Red-flowered Sage Bush. (Lantana cumara L.) 



Naturalized and common in most places. Native of tropical 

 America and West Indies, but said to have been brought here from 

 Madeira, about 1819. The flowers are light orange-red. 



PrickTy Sage Bush ; Yellow-flowered Sage. (Lantana crocea Jacq.) 



Naturalized and common, but less abundant than the others. The 

 flow T ers are light orange-yellow. 



Pigeon Berry. (Ditranta Plumieri Jacq.) 



A common, naturalized, tropical American shrub, of the Verbena- 

 family, with blue flowers in racemes. The plant is not prickly; leaves 

 smooth, glossy ; berries yellow, wax-like, poisonous. 



It is allied to the native Turkey Berry ( Callicarpa ferruginea), a 

 shrub which has bluish white flowers and bears large clusters of 

 round, red or magenta berries. 



Prickly Myrtle. (Clerodendron aculeatum Gr.) 



A tropical American shrub, allied to the last, naturalized on Ire- 

 land Island and elsewhere. It has white flowers, about half an inch 

 long, with exsert purple stamens. 



Another species (C. capitatum = ? Wldtfieldi Seem. ?) was found as 

 a naturalized plant about the Pembroke Workhouse, by Lefroy. 



Cassava; Cassada; Tapioca-plant. (Manihot utilissima PobI.=e7am- 

 pha manihot Kth.) See p. 525. 



Introduced about 101(5, and still cultivated. A tuberous rooted 

 euphorbiaceous shrub, with a milky poisonous sap, but yielding a 

 large amount of starchy food from the roots, by special preparation 

 (tapioca, etc.). Native of tropical South America, but early natural- 

 ized in the West Indies. 



