THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 



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the liDife, and never manured — a neglect which fully accounts for the 

 poor quality of the fruit. 



An interesting example of the diffusion of plants was afforded by the 

 foundering of the ship Minnie Breslauer, on January G, 1S73, on the 

 soutli shore. She had a cargo of white Lisbon grapes, many of which 

 were washed on shore and germinated at high-water mark. Numbers 

 of plants were, from curiosity, taken up and transplanted, some of which 

 bore fruit in 187G. 



The vine flowers in February; bears in July. 



The following comparison of the approximate mean temperature of 

 t he vine-growing region of Madeira (below 2,000 feet) with that of Ber- 

 muda (below 200 feet) makes the essential difference of the two climates 

 very apparent. 



MoDth 



Madeira. 



Bermuda. 



Jannaiv i 61. 9t 



rebruarj i 62. 7t 



March 64. Ot 



A pril 56. 3- to 67. It 



Way t 56.7*lo68.4t 



J uiic 60. 2* to 68. 2t 



63. 3J 

 63. Ot 

 63.3* 

 66.5: 



70. 4; 

 76. Ot 



Month. 



Madeira. 



Jnlv 64. 4* to 70. U 



Angust . 

 September 

 October . . . 

 November . 

 December . 



65. 5* to 71. Ot 

 65. 8* to 70. 9t 

 63. 0* to 68. 7t 

 59. 5* to 65. Ot 

 62. 6t 



Bermuda. 



60. 8J 

 81. 7J 

 79.8: 

 73.71 

 68.6: 

 64.3: 



•* DeCnndolle, G6ogr. botaniqne, I, p. 387. These are the approximate temperatures at the upper 

 limit OC676'", or 'J.OOO fc.t. 



tTeniptTatiiicH toward the sea-level or at the lower limit, from Dr. M. C. Grabham, on the Climate 

 .and Resouices of Madiira, 1870. 



; By inteiiKilation. 



Ampclopsis (pdnquefolia, Michx. Virginian creeper; Sarsaparilla. 

 This plant is to be found wild about the caves of Walsingham. 



Ampclopsis tridentata, Thun. 



Introduced in 1875 and doing well at Mount Langton. 



Cissus discolor^ Blum. 



This beautiful creeper flourishes with great luxuriance at Mount 

 Langton, under glass, lovsing its leaves regularly in the winter. A 

 specimen was also fonnd in a garden at Saint George's, unprotected, but 

 it barely lived through the winters. 



XXXVL— Sapindace^. 



Cardiospermion Halicacabum, Linn. Small shot. 



This pretty little creeper is common in the Walsingham tract, and 

 rarely met with elsewhere; native. Common to Africa and America. 



Cnpa n ia fulva, Mart. 



A single tree is to be found at Spanish Point, where it flowers very 

 freely iu July ; native of the West Indies. Introduced. 



