THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 101 



LXXXIX. — Chenopodibje. 



Ghenopodium anthelminticum, Linu. Goosefoot family. 



A coarse, strong-smelling, perennial wee4; probably native; found 

 among rocks and roadsides. Common in West Indies and United 

 States. From ken, Gr., a goose, and pous, foot; in allusion to the form 

 of the leaves. 



C. amhrosioides, Linn. 



An annual weed in cultivated ground; probably from West Indies. 

 Nati'Ve of Mexico. 



G. album, Linn. 



An annual weed in cultivated ground; from Southern United States 

 (uot West Indies). 



Atriplex cristata, H. B. {Ohione cristata, Moquin.) Sea orache. 



An erect herbaceous plant common along the north shores, e. g., near 

 the ducking stool, where its spikes of minute male flowers are con- 

 spicuous in August and September. The female flowers, which are 

 sessile in the axils of the branchlets, very minute, star-shaped, and of a 

 grayish green color, appear rather later, in small groups of 2-4 flowers. 

 The plant generally is scurfy, of grayish tint, 6" up to 2' high. From 

 a privative, Gr., and trafein^ to nourish. 



SaUvornia fruticosa, Linn. Var. Marsh Sampphire; Glass wort. 



Abundant in salt marshes; stem i)rostrate or creeping; branches suc- 

 culent, leafless, cylindrical, erect, jointed, 6 in. to 1^ ft. high ; flowers in 

 May. *S'. ambigna, Michx., in Rein's list. S. herbacea, Linn., in Lane's list. 

 From sal, salt ; comu a horn, Lat. 



Beta ndgaris, Linn. Beetroot. 



In gardens, and cultivated, but to no great extent, for exportation to 

 New York. 



XC. — BASELLiE. 



Boiisfiingaultia baselloides, HBK. 



Grew luxuriantly over a veranda at Mount Laugton, but was acci- 

 dentally destroyed. I afterwards found it at a cottage on David's 



Island. 



XCI. — Laurine^. 



Bersea gratissima, Gaertn. Avocada or Alligator pear. 



Common, and very fine. It is more prized by Bermudians than any 

 other fruit. A tree at Mount Langton, planted about 1835, is now the 



