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Flatts Bridge, North. It is not common. May and June. 

 The name "cedar" is a misnomer, the tree having nothing in 

 common with the cedar proper. 



Tecoraa Stans. Juss. (trumpet flower. ) A shrub some ten 

 feet high with pinnate leaves, serrate, the leaflets being large 

 and with numerous bright yellow flowers. It is to be seen in 

 man}' gardens and one shrub grows in the open near the Pub- 

 lic or Kxperimental Gardens, in Paget East. Summer. 



Natural Order, Acanthaceae. 



Justicia Alba; Roxb. , and Justicia lucida, (Nees.) Both 

 shrubby plants, one with white flowers, the other with red 

 flowers. The}^ are the only wild species under this Order and 

 are evidently garden escapes. They are not unlike the Clero- 

 dendron, except that the flowers instead of being in a head are 

 at the terminal extremity of the shrub. Not common. Pere- 

 nnial Summer months. 



Natural Order, Verbenaceae. 



Verbena Chamaedrifolia (common verbena.) This in differ- 

 ent colours, especially the purple variety, is a garden escape, 

 but has so spread over the islands that some fields are tinged 

 with the colour of the flower. The flower-spike of the garden 

 verbena is contracted so that the clusters appear level-topped. 

 Perennial. Chiefly May and June. 



Verbena Bonariensis. (purple verbena. ) Has rough, point" 

 ed leaves clasping the stem margin, armed with small spiny 

 teeth. Flower stalks lengthen out one to two feet high, above 

 in threes, some two to three inches long. Flowers a deep 

 purple. Not very common. Waysides and fields. Perennial. 



Verbena Urticaefolia. R. P. (wild verbena.) A roughly 

 grown plant with stem two feet high, long slender branches, 

 wrinkled and nettle-like leaves, coarsely serrate. Flowers 

 small, scattered along slender spreading curved branches of a 

 compound spike. They are small, one-sixth of an inch, but 

 being numerous although the lower ones shed before the mid- 

 dle and end ones open, present a pinkish- white appearance. 

 Waysides and waste ground. Perennial. Summer months. 



