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This plant is very apt to be, and often is, confounded with 

 the following w^hich it resembles except for the colouring of 

 the flowers and flower bracts. 



Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis. Valil. (vervain.) An erect 

 growing plant, one to two feet high, or more. Stem shrubby 

 Ht base and tough, slightly hairy. Leaves two to three inches 

 long, ovate, serrate, with purplish veins. Flower-stalks some- 

 what flattened, towering, naked, bearing deep blue flowers, 

 one-third of an inch long, numerous along the spikes, common 

 amidst stone heaps and by roadsides. Annual and Perennial. 

 Summer months. 



L/ippia Nodiflolia. Rich, (capeweed.) This is one of the 

 most widely distributed plants in Bermuda, being nearly uni- 

 versally so. It is a prostrate plant, stems many feet in length, 

 rooting at the joints. Leaves clean and dense, lance-shaped, 

 one inch long and half an inch wide. Flower-stalks rise erect 

 two or three inches, bearing a dense round bead of purplish- 

 white flowers a half-inch in diameter. Neglected ground, 

 moist preferred, but common everywhere. Perennial. Sum- 

 mer months. 



I am told that the leaves of this plant were used by the earl}' 

 settlers as a substitute for tea. 



Lippia Reptans. H. B. K. Cited by Lefroy as Godet'sweed, 

 a name given also to an Artemesia. 



Lantana Crocea. Jacq. (prickly sagebush.) An erect 

 bush}' shrub, very branching, stems angular, with rough hairy 

 branchlets. Leaves two to three inches long, ovate, pointed, 

 serrate, aromatic. Flower-stalks two inches long, heads al- 

 most flat, flowers yellow,, changing to orange-red, one inch or 

 more in diameter. A favourite hot-house shrub North, being 

 a perpetual flowerer as it is here. Found universally along 

 stony ridges and walls. All the year round. 



Lantana Odorata. Linn, (common sagebush. ) A smaller 

 species than the preceding, about four feet high. Leaves 

 small, one to one and a half inch long, serrate, rough on both 

 surfaces. Flower— stalks two inches long, flowers pale" pink, 

 throats yellow, one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. 



