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Natural Order, Myricaceae. 



Myrica Cerifera. Ivinn. (bay berry, candle berry myrtle.) 

 An erect bushy shrub, three to six feet high, with numerous 

 leafy branches. Leaves present a dry or withered appearance, 

 dotted brown underneath, oblong, wedge-shaped, entire, two 

 to three inches long, and one-half to three-quarters of an inch 

 wide. Flowers dirty-white, followed by dense clusters of 

 berries size of a small pea, granular, and coated with white, 

 fragrant wax from which candles can be made. Marshes. 

 Summer. 



Natural Order, Salicineae. 



Salix Babylonica. L/inn. (weeping willow. ) A few of these 

 trees were introduced in 1830, and cuttings therefrom now 

 developed into trees may be seen in private grounds, but by 

 no means commonly. Damp soils are necessary for the full 

 development of the tree. 



Class III: Gymnospermae. 



Natural Order, Coniferae or Pinaceae. 



Juniperus Bermudiana. Ivinn. (Bermuda Cedar. ) A large 

 evergreen tree mentioned by the early discoverers as covering 

 the islands. Leaves very small, scale-like, densely overlapp- 

 ing in four rows, channelled on the back. Flowers or catkins 

 oblong, cylindrical, half an inch long, followed by a purple 

 berry, the size of a pea. The male catkins in Spring scatter 

 clouds of pollen over the female trees which then fructify and 

 perfect the berry. Its abundance everywhere makes it almost 

 wearisome in its sombre monotony. Lefroy accounts for its 

 universality by "its success in the struggle for existence, due 

 to its power of withstanding the gales of wind for which the 

 Bermudas have always been famous," as well as the little re- 

 sistance offered by its foliage, toughness of wood and root- 

 power in the rock interstices. Formerh- it attained a greater 

 size than at present, as evidenced by the trunks dredged up in 

 the Sound. In the Camber at the Dockyard, when dredging 

 or excavating for the floating-dock, cedar wood was found 

 forty-seven feet below low-water mark, and well preserved 

 trunks have been found at three to five fathoms depth in Elys 



