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Harbour and Hamilton Harbour, indicating a great subsidence 

 of the original Bermuda. The timber is very durable and 

 fragrant. The tree flowers in March. 



A beautiful weeping-leaved pine from Central America, some 

 fifteen to twenty feet high and very flourishing, is in the 

 garden at "Bellevue, " Paget East, where also are some thriv- 

 ing specimens of Araucaria Excelsa, Arcarian or Norfolk pine. 



Natural Order, Cycadaceae. 



Cycas Revoluta. Thub. (sago palm. ) This shrubby tree is 

 not a true palm although resembling that family. It is almost 

 in every garden, its rough naked trunk bearing at its summit a 

 cluster of feather-like fern-shaped leaves, with slender, glossy 

 and acute leaflets, very narrow, of a dark glossy green, and in 

 innumerable pairs set close together. Its cones are hidden in 

 a large, terminal, cushion-like head. 



Monocotyledons. 



Natural Order, Orchidiee. 



Spiranthes Tortolis, Rich. (The only native orchid the 

 Islands produce. ) A plant with stem six inches to one foot 

 high. Iveaves narrow, six to eight inches long, procumbent. 

 Flowers white, one third of an inch in diameter, peculiar from 

 the spiral twist around the terminal spike, two to three inches 

 long. Pembroke marsh and a few in Devonshire, but becom- 

 ing rare. Root bulbous. April and May. It bids fair to soon 

 become extinct. 



Natural Order, Cannaceae. 



Canna Indica. I/inn. or Coccinea. Mill. (Indian shot.) 

 An erect, leafy, sturdy plant, three to five feet high. L/eaves 

 some ten inches long, four inches wide, with prominent veins, 

 oval, oblong, slender pointed, smooth, massive, sheathing the 

 stem. Flower-stalk terminal upright. Flowers two inches 

 long, red, the lip variegated with yellow or orange. Seed-pod 

 prickly, rough, three-celled; seeds round, black, shiny. Abun- 

 dant in waste corners of fields, and corners of walls. Perenni- 

 al. Summer months. 



