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high, with long, slender, rose-coloured blos- 

 soms found along waysid-^s and on barren 

 rocky hills, very common 



Nightsh de (Solanum Aculeatissimum)— A. 

 pricklj'' shrub two to three feet high, with 

 spreading branches armed with prickles. The 

 flower is white followed by a very poisonous 

 orange-coloured berry. It is found more in 

 woods than in the open, but is not very com- 

 mon. Another species (S. Nigrum) Black 

 nightshade, closelj' resemblet the former, but 

 its thorns are not so formidable. Its flower 

 is white, followed by a small black berry of a 

 poisonous quality. It is a common plant, 

 frpsquenting waste places and old gardens 



Cardinal Flower (Salvia Coccinea) is of a 

 herbaceous nature with crenate leaves hoary 

 beneath, and produces a brilliant scarlet 

 raceme of flowers Its brilliant colour cannot 

 fail to attract notice, and it is a common 

 plant on dry banks, and waysides. It is es- 

 teemed in England as a showy garden flower, 

 Reade, in his botany, mentions another 

 species (S. Serotina) with a white flower, and 

 similar in growth to the former, but although 

 carefully looked for, I have failed to And it. 



Rospmary (Rosmarinus Officinalis)— A fra- 

 grant leaved shrub, with hoary leaves and 

 blue flowers. It grows with a stem one to 

 two feet high, much branched. Although 

 scattered over the island, it is most abundant 

 on St. David's Island, especially on rocky 

 hills. 



Pigeon Berry (Duranta Plumieri)— A shrub 

 from six to twelve feet high, with smooth, 

 glossy leaves, and often pendant branches, is 

 a favourite ornament in shrubberies and gar- 

 dens, its waxlike yellow berries being very 

 conspicuous. Its flowers, blue in colour, 

 hang in long leafless racemes, gracefully 



