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The Flora of Bermuda.*—In a handy volume of 585 pages, 
Dr. Britton has given a comprehensive account of the flora of 
Bermuda, or the Bermudas, which form an isolated group of 
six larger islands, and about sixty smaller ones, or cays, as 
well as many rocks or ledges, situated about 568 nautical miles 
east of Cape Hatteras, and consist of limestone, with man 
caves, resting on volcanic rocks. The islands, whose total land 
ica ; 
cent. of the total native flora of 709 species (including apr fate 
gamia) is regarded as endemic. The number of flowering plant 
species. Mosses and hepaticae are represented by 51 species, 
lichens by 238, and fungi (still incompletely known) by 175. In 
addition to these 709 species, there are 303 others, which have 
been introduced through human activities, and have become com- 
States.’’ 
Visit of the Royal English Arboricultural Society.—On 
Thursday, September 12th, 55 members of the Royal English 
Arboricultural Society visited the gardens for the purpose of 
Gate and after being shown a r are trees near the 
Pagoda proceeded to the Larch collection, where they were 
specially interested in Larix occidentalis. seeing the 
* Flora of Bermuda, by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Ph.D., Se.D., LL.D. 
New York, 1918. 
