176 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
SEA BotttE—May, 1849. That very curious marine 
plant, commonly designated the “sea bottle,” has been 
common on the sands during the whole of this month. 
These “sea bottles” are transparent, and shaped lke a 
small balloon; the largest measuring about one inch in 
length. The inside is filled with sea water, sometimes per- 
fectly clear, at others deeply tinged with green, arising from 
small particles of sea weed which have become hermetically 
sealed up with the confined water. I have sometimes found 
these bottles washed on shore in small clusters, as if they 
had sprung from the surface of some submerged rock. They 
are without leaves or branches.—J. L. H. 
MusHroom.—March 2nd, 1852. Mr. Barss came to me 
this morning with a fine specimen of the mushroom, 
(Agaricus campestris,) in his hand, which had been gathered 
by Mr. Thomas Hall upon his own ground. Though resi- 
dent in the Bermudas upwards of eleven years, I was not 
aware, until now, that the mushroom was known here. Mr. 
Hall tells me he has noticed them for many years at this 
season, growing wild on the same spot,* and that he has 
seen as many as a dozen at one time, some of them as wide 
as the palm of his hand. 
Might not the cultivation of this fungus be turned to 
good account in a winter gardening climate like this? As- 
paragus, one would suppose, would also thrive here, and yet 
I have never met with it—J. L. H. 
* A grassy bank between the east wall of Pembroke Churchyard and the 
adjoining marsh. 
