8 PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 



October to June. This plant appears to have been hitherto mistaken 

 for the true Seurvtj Grass {Cochleana officinalis), tvhich latter I have 

 been unable tO verify. 



IX. RAPHANUS. 



Pod with four to eight joints. 



1. R. rajyhanistrum (Wild radish). Annual. Stem one to two 

 feet, erect, hairy ; leaves four to eight inches long, lyre- shaped and 

 coarsely toothed ; racemes leafless ; sepals erect, equal ; pods one 

 to two' inches long, with an awl- shaped beak, slightly constricted 

 at the joints. Distribution, Europe, introduced into America; 

 habitat, iields. FloAvers half -inch in diameter, pale yellow ; October 

 to April. 



The garden radish {E. Sativus) ivith pale purple Jlowers is also often 

 met ivith as an escape from cultivation. 



Nat : Ord : TamaricaceiC . 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves very small, scale-lilce, overlap- 

 ping, without stipules ; flowers in axillary spike like panicles ; 

 sepals four to five, overlapping in bud ; petals four to five ; stamens 

 four to five, sometimes double that number, inserted in a glandular 

 disc ; ovary superior, one -celled ; styles three to four ; capsule 

 three-valved ; seeds many. 



I. TAMARIX. 



1. T. Gallica (Tamarisk). An evergreen shrub, eight to ten feet 

 high ; branchlets slender and feathery, leaves on the branchlets 

 extremely minute, closely overlapping, triangular and keeled, on 

 the older wood one-eighth of an inch larger, awl-shaped; flowers 

 in catkin -like, obtuse spikes, one to one and a half inches long. 

 Distribution, England and shores of the Mediterranean ; habitat, 

 liedges and avenues. Flowers pink, one-eighth of an incli in 

 diameter ; May to June. 



Introduced, a favourite fence in exposed or sandy situations, very hand- 

 some and not injured by salt spray. 



JYat : Ord: CaryophyllaceM. 



Herbs Avith swollen joints. Leaves quite entire, in opposite 

 pairs ; sepals live, sometimes united into a five -toothed calyx ; 

 petals five, inserted under the ovary (absent in Sagina) ; stamens 

 usually ten, inserted with the petals ; seeds many, small, granu- 

 late. The Pink {Dianthus caryophylhis) and the Sweet William 

 {D. Barbatus) will be found cultivated in flower gardens. 



Sepals united, forming a five-toothed inflated calyx. 



1. S. Gallica. An annual, hairy, viscid plant; stem one to two 

 feet, erect, branched ; leaves oblong, spoon-shaped ; flowers in 

 leafy, one-sided racemes ; calyx with ten broad nerves and five 

 bristly teeth ; petals five, nearly entire, furnished with small scales ; 

 stamens ten; styles tliree; capsule ovoid, three-celled at base, 



