40 PLA.NTS OF BERMUDA. 



1. Astei' (Species?). A smooth, perennial plant, half shrubby at 

 the spreading base ; leaves three to four inches long, three-quarters 

 of an inch broad, somewhat rosulate, shining green, oblanceolate, 

 acute, tapering at the base into a short-winged petiole, lower spar- 

 ingly but sharplj' toothed, upper lanceolate, sessile, entire ; heads 

 cylindrical, numerous in rather naked corymbs ; bracts closely im- 

 bricate, three to four seriate, linear, -with membranaceous margins ; 

 rays short, pure white, fifty to sixty, in two rows, but slightly ex- 

 ceeding the bracts ; style arms {in perfect florets) shortly lanceolate ; 

 pappus simple, White. 



The above does not appear to correspond with any of the North 

 American Asters ; it is common on rocky banks and by waysides 

 throughout the Islands, except Somerset and Ireland. I find the 

 same plant among some dried sjDCcimens left here by Governor 

 Lefroy, marked "Aster or Erigeron new? " — it appears to be a true 

 Aster. Heads quarter-inch in diameter ; April to August. 



III. EiaOEKOX. 



Heads many -flowered ; disk florets yellow^ tubular ; rays very numerous^ 

 ivhltc or purple. Bracts equal, narrow, nearly in one row ; recejdaclc flat, 

 smooth or dotted ; pappus a single series of rough bristles or with a second 

 shorter series. Flowers of no beauty v-ith exception of No. 5. 



1. E. Canndense (Fleabane). An annual, erect plant; stem wiry, 

 one to three feet high, much branched above, rough, hairy and 

 furrowed ; leaves two to three inches long, quarter-inch wide, nar- 

 row lanceolate, the lower slightly serrate, upper very narrow, entire, 

 rough ciliato on margins. Heads small paniculate ; bracts narrow, 

 blunt, longer than the many- crowded, insignificant florets ; pappus 

 simple, straw-coloured. Distribution, North America; habitat, a 

 troublesome weed very common in cultivated ground and waysides. 

 Heads white, one -sixth of an inch ; June to August. 



2. E. Pusillum is a dwarf state of the above variable plant, when 

 growing on barren rocky ground ; stem then frequently onl}" six 

 inches high, and all parts reduced in proportion. 



3. E. bonariensis. An annual, erect, leafy plant, all x)arts clothed 

 vnt]x long, soft hairs ; stem striate, one to three feet liigh, branched 

 above ; leaves lanceolate, one-third to half-inch -wide, the loAver 

 irregularly toothed or sinuate pinnatifid, the upper entire. Heads 

 small in an irregular panicle ; bracts slender, pointed, tipped with 

 purple, longer than the many «lender florets ; pappus simple, tawny. 

 Distribution, South America and West Indies ; habitat, common, 

 waysides and cultivated ground. Heads white, one-third of an 

 inch ; May to August. 



I. E. annuum. Annual, stem erect, stout, three to four feet high, 

 very leafy from the base, at length branched, striate, hairy ; leaves 

 four to six inches long, one to one and a half inches vade, shining, 

 sparuigly hairy, coarsely and sharply toothed in the middle, ovate 

 or ovate lanceolate, tapering into a slender-winged petiole ; upper- 

 most sub-entire ciliatc. Heads in a large, scattered x^anicle ; bracts 

 half the length of the many narrow florets ; pappus double. Dis- 



