88 PLANTS Of BERMUDA. 



Sepals three, persistent, on summit of ovary ; petals six, narrow, un- 

 equal ; stamens three, petal-like, one bearing a long, narrow anther cell, 

 ■which adheresby half its length ; another {the cup) frequently recurved. 



1. C. coccinea (Caue Shot). 8teni erect, leafy, three to five feet 

 high ; leaves about ten inches long and four wide, slieathing at the 

 base, with prominent parallel veins, ovate-oblong, slender pointed, 

 smooth, quite entire ; racemes terminal, enclosed in spathe-like 

 bracts ; petals strap- shaped, the lip reflexed, emarginate ; capsule 

 rough, prickly, three-celled, cells about three-seeded ; seeds round, 

 black, shining. Distribution, West Indies ; habitat, waste places 

 and in gardens. Flowers two inches long, red, the lip variegated 

 with yellow ; August to October. 



Canna edulis, from the tubers of which an inferior kind of Arrow- 

 root is manufactured in some countries, is here often cultivated as 

 an ornamental garden plant ; it resembles the former in general, 

 but the flowers are entirely red. A variety of the latter, with purple 

 stained leaves and stem {G. discolor), is occasionally seen. C. glanca, 

 which is met with both in gardens and as an escape, has entirely 

 yellow flowers and its foliage has a whitish appearance. 



^^at : Ord : 72. Juncaceic. 



Grass-like plants with slender leaves and withered- looking flow- 

 ers ; periantli scaly, six-parted, in two series, persistent, regular ; 

 stamens six, arising from beneath the ovary ; styles three ; capsule 

 three-celled, seeds very numerous. 



1. /. tenuis (Rush). Perennial, stem slender, wiry, erect, six to 

 eighteen inches high, leafy at the base only ; leaves narrow, nearly 

 as long as the stem ; flowers single, distant, nearly sessile along 

 one side of the unequal divisions of a terminal panicle, supported 

 by one to three leaf-like bracts ; sepals lanceolate, exceeding the 

 ovoid capsule. Distribution, United States and Jamaica ; habitat, 

 marshes. Flowers greenish. 



Nat : Ord : 73. Musuceiv. 



Tree -like plants with simple stems formed by the sheathing 

 petioles of the large entire leaves ; flowers in clusters (hands) in the 

 axils of large deciduous bracts, alternating along a woody spadix ; 

 perianth superior, unequal, in two series of three leaves each ; 

 stamens six, some always abortive ; ovary inferior, three- celled, 

 many-seeded. 



The Banana and Plantain are cultivated in Bermuda, as in all 

 warm countries, and tlicir graceful ijalm-likc appearance adds not 

 a little to the tropical aspect of the Islands. The variety most 

 frequently grown is the Dwarf Banana {Musa Cavcndishii), which 



