PLANTS OF BERMUDA lOS 



three to four ieet iiigli ; leaves twice pinnate, smootli, pale green ; 

 leaflets distant, oblong-ovate, acute, obscurely serrate, about an inch 

 in length and one-third of an inch wide ; fertile leaves unaltered 

 below, but the upper leaflets are contracted and bear the clusters of 

 spores in the form of a panicle. Distribution, Europe and North 

 America; habitat, Devonshire marshes. 



2. 0. cumamomei. Growing in clusters three to five feet high ; 

 fertile and barren leaves distinct ; barren, pinnate, bearing tufts of 

 yellowish wool at the base of leaflets ; leaflets opposite, three to four 

 inches long, half -inch wide, deeply pinnatifid ; segments oblong, 

 blunt, entire ; fertile leaves shorter, the leaflets all contracted, 

 clothed, as well as the petiole, with loose, yellowish wool, and 

 thickly covered with the small, roundish capsules. Distribution, 

 United States and West Indies ; habitat, Devonshire marshes, 

 very common. 



Few other orders of flowerless plants are represented in Bermuda. 

 A small, wiry plant fFsilotnm triquctrum) , with erect, forked branches 

 and minute scaly leaves, the spores contained in sessile, three-lobed 

 spore cases, is found occasionally, from Causeway to Paynter's Vale. 



A small moss (Tortula muraUsJ is common, forming a green, velvet - 

 like mantle on old walls and wayside banks ; the thread-like stems 

 bear little urns, which contain the spores. 



Lichens are very poorly represented, one species of Feltidia being 

 found on old walls, and two species of Cemmyce on decaying vegeta- 

 tion in the marshes. 



Amongst the Fungi, the edible mushroom fAgancus campestrisj 

 appears to be generally distributed, but nowhere plentiful. At 

 least six other species of Agariciis seem to be indigenous, two of 

 which, one with a yellow, the other with a red pileus or cap, appear 

 in abundance after rain around the base of the cedars. A jelly - 

 like species (Trcmclla intumeseensj springs up amongst the grass in 

 great abundance in wet weather. 



