JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. VI. October, 1905. No. 70. 
BERMUDA IN SEPTEMBER. 
To Tue Scientiric Direcrors. 
Gentlemen: By permission of the President I visited the Ber- 
muda Islands in September for the purposes of making some study 
of the land flora of the archipelago and of its relationship to that 
of the West. Indies and that of the Southern States, and for 
obtaining specimens and plants to illustrate it in our collections, 
which hitherto had contained very little material from this inter- 
esting isolated group of islands. I was aa ed by Mrs. 
Britton and by Mr. Stewardson Brown, Cur. of Botany in the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of pean a through their 
aid was enabled to secure the largest botanical collection that has 
yet been brought from Bermuda. We were absent from August 
29 to September 22. Previous students of the Bermudian flora 
had demonstrated the fact that a number of the wild plants of 
the islands were endemic, ee Se in the feral oe no- 
where else in the world; this wa cognized, indeed, by Lin- 
Bermuda red cedar (/uniperus Bermudiana); the Bermuda blue- 
he ee s (Sisyrinchiu sellin aaa: ; and of the Bermuda 
bedstraw (Galium Bermudianum) ; 1829, Glazebrook ascer- 
ae ne the Bermuda palmetto (Sabal Bara was 
different from the palmetto of the South Atlantic Coast and the 
Bahamas, although he did not know that it was wild there. 
number of popular accounts of the flora were published from 
1845 to 1884, the most noteworthy of these being the paper by 
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