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Governor Lefroy in Bulletin 25 of the United States National 
efroy studied the plants very enthusiastically and 
aa during his six years’ residence, and made considerable 
collections of them. The only report approximating complete- 
ness by a trained botanist, however, is the valuable paper by Mr. 
W. B. Hemsley, now Keeper of the herbarium of the Royal 
Gardens at Kew, published in the Reports of the cruise of H. M. 
S. “Challenger” in 1884, based upon collections made mainly by 
Governor Lefroy and by Moseley, the naturalist of the Challenger 
staff, who spent parts of three months in the spring, about 1873, 
collecting on the Bermudas. Hemsley discovered that the Ber- 
da fl ne (Zrigeron Darreltians), named in honor of a 
member of 3 a distinguished Bermuda family, oe the Bermuda 
sea lavender (Limonium Lefroyt [Statice fal Hemsley] ), 
i ommemorates — scientific work, were also re- 
en to Bermuda, as_ well the pane sedge (Carex 
Bermudiana);, Mr. J. G. Baker former Keeper of the Kew 
see studied the ferns ag contributed an account of them 
emsley’s work, recording the endemic status of the 
meen shield-fern (Dryopteris Bermudiana); the Bermuda 
spleenwort (Asplenium Laffantanum), named in honor of Gov- 
ernor Laffan, and of the Bermuda maiden- a fern (Adiantum 
a Mr. Mitten studied the mosses and m ut that one of 
hem (Zortula ae was in the same ee ee Thus 
ee of the native species of the islands were known to be 
peculiar to them. preliminary study of our collections jindi- 
cates that this list is not yet complete. 
The total wild land flora of the islands, exclusive of a 
lichens and algae, comprises about 200 species. ith the 
exception of the endemic elements, its inna is nae 
wholly West Indian and Floridian, which indicates that it has 
been’ mainly derived from the south and southwest, through 
natural agencies well known to ae seeds or fruits through 
long distances — migratory birds, ocean currents and hurricane 
winds. With the exception of Arigeron Darrellianus and Carex 
Bermudiana the eleven endemic species hitherto recorded have 
close relatives indigenous in the West Indies or Florida, which 
