250 JONES — ON THE VEGETATION OP THE BERMUDAS. 



varieties. The common lemon grows wild every where, but 

 not in such abundance as before the disease of 1854-5, which 

 attacked the lemon as well as the orange. Thousands of fine 

 trees before that date existed throughout the cedar groves, and 

 the fruit was so abundant that it only ripened to fall and rot 

 upon the ground. A variety known as the ^' Lisbon Lemon," 

 is cultivated and more highly esteemed than others. 



C. MEDicA, X. " Citron." Hab. Asia. 



CooKiA PUNCTATA, Retz. *' Wampcc Tree." 



LlMONlA CRENULATA, D. (7. 

 MURRYA EXOTICA, L. 



GERANIACE^. 



Geeanium pusillum, L, Hab. Europe ; IST. America. 



G. ? Varieties cultivated. 



Pelargonium ? Hab. S. Africa. 



BALSAMINACE^. 



Impatiens hortensis. 



OXALIDACE^. 



OxALis CORNICULATA, L. (O. stricta, 8w.) Hab. Europe; 

 N. America. Rich moist ground. Not common : Flowers end 

 of March. 



ZYGOPHYLLACE^. 



GuAJAcuM OFFICINALE, L. " Arbor-vitse." ' * Guayacan " of the 

 Spanish West Indies. Hab. W. Indies and Central America. 

 Melianthus major, D. C. Hab. C. G. H. 



SIMARUBACEiE. 



Quassia amara, L. *' Gall Tree" of Barbados. 



ANACARDIACEiE. 



Khus toxicodendron, L. "Poison Vine." "Poison Oak." 

 Hab. N. America. Common in thickets, mouths of caverns, 

 &c., especially on some of the islands of the Great Sound. It 

 is strange that this plant should prove so poisonous to some 



