252 JONES ON THE VEGETATION OF THE BERMUDAS. 



KUTACEiE. 

 KuTA GEAVEOLENS, D. C. Hab. S. Europe. 



AlLANTHUS GLANDULOSUS, D, 0. 



XANTHOXYLACE^. 



Xanthoxylum ? 



LEGUMINOS^. 



Medicago lupulina, L. "Clover." This little plant is very 

 common throughout the islands, more especially on pasture 

 lands. It forms a very nutritious fodder where herbage is 

 scarce, as it always is on the porous calcareous soil of these is- 

 lands. It thrives in the shallowest soil, and its small yellow 

 flower may be seen even on the rocky slopes where the merest 

 scrap of earth affords the plant a rooting place. Horses and 

 cows are very fond of it, clipping it as close as their teeth will 

 allow. It was one of the few plants mentioned by Michaux on 

 his visit to the Bermudas in 1806. 



Melilotus ornciNALis, Willd, " Melilot." This plant grows 

 freely in different parts of the islands, especially in the valleys 

 where a good depth of rich soil prevails. Strange to say, in a 

 country like Bermuda where forage is so scarce and expensive, 

 no effort has been hitherto made to lay down pasture land on 

 which to grow this and the foregoing plant mixed with grasses. 

 I have observed it growing in favourable situations at least three 

 feet in height, where the common grass of the islands was only 

 of diminutive size. 



Spaktium junceum, Z).(7. "Broom." Hab. S.Europe. This 

 shrub has been lately introduced by Governor Lefroy, and is 

 growing well. Apart from the pretty appearance its bright 

 yellow blossoms will present amid the sombre foliage of the all- 

 prevailing cedar scrub, its peculiar property of binding together 

 drifting sand, will render it of great value on the southern shores 

 of the islands. 



RoBiNiA Pseudacacia, jC. " White Acacia." Hab. N.America. 



R. DUBIA. 



Wistaria frdtescens, D. Q, Hab. S. States. 



Ulex europjeus, L, var. stricta. "Furze," or "Gorse." The 



