280 JONES ON THE VEGETATION OF THE BERMUDAS. 



men all over North America is equally so in the marshes of 

 Bermuda, where with the sedge and dog-bush it forms dense 

 thickets, making a noble covert for the rails and galinules that 

 visit the islands in the winter season. 



Adiantum CAPiLLUS- VENERIS, X. Hab. Europe. ^'Maiden-hair." 

 Grows in profusion in all the shady nooks and corners of the 

 rocks, old buildings, &c. Caverns have their entrances lined 

 with this pretty form, and even the road side ditches are draped 

 with its delicate fronds. 



A. Farlayense. 



A. CUNEATUM, 8preng. Hab. Brazil. 



ASPLENIUM BIJIDA. 



A. cicuTARiUM, Haw, Hab. S. America. 

 A. MONANTHEMUM, Willd. Hab. C. G. H. 

 A. Shepherdii, Sprencf. Hab. East Indies. 



Cystopteris ? 



AsPiDiuM ACULEATUM, Sw. Hab. Temperate and tropical regions. 



A. PATENS, Sw. (A molle, Kunz.) 



A. MOLLE, 8w. (A. sclerophyllum, Unt. — A tetragonum, Hooh.) 



Hab. All tropical countries. 

 A. EXALTATUM, Sw. (Polypodium, L. — Nephrolepis, Schott.) 



Hab. Tropics of both hemispheres. 

 Onychium japonicum. 

 OsMUNDA REGALis, Ij. (O. spectabilis, Willd.) Hab. Europe 



and America. 

 O. ciNNAMOMEA, Zi. Hab. N. America. 



O. PALTJSTRIS. 



Note. — In the " Annales du Museum d' Histoire Naturale " for 1807, occurs a very 

 interesting account of the unintentional visit of the celebrated French botanist Francis 

 Andre Michaux to the Bermudas, He set sail from Bourdeaux on Feb. 5, 1806 for 

 Charleston, his intention being to explore the Southern States of America. On March 

 23, the vessel vas captured by H. M. S. " Leander," and sent to Halifax, Michaux 

 being the only passenger, who was allowed the privilege of going on board the Leander, 

 where he seems to have received every attention from Captain Wetheby, her com- 

 mander. Arriving at the Bermudas on April 7, they remained there tight days, and 

 Michaux was allowed to go on shore. He gives a fair account of the general appear- 

 ance of the islands, but his flora is very meagre, only comprising the followicg species: 

 Juniperus Bermudiana; Verbascum thapsus; Anagallis arvensis ; Leontodon tarax- 

 acum; Plantago major ; Urtica urens ; Gentiana nana; Oxalis acetosella. The 

 " Sage bush " is mentioned, but not identified; also a species of Verbena and a Medi- 

 cago. He appears to have regretted his inability to procure ripe berries of the cedar 

 owing to his visit being during the flowering season, as it was his desire to have intro- 

 duced the tree into the island of Corsica and the southern departments of France 

 "which border upon the Mediterranean. 



