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REVIEWS 



Britton's Flora of Bermuda"^ 



In the bibliography which is an appendix to this newest volume 

 by Dr. Britton, the statement is made that O. A. Reade's "Plants 

 of the Bermudas," 1885, is the only descriptive flora of the island 

 heretofore published. That book lists about 150 plants native 

 and naturalized, while the present flora contains 165 flowering 

 plants, ferns and their allies, the rest of the total number of 709 

 species now credited to the island being found among so-called 

 cryptogamous groups. Of the 61 truly Bermudian (endemic) 

 species, 4 are monocotyledons, six are dicotyledons, one is a 

 Juniper, and 4 are ferns. All the rest are among the Mosses, 

 Hepatics, Lichens and Fungi. 



There are keys and descriptions of all the plants known from 



* Britton, X. L. Flora of Bermuda. Pp. 1-585. Illustrated. Chas. Scribner 

 & Co., N. Y. 28 February 1918. Price S4.50. 



