164 A. EF. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 576 
The remainder are as follows :— 
Spermacoce tenuior Lam. Button | Peperomia magnoliefolia* (=P. 
Weed. Annual. obtusifolia in Lef.) A succu- 
Arenaria alsinoides Willd. | lent-leaved plant. Fig. 35. 
Callicarpa ferruginea. “Turkey-| Statice Lefroyi Hemsl.=(S. Caro- 
berry.” liniana Lef.) Sea Lavender. 
(Endemic.) 
The last named species and two of the ferns appear to be endemic. 
It is not improbable that the Zpomcea and the Sicyos were both intro- 
duced by man, though there is no evidence of this. Lefroy consid- 
ered them native. The White Jasmine (Jasminum gracile), which 
thickly covers the rocks and drapes the cedars to their very tops, in 
parts of this tract, is known to have been introduced there about a 
century ago, but it has not spread elsewhere to any marked extent. 
Hemsley also classed the Passiflora as an introduced species, but 
without any particular evidence. 
A few species were found only on Boaz Island, about twenty-five 
years ago, in a place that had not then been much disturbed. 
Whether they still exist there is not known. Several species, mostly 
ferns, are not known to occur except in some particular spots in some 
of the marshes, especially in Pembroke Marsh. Many of these very 
localized species will probably disappear before many years. One 
endemic species of sedge (Carex Bermudiana Hemsl.) is known only 
from specimens collected, about 1699, by John Dickinson (Sloane 
Herb.). It may now be extinct. 
Among the plants entirely restricted to certain marshes, or nearly 
so, or to other limited localities, are the following :— 
Waltheria Americana L. Pembroke Marsh. A shrubby, downy 
plant 2-3 feet high, with clusters of small yellow flowers. In all 
tropical countries. 
* Hemsley states that the correct name of the Bermuda plant is somewhat 
uncertain. My photograph shows that it does not agree well with the descrip- 
tions of P. magnoliefolia and P. umplexicaulis (considered varieties of one 
species by him and others), for both these West Indian forms are described as 
having sessile or subsessile leaves, while they are petiolate in the Bermuda plant. 
A specimen labelled as P. magnolicefolia, from southern Florida, in the Eaton 
herbarium, agrees in this respect with the Bermuda plant. Some of the several 
Cuban forms of P. obtusifolia, in the same herbarium, which I have studied, 
have petiolate leaves of the same form as those of the Bermuda variety. There- 
fore the latter may rather belong to a variety of P. obtusifolia, if this be really 
a distinct species. But in that case the Florida form probably belongs to the 
same variety. 
