BUT A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 165 
Melochia odorata L. Pembroke Marsh. A rare tree ; native of the 
Pacific Islands. 
Pluchea camphorata DC. Marshes. 
Pluchea odorata Cass. Marsh Flea-bane; Wild Tobacco. Pembroke 
Marsh. A composite shrub. West Indies; Central America. 
Pluchea purpurascens DC. Shelly Bay Swamp and near Warwick 
Pond. Annual. Florida; Mexico; West Indies. 
Kosteletzkya Virginica Pres]. Pembroke Marsh. A rare, East- 
American, herbaceous, malvaceous plant, 2-4 feet high. The 
lower leaves are mostly ovate or cordate and three-lobed, upper 
ones entire. Flowers purple, in terminal racemes. 
Figure 30.—Peperomia magnolicefolia (?); Bermuda variety. From life. 
Pavonia spinifee Cay. Burr Bush. Southampton only. 
Sapindus saponaria L. Soap-berry Tree. Rare. The black seeds, 
which are very hard and sometimes used for beads and buttons 
are not affected by soaking in the sea. 
Myginda rhacoma Sw. <A shrub with small, opposite, leathery 
leaves, and a small, obovate, edible berry, ripe in January. Flowers 
small, four-parted, in axillary, peduncled cymes. Only in South- 
ampton Parish. Florida and West Indies. 
Sophora tomentosa L. Boaz Island and South Shore. A legumi- 
nous tree. 
Ludwigia repens Swartz. Found only in the peat bogs. Also 
native in South Carolina, Texas, West Indies. 
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Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. XI. 37 May, 1902. 
