THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 45 
acetosella. The “sage brush” is mentioned, but not identified; also a 
species of Verbena and a Medicago. 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 introduced the 
tree into the island of Corsica and the southern departments of France 
which border on the Mediterranean. 
The earliest general list of Plants was compiled by Mr. A. W. Lance, 
naval school-master on board H. M.S. Illustrious, in 1845. It contains 
127 species, but is unpublished. The MS. presented by Governor Reid 
is in the Public Library, Hamilton. Grisebach occasionally refers to 
his herbarium. Dr. Rein, who resided in Bermuda, about 1853, in the 
capacity of tutor, printed, 1873, a list comprising LVI orders and 128 
species, exclusive of Alge.* In the same year, Mr. J. Matthew Jones 
published a paper on the vegetation of the Bermudas, in the Proceed- 
ings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science. 
Grisebach notes about 18 West Indian plants as natives of Bermu- 
das in his flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1864, but had evi- 
dently very imperfect information before him. 
' Mr. HL. R. Moseley, naturalist and botanical collector of H. M.S. Chal- 
lenger, had the good fortune to visit the islands at a favorable time of 
year (in parts of April, May, and June, 1873), and collected plants with 
indefatigable diligence, but, of course, missed those which flower in 
autumn. Lastly, the writer, with a very slender knowledge of botany, 
made it an object and pursuit, during a residence of nearly six years, to 
make himself acquainted with the flora of the island, and found in Sir 
Joseph Hooker, Dr. Asa Gray, General Munro, Professor Sargent, Pro- 
fessor Oliver, and Professor Thiselton Dyer, friends ever ready to 
identify any specimen sent to them. From all these sources, aided by 
a too brief visit from Professor Ernst, of Caracas, in 1876, has the sub- 
joined enumeration been compiled, and it is presented in tolerable con- 
fidence that there are not many native plants left unenumerated. There 
are, doubtless, plants in old gardens which have escaped notice; noth- 
ing but a house to house visitation can exhaust the possibilities of fresh 
discovery in this direction. The Bermudians of the last generation, 
and long before it, were eminently a sea-faring people, leaving at home 
their wives, and families, and slaves, and constantly returning with 
some rarity which had attracted their notice. Thus [pomea tuberosa, 
* REIN, Ueber die Vegetations-Verhiiltnisse der BermudaInseln. <Senckenbergische 
naturforschende Gesellschaft. Frankfort, 1872~73. 
