THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 101 
LX X XIX.—CHENOPODIEZ. 
Chenopodium anthelminticum, Linn. Goosefoot family. 
A coarse, strong-smelling, perennial weed; probably native; found 
among rocks and roadsides. Common in West Indies and United 
States. From kén, Gr., a goose, and pous, foot; in allusion to the form 
of the leaves. 
C. ambrosioides, Linn. 
An annual weed in cultivated ground; probably from West Indies. 
Native of Mexico. 
C. album, Linn. 
An annual weed in cultivated ground; from Southern United States 
(not West Indies). 
Atriplex cristata,H. B. (Obione cristata, Moquin.) Sea orache. 
An erect herbaceous plant common along the north shores, ¢. g., near 
the ducking stool, where its spikes of minute male flowers are con- 
spicuous in August and September. The female flowers, which are 
sessile in the axils of the branchlets, very minute, star-shaped, and of a 
grayish green color, appear rather later, in small groups of 2-4 flowers. 
The plant generally is scurfy, of grayish tint, 6’ up to 2’ high. From 
a privative, Gr., and trafein, to nourish. 
Salicornia fruticosa, Linn. Var. Marsh Sampphire; Glasswort. 
Abundant in salt marshes; stem prostrate or creeping; branches suc- 
culent, leafless, cylindrical, erect, jointed, 6 in. to 13 ft. high ; flowers in 
May. S.ambigua, Michx., in Rein’s list. S. herbacea, Linn.,in Lane’s list. 
From sal, salt; cornu a horn, Lat. 
Beta vulgaris, Linn. Beetroot. 
In gardens, and cultivated, but to no great extent, for exportation to 
New York. 
XC.—BASELLZ. 
Boussingaultia baselloides, HBK. 
Grew luxuriantly over a veranda at Mount Langton, but was acci- 
dentally destroyed. I afterwards found it at a cottage on David's 
XCI.—LAURINEZ. 
Island. 
Persea gratissima, Gaertn. Avocada or Alligator pear. 
Common, and very fine. It is more prized by Bermudians than any 
other fruit. A tree at Mount Langton, planted about 1835, is now the 
