THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 109 
inches width are mentioned in the records of the seventeenth century ; 
there is still standing in Devonshire church-yard the shell of an old tree 
59 inches in diameter, and a portion ofa trunk 42 inches wide was found 
below the surface of Pebmroke Marsh in 1872. This tree must have 
been 6 or 7 feet in diameter. The largest trees now standing and to all 
external appearance sound are on Long Bird Island and at Daniel’s Head ; 
they are about 11 feet in circumference. Owing to the total neglect of 
forestry, no attempt ever being made to thin the abundant seedlings 
which spring up round every pistillate tree, the thickets are much 
too crowded, and a great proportion of the trees become stag-headed 
| early. Really valuable cedar timber is becoming scarce as the better 
soils are more and more brought under cultivation, but there is still a 
great deal suitable for cabinet work, for which its beauty and fragrance 
recommend it; and birds’-eye pieces are in considerable demand. The 
cedar flowers in March, when the stamenate trees put on a golden appear- 
ance, which adds much to their beauty. 
Thuja pyramidalis, Tenor. 
There was a tree of some years’ standing at Mr. Henry Darrell’s, 
Hamilton, and several promising young plants at Mount Langton. 
Araucaria Bidwellii, Hook. The Bunya Bunya of Queensland. 
Two plants received from Trinidad in 1875 were well established at 
Mount Langton in 1877. 
A single small, Pinus at Mr. Shaw Wood’s, Spanish Point, was the 
only other Conifer known to the writer until a number of species were 
received from Cambridge, Mass., and planted out in November, 1874. 
Of these the following were living in March, 1877, but the majority had 
made little growth: 
Biota Nepaulensis, Endl. 
orientalis, Don. 
Cupressus funebris, Endl. 
Lawsoniana, Murr. 
. macrocarpa, Hartw. 
torulosa, Lamb. 
Pinus longifolia, Lamb. 
tnops, Ait. 
pinea, Linn. 
Sabiniana, Dougl. 
Sequoia gigantea, Torr. 
