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BERMUDA PLANTS IN THE SLOANE COLLECTION, 
BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By W. Bortine Hemstey, A.L.S. 
(PuatE 239). 
Since writing the descriptions of two new Bermudan plants 
published at p. 104, an article on the scope of the forthcoming 
volume on the Botany of the ‘ Challenger’ Expedition,* and other 
result i 
endemic element. The number of apparently endemic species now 
known is still small: yet one at least, a palm, is a conspicuous 
the subject of this paper. The existence of Juniperus bermudiana 
in Jamaica has quite lately been confirmed by a parcel of Juniper- 
berries sent to Sir J. D. H 
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in number, yet among them are my /rigeron Darrellianus (see 
104) and a species of Carex (H. §. xxxii. (Herb. Sloan. xxxil. 
81) 88) hitherto undeseribed; the others being Sisyrinchium Ber- 
mudiana (H. 8. clix. 8), Verbena urticifolia (H. 8. chx. 47: “a 
. ‘ , Erigeron 
ens c ius ? 8. xxxil. 
81). There is also a leaf, apparently of a Composite (H. 8. 
xxxii. 80), labelled ‘* Eupatorium Bermudense latifolium flos- 
culis pallescentibus, Silverweed nostratibus vulgo, Pluk. Tab. 248, 
fig. Conyza urticifol. Sl. Jam. 124,” which we have no 
been able to identify, either from the specimen or from Plukenet’s 
SF SRE ee ES care 
** Nature,’ March 15, 1883, p. 462. 
¢ ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ N.8., Xix., pp. 367, 431, 656. 
Journan or Borany.—Vou. 21. [Supremper, 1883.) s 
