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258 BERMUDA PLANTS IN THE SLOANE COLLECTION, BRITISH MUSEUM. 
figure.* These plants were collected by a r. J. Dickinson t 
about 1699, and are, we believe, the ak, ate of the 
lished an account} of the plants. He particularly mentions the 
Palm (a species of Sabal), the Juniper, and xicodendron 
among the indigenous plants; an enumerates the following 
edicag , Gentiana nana, and Oxalis Acetosella. The two eae 
should probably have been Erythraa and Ovalis corniculata. 
ut to return to Dickinson’s plants. It will be seen that, 
besides EFrigeron Darrellianus and the Carex, he collected one other 
plant that has a claim to be regarded as indigenous, namely, 
Sisyrinchium Bermudiana. Michaux, it is true, does not mention 
it; but he being a prisoner of war on board an English man-of- 
ar, had only, through the kindness of the Ganiwsasider, 0 oppor- 
tunities for two or Peet short — ec is now spread all over 
the islands, and i of the co mer flowering plants. Its 
claim to be ‘aaidod Geiliescous seme ts open the fact that the variety 
found in the islands is distinct from the various forms of the species 
This variety is taller and more robust than the others. 
aed ia Species was originally conveyed to the cmp perhaps 
by s e mud sticking to the claws = arsh-bird. 
Gcviainly it is a . colonist in many countri multiplying and 
spreading at a rapid rate. It has established itself in in various parts 
of South America, Mauritius, and Australia; and in New Zealand, 
* [This we have since identified with Eupatorium macrophyllum L. In H. 8. 
xxxii. 80 there are only leaves; but in H.S. xcvi. 28 is a flowering branch with 
a reference to Pluk. 243, 2, to which fi h name is attached as that 
¢ fro erb. Sl On fol. 29 of the last-named volume is a specimen of 
Da , fr ich Plukenet’s figure (243, 3) may have been 
his (xevi.) is one of four forming “ an Herbarium of D: lants, 
collected by Dr. Plukenet from all Parts, amongst which are rare plants gathered 
; ”; the indivi pecimens bi os 
P either named n It seems probable that these specimens 
art n r nam 1 
formed part of the incon received from the Bermudas by Petiver, and were 
sent by him to Pluke } 
t [Petiver ageing cent. viil., p. 80, dated Dec. 31, 1700) thus re to 
him :—* To Mr. John Di ekinson I am obli iged for — Plants he lately sent me 
from Bermudas ‘bee sides 2 Collections some Years agoe) with pnd a of 
resi performances”; and at p. 75 ‘a 779), speaking of Juniperus bermudiana, 
ays, “The Cedar of Bermuda’s, From when y Kind Friend Mr. John 
Diskioes sent it me in Berry.”—Ep. Journ. Bo oa 
{ Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, viii., p. 356 (1806). 
g J n. Soc., xvi., p. i 
|| ‘ Hortus Elthamensis,’ p. 48, t. 41, fig. 48 (1732), 
