BERMUDA PLANTS IN THE SLOANE COLLECTION, BRITISH MUSEUM. 259 
on the authority of Dr. Hector, it is common on the hills near 
Wellington, where it forms a considerable part of the pasture, and 
is greatly relished by cows, yet able to maintain its cnet and even 
to continue to spread. The same species, it will be remember 
has been found in a wild state in several places in ielaud, though 
how it reached there is uncertai 
8 raed stated, the Sloane Collection contains » Kare eae 
of Juniperus bermudiana from the West mame * The original J. 6 
mudiana was founded by Hermann} on venile or wena stake 
raised from seed received from En ee i? reported as coming 
from the Berean das. All the Sridanco goes to show that Parlatore } 
has given the correct synonymy of the species, that he ey 
right in repanlie it as distinct from J. virginian ace 
panying woodcuts, kindly lent for repebdaction by the editor of “the 
‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ ee a very good idea of the characteristics 
of J. bermudiana, as we the differences in the foliage of J. 
rol prscaiue The latter ty Sildoh slenderer ultimate peer a 
maller, more acute leaves, with a distinctly resinous gland on the 
fire: and there apeees to be very good distinctiv i aa aes in 
the fruits and seeds of the two species ; but ray I have not yet 
been able to compare fully. Sloane’s specimens of J. bermudiana 
e from J ae ,§ the Baibededs and English gardens; none from 
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eron  Dapelibiines || (Tab. nostr. aa fig. 1) is called ‘‘Hen 
Hogweed”’ on Dickinson’s label in the Sloane Collection—“‘it grows 
amongst bushes and flowers in February an | March ”: and there is 
a dapuinit species of H’rigeron, pes E. lintfolius, on the same sheet 
and from the same country, named ‘‘ Hogweed” simply. Which bes 
these two is intended by Plukenet {| under the designation Eupatori 
angustiorifolio Bermudense, &c., is uncertain: the figure is not a pi 
representation of either 
The Cares is the most interesting plant in this collection, being 
the only specimen of the genus I have seen from the Bermudas. 
[H. S. elxxxiy. 3, labelled “ Bermudas Savin or Cypresse. Pl. 197, 4.” This 
volume contains the “ "Arbores Barbaden met rebate of Mr. Petiver,” some 
being further ey as “ very bad speci ns of Ba i trees gathered by 
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t Hort. Acad. Lugd. Bat. Cat., p. 345, with dee 
t DeCandolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ xvi., pars 2, p. 491. 
§ [Sloane has in his own Jamaica collections both - virginiana (H. 5S. v. 51) 
and J. bermudiana (H. S. v. 52), ths latter apogee ended o. " the hye 
“precedentis varietas?” is description am 
inelude both: the wood, he says, is “ extremely like, if not the ian “with ‘he 
Bermudas Cedar.”—Ep. Journ. 
|| [There is also a specimen at the British Museum, eollected by the Rev. R. 
Hanter,. oes belled by him, “ sean on the sea-coast in the parish of Paget, 
or 1844.”—Ep. Journ oT.] 
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