176 THE NATUEALIST IN BBKMUDA. 



^EA Bottle. — May, 1849. That' very curious marine 

 plant, commonly designated the " sea bottle," has been 

 common on the sands duriag the whole of this month. 

 These "sea bottles" are transparent, and shaped like a 

 small balloon; the largest measuring about one iach in 

 length. The inside is filled with sea water, sometimes per- 

 fectly clear, at others deeply tinged with green, arising from 

 small particles of sea weed which have become hermetically 

 sealed up with the confined water. I have sometimes found 

 these bottles washed on shore in small clusters, as if they 

 had sprung from the surface of some submerged rock. They 

 are without leaves or branches. — J. L. H. 



Mtjsheoom. — March 2nd, 1852. Mr. Barss came to me 

 this morning with a fine specimen of the mushroom, 

 (Ayarims campestris,) in his hand, which had been gathered 

 by Mr. Thomas Hall upon his own ground. Though resi- 

 dent iu the Bermudas upwards of eleven years, I was not 

 aware, until now, that the mushroom was known here. Mr. 

 Hall tells me he has noticed them for many years at this 

 season, growing wild on the same spot,* and that he has 

 seen as many as a dozen at one time, some of them as wide 

 as the palm of his hand. 



Might not the cultivation of this fungus be turned to 

 good account in a winter gardeniag climate like this ? As- 

 paragus, one would suppose, would also thrive here, and yet 

 I have never met with it. — J. L. H. 



• A grassy bajik between the east wall of Pembroke Churcliyard and the 

 adjoining marsh. 



