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'TRiNIDAD.— This island is opposite the delta of the Orinoco, Venezuela 
and may be regarded as a detached piece of the mainland. Tt lies 
etween 10° and 11° N. lat., and 61° and 62° W. long., and has an area 
of 1,754 square miles. The surface is undulated ud hilly in parts, 
though the greatest elevation does not exceed 3,000 fee 
Crueger, H. Outline of Flora of Trinidad. iue 1858. 8vo. 
s s 
Fendler's Ferns of —€— Coulter's Botanical 
D. C. 
; dee November 1878. A list of 114 specie 
Devenish, S. Vernacular and Botanieal Names of the Woods of 
Trinidad: Handbook of the West Indies and British Honduras, Indian 
and Colonial Exhibition, 1886, pp. 29-33. 
Jenman, G. S. The Ferns of Trinidad: Journal of Botany, 1887, 
pp. 97-101. 
'rvnks IsraND. See Bahamas. 
" ViRgGIN Istanps.—An archipelago to the east of Portorico, the 
principal British islands being Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, 
Tortol a, mm and Peter's Island ; but altogether there are thirty-two 
** rocklets." 
islands besid 
Tortola is in" about 18° 25' N. lat. and 64° 40’ W. long., and has a 
area of twenty-six square miles. It is everywhere hilly, with a maxi- 
mum elevation of 1,600 feet. 
Virgin Gorda lies a little to the north-east of Tortola, and is only ten 
square miles in area. It is hilly and barren in the eastern part 
Anegada is the most northerly “ group, and is a low coral island, 
with an area of fourteen square mil 
Eggers, H. F. The Flor t St. Croix and the Virgin am 
Washington, e Bulletin of the United States National Museum 
No.13. 8vo. 133. 
WiNDWARD iis .—The southern group of the Lesser Antilles, 
ors St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Birbal the Grenadines, Grenada, and 
Bermupas.—A chain of i twenty-five miles long, in the Atlantic 
Ocean, in 32° N. lat. and 64 „and between 600 and 700 miles, 
from Cape Hatteras, SEI Sab "The are of calcareous limestone, 
and nowhere more than 250 feet above the level of the sea. ‘The main 
island, Bermuda, on which the town of Hamilton is situated, is about 
aeres in extent. Ireland, Boaz, Somer set, Tucker. , Eli 
Goat, Castle, Nonsuch, Coopers, St. Davi ids, St. "Georges, Cone y, an and 
Ferry Islands are all relatively. small, and some of them little more 
e em 
y, W. B. Botany of the * Challenger” Expedition, i., part 1, 
ness M 1-128, tt. 1-13, and * Introduction" to the same work, 
6-49. 
Lefroy, J. H. The Botany of Bermuda. Washington, 1885. 
Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 25. pp. 141. 
Reade, C. A. Plants of the Bermudas or Somer’ S MUR Hamilton, 
Berm uda, 1885. 8yo. pp.112 and index. Descriptions in English of 
the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants. 
The indigenous vascular plants number 144, belonging tO 
109 genera and 50 natural orders, Eight species are apparen rently 
