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F. Mentha rotundifolia. 

 F. Mentha pulegium. 



Malva mauritiana ? 1 

 F. Spartium junceum. 

 F, Vieia sativa. 

 A. Ornithopus perpusillus. 

 F. Trifolium arvense. 

 F. Lotus angustissimus. 

 A. Hypericum perforatum. 

 F. Hypericum humifusum. 

 F. Crepis virens. 



Hypocharis radiata (= Hypochoeris radicata). 2 



Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower). 

 F. Gnaphalium luteo-album. 

 F. Pteris aquilina. 

 F. Asplenium marinum. 



Lycopodium plumosum. 



These plants were collected during a stay of four or five days in 

 July 1775, made by the Resolution under Captain Cook. Of the 

 thirty species above named, three-fourths are included in Watson's 

 catalogue. This proportion would be considerably increased if we 

 dealt with the species of Gentiana, Malva, and Hypochoeris, as indi- 

 cated in the footnotes, and considered that the Safflower and the 

 Oleander as cultivated plants would have been excluded by Watson 

 altogether. 



With the exception of the two ferns and the lycopod there is 

 hardly a plant in this list that could be regarded as having been 

 present in the Azores before the discovery of the group in the first 

 half of the fifteenth century. Of the flowering plants two-thirds 

 are weeds of cultivated and waste places, many of which are known 

 to have been spread through man's agency over much of the world. 

 Others, such as the species of Physalis, Solatium, and Spartium, as 

 well as Cyperus esculentus, are stated by Watson and Trelease to 

 have been introduced, or are labelled as weeds without comment, 

 and most of them are well known to be plants, as in the first three 

 cases, that have often been introduced by man, either intentionally 

 or accidentally, in other parts of the world. The Safflower and the 

 Oleander, as above indicated, are not included by Watson and 

 Trelease in their lists of plants, either indigenous or introduced. 

 They may be observed in the small cottage gardens and ornamental 

 gardens of our own time. 



The above list is useful as showing that many of the plants that 

 do not belong to the Azorean flora were introduced long ago. Most 

 of them, it is true, were observed by Hochstetter in 1838, but for 

 the plants it concerns this list carries us sixty-three years further 

 back. Within a year or two of each other, George Forster (1775) was 



1 Malva nicceensis, AH., collected by Watson and Godman only in Fayal, was in 

 the first place named by the former M . rotundifolia. 



2 Possibly Hypochoeris glabra, L., which much resembles H. radicata, L. (B. and 

 H.), and has been since found on Fayal and other islands. 



