INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
The following list of plants is the result of collections made by 
the author in the British Colony of Bermuda in July and the first 
week of August, 1905. 
The peculiar interest presented by the flora of the islands com- 
posing this colony lies in the fact that there is but a comparatively 
limited number of endemie species, and that the flora is consequently 
made up almost entirely of plants derived from elsewhere, either by 
the agency of man or without it; mainly from the West Indies, but 
also from North and South i\merica and even from Asia and Africa. 
The plants from the last two continents are, hov'-ever, of the most 
transient character, and probably in all cases escapes from cultiva- 
tion. Zantedeschia sethiopica (L.) Spreng., though only three or 
four specimens were observed, had, curiously enough, made itself 
quite at home in a marsh comparatively remote from habitation, 
and was fruiting freely. As in other such regions, every stage in 
the naturalization of plants is to be noted, from the merest garden 
escapes such as Zebrina pendula ScJmitzl and Tropaeolum raajus 
L., never growing far from a garden site, to such well established 
plants as Conocarpus erectus L. and Coffea arabica L. The 
former of these grows everywhere among the rocks of the seashore, 
while the latter occupies a limited tract in the Walsingham District, 
in a deep bowl-shaped depression where are the entrances to the 
remarkable Walsingham Caves. Here it forms the principal vege- 
tation, and covers the ground with its seedlings to the almost com- 
plete exclusion of herbaceous vegetation. That such plants as 
these are not native could only be known from the records. Inter- 
mediate between these cases are such plants as the Zantedeschia, 
above mentioned, which, although scarce and obviously introduced, 
yet seem to be at least temporarily established. Then come the 
weeds, which are rampant everywhere along the roadsides and in 
the gardens. Among the most conspicuous of these are Ammi 
majus L., Fceniculum vulgare Mill., and Erigeron linifolius WiJkl. 
Finally, there are truly native plants such as Asplenium muticum 
Gilh., Typha domingensis Peru., Piaropus crassipes (Mart.) Raj., 
Euphorbia buxifolia Lem., Pro.serpinaca paliistris L., and the like. 
