Providence, R. I. 
May 4, 1911. 
My dear Collins: - 
This has been a very busy week and your postal 
of April 26th giving the names of the Bermuda plants you so 
kindly determined for me has remained unanswered. I wanted 
to get up to the college this week hut now find that I shall 
he obliged to wait until next Tuesday, Will this he convenient 
for you? 
In a work I have taken from the Providence Public Library 
entitled "The Bermuda Islands" etc. by Addison B. Verrill, 
Professor of Zoology, Yale Universit 3 r I find the following 
regarding the Crab-grass ( Stenotaphrum Americanum Schr~S. 
g lab rum in Lefroj»-.} as this book gives it. 
"The most abundant native grass; it graws in all dry and 
rocky places by the sea -side and on the cliffs, and also in the 
interior. It forms depressed or flattened rosettes of leaves 
close to the ground, and sends out rooting stolons/ often several 
feet long, in every direction. These ma 3 r often be seen hanging 
down over the edges of cliffs and of rock cuttings along the roads, 
swinging with the wind and read 3 r to take root in an 3 ' crevice." 
I will trçr to remember to bing this book next Tuesda 3 r if you 
find it is not in the College Library. Prom its pages I 
learn that the red cedar of Bermuda is given as Juniperus 
Be r mudiana Linne, and is spoken of as almost restricted to 
these islands, being distinct from the Barbadoes Juniper 
and the American Red Cedar. 
