. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 172 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 584 Town, where few other plants will grow. Its stems are straggling, crooked, and more or less procumbent, and its thick, leathery, smooth, obovate leaves, which grow in close terminal tufts, seem to be proof against the injurious effects of salt spray. It bears rather curious white flowers, looking as if slit open on o
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 172 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 584 Town, where few other plants will grow. Its stems are straggling, crooked, and more or less procumbent, and its thick, leathery, smooth, obovate leaves, which grow in close terminal tufts, seem to be proof against the injurious effects of salt spray. It bears rather curious white flowers, looking as if slit open on one side. The berries are as large as a small grape, smooth, black, and have a yary disagreeable taste. The juice makes a nearly indelible black stain, and is said to be sometimes used for marking linen. It is also native of the tropical coasts of America, Africa, and Asia. Sea Lavender. [Statice Lefroyi Hems.) Hemsley, Voy. Challenger, Bot., i, p. 47, pi. iv. Salt marshes at Walsingham. Endemic. Sea Turnstole. [Heliotropmn curassavicum L.) A native plant growing on the salt marshes. It bears twin flower- spikes, curving over in opposite directions. Sea Lavender. [Toiirnefortia gnaphalodes R. B.) Figure s^^^&^^;-4^>'. Figure 88.—Sea Lavender {Tournefortia gn<ix)lialodes E, B.) A native shrub, common on the South Shore near the sea. Its leaves are silky and hoary-gray, narrow, elongated, and are crowded toward the tips of the branches. The flowers are white or pinkish, in small, downy, one-sided, curved spikes. The corolla is 5 or 6 lobed, fleshy and plicate, downy Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Verrill, A. E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926. New Haven, Conn. , The author
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