WCP2171

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ROYAL GARDENS

KEW

1 Jan 1880.

My Dear Sir

I do not recollect any flowering plant which can be clearly said to be peculiar to Bermuda. We have three specimens not accuratel[y] determined or not in a state to speak putatively about, that I c^d. not affirm positively there was no peculiar phanerogam. [2] Mr Baker¹ tells me Adiantum bellum, a fern. — is only known from Bermuda.*

Gen. Lefroy² has been taking great pains to get a list made out of Bermuda plants & I think is shortly going to publish something.

If I hear anything to the point I intend to let you know.

Plants have means of [3] dispersion often so distinct from those available of animals, — land shells at any rate — that I sh^d hardly have thought the occurrence of peculiar species of the latter could have served as ground for inference that these sh^d. also be peculiar plants.

Very truly yours | D. Oliver³ [signature]

There are 2 or 3 marked forms so far as we know peculiar to the N^o. of species occurring elsewhere — as the old Sisyrin- [4] chium bermudianum (& I think also a form of Rhus Toxicodendron which however is hardly different if at all from the N. American type.)

x also a new Cephrodium