This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... Porto Rico (273, 274). Mercurialis Annua Linn. Sp. PI. 1035. Roadsides at Walsingham, Bermuda (89, 108). Beruardia Bernardia (Linn.) comb. nov. Adelia Bernardia Linn. Syst. ed. x: 1298. B. dichotoma Muell. Arg. Linn. 34: 172. B. carpinifolia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 45. Among other seashore shrubbery north of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... Porto Rico (273, 274). Mercurialis Annua Linn. Sp. PI. 1035. Roadsides at Walsingham, Bermuda (89, 108). Beruardia Bernardia (Linn.) comb. nov. Adelia Bernardia Linn. Syst. ed. x: 1298. B. dichotoma Muell. Arg. Linn. 34: 172. B. carpinifolia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 45. Among other seashore shrubbery north of Georgetown, Grand Cayman (1265). Acalypha Alopecuroidea Jacq. Ic. Rar. 3:19. Waste grounds near San Domingo city (773); San Juan Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1046); and near San Miguel, Cozumel (1544), where it is called X-nix-kax, "Clinging-bunch," from its dense fasiculate growth. Tragia Urticefolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:176. Among shrubbery and herbage at Guanica, Porto Rico (696, 762). Tragia Volubilis Linn. Sp. PI. 980. Climbing'among low shrubbery along roadsides near Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (457, 460). South shore of Culebras Island (606). Ricinus Communis Linn. Sp. PI. 1007. Thoroughly naturalized in all open situations at Guanica, Porto Rico (711); environs of San Domingo city; center of the island of Grand Cayman (1389), and on Cozumel Island. Aleurites Moluccana (L.)Willd. Spec. 4:590. Jatropha Linn. A. triloba Forst. Old garden on the Bodden Bay road, Grand Cayman (1337), where it is called "walnut" and used as an emetic. Manihot Manihot (Linn.) Cockl. Bull. Torr. Club. 19:95. In an old fallow field near Hamilton, Bermuda (136), and in a cultivated field near Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1293). Jatropha Curcas Linn. Sp. Pl. 1006. Old field at Catano, Porto Rico (187). Jatropha Gossypifolia Linn. loc. cit. Old fields at Caguas (225) and Guanica (724), Porto Rico; near Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (442), and in the environs of San Domingo city (873). Jatropha Urens Stimulosa (Michx.) Muell. de C. Prod. 15:1101. Jatropha stimulo...
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