1905] Beattie,— Remarks on Rhode Island Plants 39 
Weymouth, fully three miles away, where there are a few scattered 
plants all of which for at least a number of years have borne pink 
flowers. The white form shows no constant differences from the 
type except in color. The petals are not greenish nor creamy, but 
a very pure white, and the brown markings usually found at the 
“eye” of the pink flowers are wanting in the white form the centre 
of which is a delicate green or yellow color. The plants seem larger 
and more vigorous than those of the type, but this is probably due 
to more favorable conditions for growth. On two sides of the large 
pond the white flowers are massed so closely together that when seen 
from the street they bring to mind a field of daisies in early summer. 
— ALICE G. CLARK, East Weymouth, Massachusetts. 
REMARKS ON RHODE ISLAND PLANTS. 
FREDERICK S. BEATTIE. 
THE following statements apply to collections in Rhode Island 
during 1904. 
Microstylis ophioglossoides, Nutt. — Collected only in Exeter by 
Prof. W. W. Bailey, about thirty-five years ago, and credited to him 
in Bennett’s List. I found the species on July 30 at South Kingston. 
Five plants only appeared, in a low, gravelly swamp, in company with 
Habenaria ciliaris, R. Br., ZZ. blephariglottis, Torr., Gaultheria pro- 
cumbens, L., and Oxycoccus palustris, Pers. They were growing scat- 
tered in beds of a Polytrichum, a preference noted in case of some 
plants of the species collected on July 8, at Fort Kent, Maine. 
Taraxacum erythrospermum, Andrz. — Credited to Lincoln by 
Mr. J. F. Collins (RHnopoRa, V, 291). On May 29 I collected the 
species in excellent fruit at Sneech Pond, and on May 30 at Dia- 
mond Hill, both in the town of Cumberland. At each locality the 
red-seeded species was abundant in open woods, on hillsides, princi- 
pally, and ledges, not venturing into the open at all; while 7. offici- 
nale appeared to keep carefully out of the woods, growing only in the 
open. About June 11 I found a single plant of 7. erythrospermum, 
in good fruit, by the railroad track in East Providence. 
Lilium tigrinum, Andr. — This species is new to the state. It is 
well established in Lincoln, about the quarries at Limerock, growing 
fairly thickly here and there by roadsides, generally in the shade 
