1908] Owen,— Adventive Heaths of Nantucket 177 
mon, a plant that could have had no connection with those of the 
nursery from which it was miles away. This 1880 plant evidently 
belongs with those scattered specimens found from time to time in 
our country from Newfoundland to Massachusetts. 
Either in 1886 or soon after, the late Mr. John H. Redfield went 
to Nantucket expressly to see the three heaths of which he had heard 
from his friend Dr. Asa Gray. After visiting those to which this pa- 
per refers, Mr. Lawrence Coffin took him to see the one which he had 
found so long before. Mr. Redfield wrote to me that the size of the 
stock and general appearance of this solitary plant indicated a very 
considerable age. It disappeared years ago. 
As for the future of our immigrants, the two bell-heather plants 
seem likely to live out their natural lives and the ling (Calluna) may 
become naturalized in a few spots. In 1907 I went to see every in- 
dividual plant of all three of the heaths of which Mr. John Appleton 
had any knowledge, and he is well informed about their localities. 
I found the Calluna quite widely spread. There is a fine large 
plant raised from a cutting, carefully cherished in a yard in the heart 
of the town, and Mr. Appleton has two equally large on his farm 
transplanted from land of his own adjoining the Coffin nursery, 
while in the nursery itself there may be from twelve to twenty,— I 
could not easily count them. A few neglected straggling specimens 
are still to be found amongst the grass on the Dahlgren place. 
Mr. Abajian has attempted propagation and he showed me a few 
minute specimens in his window box; this was in 1906, but they 
were gone in 1907. A *"'cliff-dweller" took me to two beautiful 
plants on the face of the Cliff set out there a few years before, now 
large and healthy bushes;— this because I was trustworthy, so I 
say no more of that locality. 
Next a most interesting patch far along on the Cliff. Within a 
space measuring twelve feet by six, there are, by actual count, about 
fifty vigorous little plants, some hardly above the ground, and others 
from that size up to three or four inches in height, some in bloom. 
These are puzzlers. I might think they were from seed, but who 
sowed it? Dr. and Mrs. Workman own the place, but they left Nan- 
tucket for the Himalayas years ago, and their house has been closed 
ever since. The few who know of this interesting cluster lay it to 
Mrs. Dahlgren's agency,— really a probable conjecture,— her cot- 
tage was not far from Monsalvat, the Workman place — and although 
