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farther up the cape it is abundant, and there was no A. syriaca. Of 
Solidago I saw only five species; S. sempervirens already mentioned, 
S nemoralis in dry fields, S. tenuifolia common by roadsides, S. 
ulmifolia once near a swamp, and S. odora, common in fields. Hiera- 
cium was represented by H. Marianum, H. venosum and H. Gronovii, 
all common; no introduced species were seen. ‘There was an abun- 
dance of Antennaria in the fields, varying much in size and appearance, 
but it proved to be all A. plantaginifolia. Gerardia paupercula was 
the only representative of that genus; Ranunculus repens was the only 
crowfoot, and that I saw only in one station; the Ranunculaceae in 
general were poorly represented. I saw no Oenothera except O. 
muricata; there was a much condensed form of Cirsium pumilum and 
some fairly good C. discolor, but no C. lanceolatum nor C. arvense; 
it speaks much for the poverty of a soil when it will not support Canada 
thistle. Of the Saxifragaceae I saw only a few plants of Ribes oxya- 
canthoides, and the Cornaceae were quite unrepresented. So were 
the genera Rudbeckia, Arctium, Geranium, Thalictrum, Anemone, 
Aquilegia, Berberis, Desmodium and Crataegus. Та riding on the train 
to Boston it is interesting to notice, one after another, the appearance, 
often in abundance, of the species lacking in Eastham; a great patch 
of Thalictrum in Brewster; Rudbeckia in Harwich, and soon. I would 
have added succory as appearing near the old glass works in Sand- 
wich, but for one plant that I found in Eastham in what had been a 
strawberry bed, but now run to weeds; beside it were two tall black- 
berry bushes, the only high blackberries in the region, where the 
common blackberry is Rubus villosus var. humifusus, lying flat on the 
ground and working havoc with shoes and stockings, but supplying 
what seems to me the finest fruit of all the blackberries, large grained, 
sweet and juicy. The flat artificial level of another deserted straw- 
berry patch was a dense mass of Verbena hastata, as high as a man’s 
head; I did not see this species elsewhere in the town. Even as 
regards weeds there are peculiarities. A few stunted plants of Amar- 
anthus retroflexus and А. graecizans were the only representatives of the 
genus; occasional plants of Anthemis Cotula and Linaria vulgaris 
were to be seen, but they were by no means common. Artemisia 
Stelleriana abounded along the shore, A. caudata everywhere; the 
latter species seems at home in sand inland as much as at the shore. 
Some of the more recent importations in weeds were well established; 
Bromus tectorum, Brassica arvensis and B. juncea, Sisymbrium altissi- 
