1899] Churchill, — Some plants about Williamstown 25 
gling vine with little pungent odor, and the bright pink flowers are 
larger. I thought at first I had found a long-sought plant, /santhus 
ceruleus, but that pleasure was reserved until a day or two later, when, 
in a stubble field near by, I came upon the little stranger growing there 
in profusion. It was my first introduction to /santhus, which is not 
definitely located in Massachusetts in the Manual, the Synoptical Flora, 
or the Illustrated Flora, and it does not appear in our local lists. 
Two other mints, close relatives and neighbors in the manuals, I 
also found near each other in North Adams, near Williamstown. I 
had never seen Thymus serpyllum, L., and Origanum vulgare, L., 
before, but the chief interest, withal, was in the association of these old 
English plants with Shakespeare and the English classics. The Thyme 
grew in an open meadow at the base of Greylock Mountain, not far 
Írom the beginning of the carriage road which leads from the Notch 
road to the summit; and, as if scrupulously mindful of the habitat 
assigned to it in Oberon's pretty line, 
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows," 
it was dutifully growing in round patches, each no larger than a dinner 
plate, upon a low bank which sloped steeply down to a swale. It was 
a warm midsummer day, the plant was in full flower, and the bees 
which swarmed about it evidently shared with me the enjoyment of its 
beauty and fragrance, but not the charm of its novelty. To them, I 
suppose, Zhymus serpyllum was an old story. 
The Marjoram grew scatteringly along woody roadsides, but I found 
it also in Williamstown, and most abundantly in a limestone quarry in 
Pownal, over the border in Vermont. 
In the same meadow with the Thyme, I collected Gatium boreale, 
L., in fruit, G. Mollugo, L., in flower, Dianthus deltoides, L., and, in a 
wet place, Epilobium strictum, Muhl. 
An immigrant from the Rocky Mountains, which has hardly yet 
reached Boston, but which is already abundant as a weed along road- 
sides at Williamstown, is MZatricaria discoidea, DC., appearing curi- 
ously like our Mayweed (Anthemis Cotula, L.), but scentless when fresh 
and without rays. 
The Agrimonies, as recently revised by Mr. E. P. Bicknell (Bull. 
Torr. Club, 23: 509), presented another example of the difference in 
the flora here and at the eastern end of the state. I found that 4. 
