1899]  Smith,— Additions to flora of Middlesex county 97 
FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF MIDDLESEX 
COUNTY, MASS. | 
ERNEST C. SMITH. 
For seven years past I have collected plants in Framingham and 
the adjoining towns, occasionally meeting species not recorded in the 
Middlesex Flora and more frequently finding plants there noted as rare, 
or credited to only a few isolated stations. Many, if notall these, have 
probably been collected before, but have not to my knowledge previously 
been published. Hoping to bring out similar reports from other col- 
lectors, I submit the following list, each species being represented in 
my herbarium by specimens collected within the limits of the town of 
Framingham. 
An asterisk is prefixed to species not mentioned in Dame and 
Collins’ Flora of Middlesex County. 
Hesperis matronalis, L. Well established and spreading near an 
old cellar-hole. 
* Silene dichotoma, Ehrh. Abundant in several mowing fields and 
back yards; associated with S. noctiflora, L. 
* Oenothera fruticosa, L. A single specimen. 
* Lonicera coerulea, L. Holliston and South F ramingham. (This 
is credited to Townsend in Introduction to Middlesex F lora.) 
* Solidago rigida, L. Two specimens only. 
* Krigia amplexicaulis, Nutt. Wet meadow in northern part of 
town. Abundant. 
Chiogenes hispidula, Torr. & Gray. Found in Sudbury and 
Framingham in cold bogs, but producing neither flowers nor fruit. 
* Polygonum lapathifolium, L. Not uncommon. 
* Salix myrtilloides pedicellaris, Anders. The type of the species 
and the variety, as they occur here, seem quite distinct, the type having 
its leaves prevailingly obovate and the variety showing very narrow 
leaves. 
* Sagittaria Engelmanniana, J. G. Smith. Gleason’s Pond (one 
of the original stations from which type specimens were procured). 
* Habenaria bracteata, R. Br. One specimen only, from South 
Framingham. 
Spiranthes graminea, Walteri, Gray (Spiranthes praecox, Watson). 
Found several times. 
