1899] Rand, — Pinus Banksiana on Mt. Desert Island 135 
spreading or slightly ascending pedicels subtended by lanceolate bracts 
about half their length: calyx about 4 cm. high, the divisions lance- 
attenuate: corolla as in Z. producta, but the oblong-lanceolate divisions 
narrower: the sinuses between the filaments narrow and acute. — Z. 
quadrifolia, L., var., Gray, l. c. 273. —In damp thickets, Maine to 
the District of Columbia. Marne, Wells Beach, July 23, 1898 (J. C. 
Parlin & M. L. Fernald): New York, White Plains (Æ. J. Clark) : 
Disrricr or Cotumpia, Washington (Dr. Crandall). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 6.— Lysimachia producta: fig. 1, upper portion of 
plant, reduced; fig. 2, corolla; fig. 3, androecium. L. polyantha : fig. 4, upper por- 
tion of plant, reduced; fig. 5, corolla; fig. 6, androecium. 
Pinus BANKSIANA ON Mr. DESERT ÍstAND.— Since the discovery 
of the northern scrub pine (Pinus Banksiana, Lamb.) on Schoodic 
Mountain and about Prospect Harbor, in the coast town of Gouldsboro, 
Maine, I have expected to find it on Mount Desert Island as well, 
although the wide expanse of Frenchman's Bay intervenes. After much 
unsuccessful search in all parts of the Island, I was fortunate enough 
in July, 1898, to discover it on an eastern slope of Green Mountain. 
There were about thirty small trees from six to twelve feet in height — 
all cone-bearing — scattered over a small area on a sheltered part of 
the mountain side. Owing to the protected situation, the trees were 
symmetrical, not dwarfed and contorted like those on Schoodic 
Mountain, or flattened and weather-beaten like those of the pitch 
pine (Pinus rigida, Mill.) on the exposed ridges elsewhere on Green 
Mountain. I noticed a few young trees of P. Banksiana, so that, if 
spared by fire, this interesting pine ought to increase at this station. 
It should be here mentioned that it was reported some years ago 
to the late Edwin Faxon and myself, that on a certain farm near Long 
Heath, east of Somesville, a rather tall tree, “somewhere between a 
spruce and a pine," and the only one of its kind, had grown for many 
years. After one or two unsuccessful attempts we found the spot where 
the tree had been until broken down by an ice storm the winter before. 
No trace of it was then left from which its identity could be determined, 
but there is good reason to suppose that it was Pinus Banksiana. 
After the discovery of the Green Mountain station I took specimens of 
the pine to Somesville and showed them to persons who knew and had 
1 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 16: 294, 295. 
