1899] Day, — Plants of Mt. Equinox 221 
ramosissimum, Michx., Rumex patientia, L., Platanus occidentalis, L., 
* Allium fistulosum, L., Typha angustifolia, L., * Carex tribuloides, var. 
Bebbii, Bailey, C. eburnea, Boott, and C. Schweinitzii, Dewey. Grow- 
ing on plantain and clover we found the recently introduced * Cuscuta 
Epithymum, Murr., and *Convolvulus japonica, Thunb., had estab- 
lished itself near an old flower-garden. * Physalis heterophylla, Nees, 
with its variety * ambigua, Rydberg, grew in open fields. The “poison 
hemlock,” Conium maculatum, L., was found in several places, but 
always within a short distance of dwellings. uphorbia Helioscopia, L., 
had established itself as a weed, and Chenopodium capitatum, Wats., 
reproduced itself year after year in a garden where a plant had been 
transplanted from the mountain. In dry soil, near a small lake, were 
Asclepias tuberosa, L., and Gentiana quinqueflora, L. Equisetum va- 
riegatum, Schl., grew quite abundantly by a brook near the village. 
On the lower slope of the mountain was a large, open pasture, hav- 
ing dry, poor soil, but furnishing some interesting plants. Here 
Anemone cylindrica, Gray, and * Hypericum boreale, Bicknell (usually 
of moister habitat), were found, also Aster ptarmicoides, Torr. & 
Gray, *Blephilia ciliata, Raf., *B. hirsuta, var. glabrata, Fernald,' 
Calamintha Clinopodium, Benth., and Monarda fistulosa, var. mollis, 
Benth. . 
As we ascended the mountain where the forests commenced, the 
soil changed from sandy to rich dark earth, and there was a marked 
difference in the growth of the plants. Ribes oxycanthoides, L., and 
ER. rubrum, var. subglandulosum, Maxim., were found growing side by 
side. *Circaea intermedia, Ehrh., reported from Maine (RHODORA, 
i. 102) but not elsewhere from North America, grew here with C. a/pina 
and C. Lutetiana, L. Uvularia grandiflora, Smith, was found sparingly 
in open places, and Cvstopteris bulbifera, Bernh., grew abundantly in one 
locality. An open knoll was covered with Juniperus Sabina, var. procum- 
bens, Pursh., which formerly had been only doubtfully reported from 
the state. This was found in two other dry places in great abundance. 
Microstvlis monophyllos, Lindl., was also found in these woods. At a 
higher elevation, near Table Rock, a place of about two thousand 
1 BLEPHILIA HIRSUTA, Benth., var. glabrata, Fernald, n. var. “Stems glabrous 
or minutely puberulent, villous only at the very tips, or with a few scattered long 
hairs on the angles below; leaves glabrous or very slightly pubescent; head solitary, 
terminal, or with one or two approximate (not remote) lower ones. — Dry wooded 
slope of Mt. Equinox, Manchester, Vermont, July 1, 1898, and in dry open pastures, 
base of Mt. Equinox, July 5, 1898, Wary 4. Day, nos, 140, 141." 
