S6 Rhodora | APRIL 
ECHINOPS. 
E. sPHAEROCEPHALUS L. Rubbish heap, Cambridge (W. Deane, 
Aug. 5, 1886); escaped from Fenway into vacant lots, Boston (E. 
F. Williams, Aug. 12, 1903 et seq.). 
ECLIPTA. 
E. ALBA (L.) Haussk. S. Boston flats (C. E. Perkins, Oct. 3, 1879). 
Specimens in herb. N. E. Botanical Club and N. T. Kidder. 
ERECHTITES. 
E. hieracifolia (L.) Raf. Meadows and borders of salt marshes, 
somewhat local. See RHopona xix. 25-27, 1917, for the discussion of 
the following varieties. 
E. hieracifolia (L.) Raf., var. intermedia Fernald. Open ground 
and waste places, frequent throughout. 
E. hieracifolia (L.) Raf., var. praealta Fernald. Vide supra. 
Twelve scattered stations, the northwestern section not represented. 
ERIGERON. 
E. annuus (L.) Pers. Fields and roadsides, common throughout. 
E. canadensis L. Fields, gardens and waste places, very common 
throughout. 
E. philadelphicus L. Moist open woods, rare; Andover, N. Andover, 
Reading, N. Reading, Groton, Malden, Stony Brook Reservation, 
Milton: Hingham, according to T. T. Bouvé, in Flora of Hingham, 
110, 1893. 
E. pulchellus Michx. Fields and meadows, common throughout. 
E. pusillus Nutt. See Ruopona xv. 205-209, 1913. Dry bank, 
Methuen (F. W. Grigg, Aug. 17, 1920); dunes, Plum Island, Ipswich 
(F. W. Grigg, Sept. 15, 1912); by bridge over Beaver Brook, Littleton 
(J. P. Bill & F. W. Grigg, Sept. 2, 1922); sandy soil, Pembroke 
(M. L. Fernald, Oct. 29, 1916); gravelly beach, Green Harbor, Marsh- 
field (C. H. Knowlton, Aug. 25, 1923). 
E. ramosus (Walt.) BS P. Dry fields and waste places, common 
throughout. 
E. ramosus (Walt.) B S P.,var. discoideus (Robbins) B S P. Occa- 
sional; specimens reported from Lexington, Ashland, Dover, Stough- 
ton, Marshfield. 
