128 Rhodora [JUNE 
Hope, Bristol, R. I., and on Lee's River beach, in the town of Somerset, 
Mass. Mr. E. W. Hervey records! the species in waste places, vicinity 
of New Bedford, Mass. 
HELIANTHUS MOLLIS Lam. Two additional stations for this plant, 
which the writer first reported? from Fall River, Mass., in 1904, 
indicate the probable establishment of this distinctive and handsome 
sunflower. One of the newer colonies, observed for several successive 
years in the sterile soil of a farm, is increasing in size and blooms late 
into the fall. The other, merely a patch in a woodland cart path, 
was without flowers when discovered. Both stations are within the 
Fall River city limits, but there is probably no connection between 
the colonies as they are two and five miles respectively from the group 
first seen. 
RANUNCULUS ALLEGHENIENSIS Britton. When attention was 
called to the distinction between Ranunculus abortivus L. and Ranun- 
culus allegheniensis Britton, botanists naturally hastened to examine 
their collections and to observe more carefully in the field the plants 
which had been passing as R. abortivus. While both species occur 
in the area covered by this article, R. abortivus is, apparently, the 
prevailing plant. Passing northward, R. allegheniensis appears in 
several places in Berkley, Mass., while nearer Boston (at Canton 
Junction, for example) this species seems to predominate. At 
Lincoln, R. I., it is not uncommon. 
CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS L. The presence of the Sugarberry or Hack- 
berry in isolated groups, nearly always on river banks or in unde- 
veloped, rocky pastures adjoining, suggests that this plant is native 
here. The species is represented in Fall River, Dighton, Somerset 
and Swansea, Mass., and in Warren and Bristol, Rhode Island. 
Specimens with pubescent branchlets indicate at least an seen 
to var. crassifolia (Lam.) Gray. 
CONOPHOLIS AMERICANA (L. f.) Wallr. This plant, although 
rather widely distributed, is sufficiently rare and local to be worth 
noting. One might botanize for years without seeing it. Swampy 
woods, or rich soil in shaded places furnish the preferred habitat. 
Specimens from Fall River and Freetown, Mass., and from Tiverton, 
R. I., have been collected or seen by the writer. 
ACER SACCHARUM Marsh. The sugar maple as a native is rare in 
southeastern Mass., but, intermingled with red maples and large 
! Flora of New Bedford and the Shores of Buzzards Bay, 1911, p. 53. 
?RHopoRa, vi. 1904, pp. 88-89. 
