1914] Collins,— Opuntia vulgaris on Cape Cod 101 
E. Lee, Jr., son of the famous Confederate general, who, from 1852 
to 1855, was superintendent on the Post." He had many warm friends 
among the members of the New England Botanical Club of which he 
was a non-resident member, and he attended a number of its meetings 
in the earlier years of its life before his physical troubles increased. 
In 1906 Bailey's failing health compelled his resignation from his 
college work. He was honored with the title of Professor Emeritus, 
and during the remainder of his life he lived quietly at home, devoting 
much of his time to reading and writing. But his ever increasing 
physical troubles wore heavily upon him and at last, on February 20, 
1914, hedied. "The funeral was held at the family home in Providence 
on February 23. At his own request his coffin was draped with the 
American flag, and the authorities at West Point allowed his body to 
be laid to rest in the Academy grounds near that of his father. 
On March 14, 1881, Professor Bailey was married to Eliza Randall 
Simmons of Providence. She and two children, Whitman and 
Margaret Emerson, survive him. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
OPUNTIA VULGARIS ON CAPE COD. 
F. S. Couns. 
THE occurrence of Opuntia vulgaris Mill. at Nantucket has long been 
a matter of record; it is common there on the peninsula of Coatue. 
The earliest record appears to be by Hitchcock in 1833. “Cactus 
Opuntia, Nantucket, T. A. Green. Prickly Pear. It does not 
appear in the first and second editions of Bigelow’s Florula, but is 
mentioned in the third edition? “Found at Nantucket, June, July." 
In the first edition of Gray's Manual, 1848, p. 141, the distribution 
is given as “Sandy fields and dry rocks, Nantucket to N. J. and south- 
ward near the coast." Later editions have practically the same. In 
! Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of 
Massachusetts, p. 605. 
? Jacob Bigelow, Florula Bostoniensis, third ed., 1840, p. 203. 
