318 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



HYDROPHYLLACEAE. WATER LEAF FAMILY. 

 HYDROPHYLLUM. Waterleaf. 



H. canadense L. — Borders of mountain brooks at the base of Mt. 

 Greylock, Williamstown ; Cheshire (Winslow). 



H. virginianum L. — Rich woods; common. Valley of the 

 Deerfield River, Florida; altitude 2000 feet, Berry Mt., Hancock. 



BORAGINACEAE. BORAGE FAMILY. 

 CYNOGLOSSUM. Hound's Tongue. 



C. boreale Fernald. — Clearings and open woods; occasional. 

 Stockbridge; Great Barrington. 



C. OFFICINALE L. CoMMON Hound's Tongue. — Pastures; occa- 

 sional. 



ECHIUM. Viper's Bugloss. 



E. vuLGARE L. Blue-weed. — Dry gravelly soil, open hillsides, 

 along railroad tracks and stony flood-plains; locally common in the 

 western part of the valley and in southern New Marlboro. Occasional 

 on the flood-plain of the Deerfield River, Florida. According to 

 Bascom (Berkshire Hist, and Sci. Soc, 3: 307, 1899) Echium 

 vulgare first appeared in the County in 1849. 



forma albiflorum, f. nov. — Corollis albis. Flowers white. 



With the type, Egremont. Type specimen in the herbarium of 

 the N. E. B. C. collected on the stony flood-plain of Green River, 

 Egremont, July 15, 1920 (Hoffmann). 



LAPPULA. Stickseed. 



L. echinata Gilibert. — (L. Lappxila 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 



Railroad track, Pittsfield (Churchill); adventive in chicken-yard, 



Stockbridge. 

 L. virginiana (L.) Greene. Stickseed; Beggar's Lice. — Open 



woods, thickets and rich soil along streams; frequent in the valley. 



LITHOSPERMUM. Gromwell. 



L. arvense L. — Adventive in waste ground. Great Barrington. 

 L. officinale L. — Open hillsides and roadside thickets; occasional 



