84 FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. 



CERASTIUM, L. Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



C. VULGATUM, L. Gray, Manual, 6tb ed. C. viscosum of 

 Man., 5tli ed. 



Fields and waste places; common. Naturalized from Europe. 

 C. arvense, L. Field Chickweed. 



Eare. Duck Islands (Rand, Redfield, Annie S. Downs); — 

 field near Ship Harbor (Redfield & Faxon). 



SAGINA, L. Peaklwobt. 



S. procumbens, L. 



Springy places and wet rocks; frequent. Sea Wall (H. C. 

 Jones); — Flying Mt. ; Somesville ; Southwest Valley road, 

 etc. (Rand) ; — Cranberry Isles (Redfield, Wm. C. Lane) ; — 

 Duck Islands (Redfield) ; — Great Head (F. M. Day). 



S. nodosa (L.), Fenzl. Knotty Pearlwort. 



Crevices of rocks and gravelly banks; rare. Bar Harbor 

 (Rand, Kate Furbish) ;— The Cliffs, Seal Harbor (Rand). 



BUDA, Adans. {Spergularia, Presl.) Sand Spurbey. 



B. rubra (L.), Dumort. Spergidaria rubra (L.), Presl. Pink 

 Sand Spurrey. 



Frequent; dry sandy soil, and occasionally on sea beaches. 

 ]\Ianchester Point, Northeast Harbor ; Bar Harbor (Rand) ; — 

 Seal Harbor; jSTortheast Harbor ; Little Cranberry Isle (Red- 

 field); — Great Cranberry Isle; Fernald Point (R. & R.); — on 

 beach, Great Cranberry Isle (Rand). This plant in dry soil is 

 strictly procumbent, usually undersized and dwarfed; on beaches 

 it becomes large and widely spreading. 



B. marina (L.), Dumort. Spergularia salina, Presl. 



Sea beaches; rare. Sutton Island; Great Cranberry Isle 

 (Rand). 



B. borealis, S. Watson. Spergularia horealis (S, Watson), 

 Robinson. 

 Frequent on sea beaches and salt marshes. Wasgatt Cove 

 (J. L. Wakefield); — Somesville; Little Cranberry Isle (Red- 



