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town, and at one place on the harbor shore. In full flower May 

 30, 1909, June 15, 191 1, mid-September, 1899. 

 Datura Stramonium L. 



Infrequent and apparently never of very strong growth on 

 Nantucket. A few small plants at Siasconset, below the bluff, 

 in 1899, 1904, 1912; small plants by the railroad in Nantucket, 

 1904; waste ground south of the town September 16, 1907, in full 



♦Datura Tatula L. 



One small plant in a town barnyard September, 1899; a 

 solitary plant by a streetside in full flower August 10, 1906. 



Note. — Petunia axillaris (Lam.) B, S. P. is occasionally to be 

 in the tow-n streets. 



SCROPHULARIACEAE 

 Verbascum Thapsus L. 



Nowhere abundant, but scattered over the island in dry open 

 places. Spikes beginning to show June 18, 1908; first flowers 

 June 26, 1910, June 28, 1912. 

 * Verbascum phlomoides L. 



Two stout plants together on a bank at Siasconset, June 13, 

 1908, in full flower, thus earlier blooming by over two weeks than 

 the closely related Verbascum Thapsus. 

 Verbascum Blattaria L. 



Seen only in a grassy yard on North Water Street, September 

 10, 1907, a number of fruiting plants, and two still in bloom, their 

 flowers white. Mrs. Owen has recorded it from a single station in 

 Nantucket and from Siasconset. It is thus not less scarce today 

 than it was thirty years ago, and is one of a number of common and 

 widely distributed weeds that on Nantucket do not seem to find 

 conditions favorable to their spread. 

 *Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wettst. 



Linaria Cymbalaria Mill. 



Established along old walls at several places in the town. 

 Just in bloom June 16, 191 1; in full flower June 5, 1912. 



