﻿344 Bicknell: Ferns and 



Large flowered forms having white, brightly yellow-eyed 

 corollas, with relatively short, evenly graduated tube, seem to 

 answer quite exactly to the description of var. Faxonorum Pease 



HousTONiA LOXGiFOLiA Gaertn. 



Recorded by Mrs. Owen from "near Long Pond. L. L. 

 D[ame]." No other collector has reported it. About Long Pond 

 are conditions of soil and surroundings suggestive of localities on 

 Long Island where this is a characteristic plant, but I have not 

 succeeded in rediscovering it on Nantucket where, if it occurs 

 today, it must be of extreme rarity. 

 Cephalanthus occidentalis L. 



A common shrub of wet swamps and the borders of muddy 

 ponds. Leaves appearing June 7, 191 1, June 8, 1908; flower 

 heads less than half size July 4, 1912; still in bloom September 10, 

 1907. 



MiTCHELLA REPENS L. 



A scarce plant on Nantucket where I have met with it only 

 twice. In 1910 a small patch was discovered in a dense thicket 

 near the head of Tom Never 's swamp, and a few plants in a 

 secluded spot at Beechwood, in Polpis. It had not flowered at 

 either station. Mrs. Owen has reported it from Trot's swamp and 

 from Polpis. 

 ♦Galium erectum Huds. 



On Grove Lane, June 28, 1912, a large mass in full flower. 

 *Galium Aparine L. 



Everywhere in shaded thickets on banks and in low grounds. 

 In full flower May 30, 1908, May 31, 1909; well fruited June 28, 

 1912; by midsummer only the withered stems are to be found. 

 Varies remarkably in proportions and in the size of the leaves and 



requent, especially in the northwestern quarter of the island, 

 yet in flower June 26, 1910; past flowering and with mature 

 September 2, 1904. Varies from densely pubescent to 

 St glabrous, the more pubescent forms occurring in exposed 



