﻿remaining, July 12, 1912. In the autumns when I have observed 

 it it has fruited much less freely than V. venosum. 

 Viburnum venosum Britton. 



A noteworthy shrub of Nantucket abounding throughout in 

 damp thickets, on dry banks and in open ground; also in pine 

 barrens. Cymes small and green June 7, 1908; forward bushes 

 just in flower June 30, 191 2, everywhere in showy bloom July 4 

 to 13, and later; fruiting abundantly in September. 



The leaves show great diversity of size and form, even in 

 shrubs growing side by side, and the fruit is no less variable, 

 sometimes globose, again oval and somewhat pointed. The 

 largest shrubs seen measured 22 cm. around the trunk near 

 the base and were over 3.5 m. in height. The type of this fine 

 shrub was collected on Nantucket, . September 19, 1899. It 

 occurs also on Tuckernuck, and is much more common on 

 Martha's Vineyard than V. dentatum which it replaces completely 

 on Chappaquiddick Island. 



Reported in Mrs. Owen's list under the name V. molle Michx. 

 *Triosteum perfoliatum L, 



Another native plant that has been found only at a single 

 station on Nantucket— at the foot of a steep thicketed bank by 

 a small pond near Acquidness Point. Here, on September ii, 

 1907, were two strong clusters not two feet apart consisting to- 

 gether of about twenty stems. Two years later it was seen that 

 these plants were succumbing to the closer pressure of the investing 

 woody growth, and in 191 1, when I last visited them, one group 

 had been reduced to three, the other to six weakened stems. In 

 1910 the plants had still been able to bloom, but bore flowers with 

 light yellow corollas instead of the normal red ones they had 

 produced in their days of vigor. Flower buds just visible June 2, 

 1909; nearly open June 7, 1908; in full bloom June 19, 1910. 



LiNXAEA AMERICANA Forbes. 



Mrs. Owen says of this plant: "A patch 15-20 feet in diameter 

 discovered in the pines in 1868 or 1869 by Mr. L. L. Dame. A 

 patch in the pines on the South Shore road discovered in 1872 

 by Miss C. L. Tallant." At the latter locality the plants were 

 seen not more than two years, and Mr. Dame looked in vain for 



