﻿FLOWERING PLANTS OF NaNTUCKET 349 



his plants in 1886. Mr. Floyd writes me that "Mrs. Owen told 

 me not very long before her death that the plant still persisted 

 at one station on Nantucket." 

 *Symphoricarpos Symphoricarpos (L.) MacM. 



Symphoricarpos vulgaris Michx, 



"Road opposite Barzilliai Cofifin farm September i, 1912, 

 in full flower. Miss Grace Brown Gardner." 

 *LoNiCERA japonica Thunb. 



Occasional by fence rows and roadsides in the general town 

 region, less often by fieldsides and the borders of meadows. In 

 full flower June 27, 191 2. 



CUCURBITACEAE 



MiCRAMPELis lobata (Michx.) Greene. 



Occasional in waste places in and near the town. In full 

 flower late in August. 

 SiCYOS angulatus L. 



At a few places in damp lots and by fences in the town; by the 

 railroad in Washington street. 



CAMPANULACEAE 



^Campanula rapunculoides L. 



Occasional by street sides and in waste ground in the town, 

 more rarely by roadsides in the suburbs. First flowers June 27, 

 1 910, June 29, 1912; in full bloom at the end of August, 1904. 

 Specularly perfoll\ta L. 



Rare: Acquidness Point, knoll and hillside thicket east of 

 Shimmo farm, June 7, 1911; Rattlesnake bank, July i, 1912. 

 Only a few plants at each station and no petaliferous flowers. 



LOBELIACEAE 

 Lobell\ cardinalis L. 



A few plants along Watt's Run September 6, 1904, and much 

 of it in flaming bloom at the same locality September 17, 1907; 

 Quaise and Polpis, M. L. O. 



Note. — Lobelia inflata L. is included in Mrs. Owen's catalogue. 

 Nothing is known of it as a Nantucket plant at the present day, 

 nor have I seen it on Martha's Vineyard. 



