460 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
*AMYGDALUS PERSICA L. 
Spontaneous in waste spots about the town and occasionally 
at more distant points; on the bluff at Siasconset; one small tree 
on the old south road, about two miles from the town; a single 
tree about ten feet high at the border of a thicket in Squam. 
*PRUNUS AMERICANA Marsh. 
A small colony among pines on the road to Surfside, about a 
mile from the town, some of the trees very young, others about 
eight feet high; doubtless introduced. Still in blossom June 6, 
1909. 
