BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 75 
A single plant with white flowers was found in Gibbs Swamp by 
Mr. Dame in 1895 (F. G. Floyd). 
EPILOBIUM HIRSUTUM L. 
Common in the lower parts of the town and out into the 
suburbs, often massed along ditches and in the corners of damp 
lots and low fields; also by the roadside in Shawkemo, the only 
place where I saw it far out from the town. Mr. Floyd reports 
that it was found by Mr. Dame in 1895 well established at Gibbs 
Swamp, where it was very common the following year coming in 
with the preceding species after an extensive brush fire. According 
to Mrs. Owen its introduction on the island was in or about the 
year 1855, when it was raised in a garden in Union Street, subse- 
quently spreading into waste places. 
First flowers July 6, 1912; blooming through September. 
On the uninhabited southern extremity of Chappaquiddick 
Island, Marthas Vineyard, a single plant, still in flower, was found 
Sept. 28, 1912, growing with an abundance of Chemaenerion 
angustifolium in a grove of pines which had been swept by fire 
early in the same year. 
* EPILOBIUM PALUSTRE L. 
Rare and local; sphagnum bogs in Squam and west of San- 
katy and near Reed Pond, also Tom Nevers Swamp. It appears 
to flower earlier than Epilobium lineare; mature fruit Aug. 13, 
1908. Still some flowers Sept. 11, 1907. Collected at one station 
on Marthas Vineyard. This is the slender little bog plant that 
has been called var. monticola Haussk. Its variations are con- 
siderable, however, and take it into forms that are close to typical 
palustre as well as into others that nearly match specimens of 
var. labradoricum Haussk. It is from 1-2 dm. high, erect, often 
with decumbent base and sometimes stoloniferous, simple with a 
single terminal flower or well branched, the glabrate leaves numer- 
ous and closely ascending or more distant and spreading, sessile 
or petiolulate, 1-3 cm. long, I-4 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate to 
oblanceolate or oval-oblong, either tapering or contracted to the 
rounded apex, thickish or rather thin; pedicels very slender, mostly 
elongated, sometimes longer than the pod, again only one quarter 
its length. 
