414 PiIckNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
KALMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA L. 
Common in moist levels about sphagnum bogs and also 
entering freely into the low woody growth of dry level tracts in 
low grounds or on the moorland. First flowers June 7, 1908; 
June 10, 1911, and generally coming into bloom June 15; June 
12, 1909; still in flower July 13, 1912. Not rarely a few flowers 
open in the autumn, even late in September. 
XOLISMA LIGUSTRINA (L.) Britton. 
Abundant in low grounds either in moist or in drier soils. 
First flowers July 1, 1912, in full flower generally by July 4. 
This is one of the strong and rigidly branched shrubs that 
especially combine with the high bush blueberry to give resistance 
and impenetrability to the Nantucket swampy thickets. It mixes 
also with the Azaleas, Aronias and Amelanchiers, Clethra alnifolia, 
Ilex fastigiata, and other less abundant species that make up.the 
dense thickety growths that invest many of the ponds and pools. 
CHAMAEDAPHNE CALYCULATA (L.) Moench. 
Locally common in very wet bogs. Still in flower May 31, 
1909; only dried corollas remaining June 3, 1911. 
EPIGAEA REPENS L. 
On Nantucket, contrary to its usual habits, the trailing arbutus 
favors less the seclusion of woodland or pine groves than the ex- 
posure of open barrens where the sun beats upon it all through 
the season contracting its growth into little compact mats flattened 
upon the sandy soil. It even grows tenaciously on the bare tops 
of the rolling hills, and is common over the plains on the south side 
of the island, in some places extending quite to the edge of the 
low bank along the ocean shore. 
I have never been on Nantucket early enough in the spring to 
see it in bloom, but in the deep shade of the Miacomet pines, on 
June 3, 1909, the dried corollas were not yet all fallen away. 
GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS L. 
Locally very common on heaths and dry level tracts among low 
trees and shrubbery, sometimes in moister soil at the borders of 
sphagnum bogs. Ripe fruit in September, 1899, and fruit still 
persistent June I, 1909. 
