BICKNELL : FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 55 
* SALSOLA CAROLINIANA Walter. 
Sparingly along the ocean side of Sachacha Pond and on the 
adjoining sea-beach. 
AMARANTHACEAE 
AMARANTHUS RETROFLEXUS L. 
Less common than the next; August, September. 
* AMARANTHUS HYBRIDUS L, 
A common weed of cultivated fields and waste places; August, 
September. Either coarse and erect, or more slender and de- 
pressed with fewer and more elongated spikes. A single plant 
seen with purplish-tinged panicle. 
AMARANTHUS GRAECIZANS L. 
A common weed, sometimes abundant in cultivated fields 
flowering through summer and autumn. 
* AMARANTHUS BLITOIDES S. Wats. 
Sparingly along the railroad on Washington Street, 1899 to 
1907; farm yard in Polpis, 1906; in full flower August and 
September. 
AMARANTHUS PUMILUS Raf. 
“On the beach. S. T. Olney, 1849.” (M. L. Owen, Cat. 
50.) The range of this species is commonly given as extending 
no further east than Rhode Island, yet Olney’s record is explicit 
and I know of no reason why it should not be accepted as authen- 
tic, especially in the case of so unmistakable a plant. Nor is this 
the only record of the occurrence of the species in Massachusetts. 
In Hovey’s Magazine (13: 219. 1847), itis mentioned by William 
Oakes as having been found at Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard, in 
1820. 
PHYTOLACCACEAE 
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA L. 
Occasional in waste places near the town and in burned-over 
spots in the pine scrub; Quaise; Wauwinet. In full flower and 
fruit September 4, 1904. 
