BiCKNELL : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 7 



Note. — Juncus nodosiis L. is included in Mrs. Owen's catalogue 

 on the authority of Professor Edward S. Burgess. In regard to this 

 Professor Burgess writes me that he does not now recall having 

 collected this plant on Nantucket and that there is quite possibly 

 some mistake in the record. 



Juncus canadensis J. Gay. 



Abundant in low grounds and widely variable, presenting very 

 diverse-appearing forms. 



Note, — Junais canadensis var, coarctatns Engelm. [y. brevi- 

 catidatiis {Y.ng^\vci.) Fernald] is included in Mrs. Owen's list. The 

 species may occur but, if so, should be attested as a Nantucket 

 plant by a more specific record. 



Juncus acuminatus Michx. 



Common on pond shores and in wet places generally. On 

 Sept. 2, 1904, it was observed about ponds on the south shore, 

 growing in wet sand and quite generally entering into a second 

 flowering period, many fresh stems with unfolding inflorescence 

 arising among the earlier stems on which the cymes had matured 

 long before and become dried and brown. 



JuNCOiDES campestre (L.) Kuntzc. 



Common either in damp or in dry situations. In full flower 

 June 7 ; by the middle of August it is scarcely to be found ex- 

 cept for an occasional withered stem which may chance to persist. 



In the recently published Gray's New Manual of Botany, it is 

 pointed out that our plant is not the same as the European with 

 which it has always been supposed to be conspecific, and it appears 



ipestris var. nmltifli 



also a European plant. 



MELANTHACEAE 



Oakesia sessilifolia (L.) Wats. 



In low thickets, apparently not common : Millbrook Swamp ; 

 Polpis thickets. No flowers remaining June 9. 



LILIACEAE 



Hemerocallis fulva L. 



Occasional by fence-borders and roadsides and in old fields 

 about and near the town. Large flower-buds June 20. 



