The ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket—IX 
EUGENE P. BICKNELL 
CAESALPINIACEAE 
CassiA CHAMAECHRISTA L. 
Sandy tracts and roadsides east of the town beyond the Creeks, 
extending locally as far as Quaise; also south of the town on the 
road to Surfside. Remaining in flower late in September. Usu- 
ally undersized, often even less than 4 cm. high, with flowers only 
1 cm. long and leaves 5 mm. in length, their minute leaflets reduced 
to three or four pairs. 
Note.—The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L.) is sparingly 
spontaneous about a row of rather large trees bordering the 
Wauwinet road at Eatfire. 
PAPILIONACEAE 
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA (L.) R. Br. 
Scattered widely over the plains and moorland, often forming 
open groups, but nowhere thickly massed in extensive growths as 
on Long Island. On June 3, 1909, the most advanced plants were 
about one foot high; a precocious flower June 17, 1908. 
ULEX EUROPAEUS L. : 
Mrs. Owen has told us (Cat. p. 22) that the furze or gorse 
was introduced on Nantucket by John O’Connell about the year 
1860, and that at the time she wrote, in 1888, it was still growing 
on his farm near Hummock Pond, where it had spread both 
within the fence and along the road on the outside. Today the 
O’Connell farm belongs wholly to the past and little evidence 
remains of the enterprise of the pioneer who there once gave culti- 
vation to the land. Not even the remains of any building mark 
the wild surroundings, and the road and old fence of which Mrs. 
Owen has spoken may be traced only by those who know where 
to look among the growth of pines and shrubbery which has all 
but completed its work of obliteration. Where the labor of the 
