72 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
MEDICAGO LUPULINA L. 
Rather common, mainly along roadsides and in the more 
inhabited parts of the island. First flowers, May 30, 1909; in full 
flower at the middle of September 1907. 
MELILoTUS ALBA Desy. 
In 1904 this plant was found only along the railroad in the 
town, where it was well established; two years later it had extended 
in detached groups here and there along the Siasconset and Wau- 
winet roads and in 1908 had sprung up at several places about the 
town. First flowers June 18, 1908; June 23, IgI0. 
*MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS (L.) Lam. 
First observed by me on Aug. 11, 1906, a cluster in full flower 
in a field near Miacomet Pond; in 1908 a solitary plant was seen 
below the ‘‘Cliff,’’ and a patch south of the town; in 1910 it had 
appeared at another station south of the town and was found on 
June 25 at Sankaty Head, extending in a wide breadth of bloom 
down the face of the bluff. Many years before, it grew at this 
spot, having been found there in abundance in 1888 by Miss 
Elizabeth S. Kite and again, in 1891, by Mrs. Mabel P. Robinson.* 
It was also observed by Mr. Floyd as early as 1895 at Brant 
Point, where it still persists and showed its first opened flowers 
June 3, I91I. 
TRIFOLIUM AUREUM Poll. 
Common in sandy soils and grassy places. First flowers 
June 10, 1908; June 12, 1909; June 15, 1910; also in full flower 
late in September. 
r these records I am indebted to Mr. Frederick G. Floyd, who has sent mé 
a manuscript list of additions to Mrs. Owen’s Catalogue, which he has had in prepa- 
ration since 1905. My own explorations on Nantucket had been carried on in the 
lief that since the publication of Mrs. Owen’s list the island had remained an almost 
neglected botanical field ow mistaken was this belief is disclosed by Mr. Floyd’s . 
manuscript, which shows that the island has continuously inspired the active botan- 
ical interest of many collectors, one or more of whom have made 
new discoveries 
in its flora almost from year to 
And not less an occasion of surprise to me is 
this, that in the many absorbing botanical days I have myself passed exploring this 
garden of the sea it has never been my fortune to encounter a kindred spirit, neither 
a botanist nor an explorer in any branch of nature study. 
It appears from Mr. Floyd’s notes that some of my own supposed discoveries 
were earlier made by others, and it will be a pleasure here to make record of all such 
additions to the island's flora that have received Mr. Fl oyd’s or other adequate veri- 
ti To Mr. Floyd I extend my appreciative acknowledgments for his generous 
coptiibhiios to the greater completeness of the present paper 
