BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 75 
Pond; on the north side of the island not seen west of Shawkemo. 
In full flower and abundant fruit Sept. 1, 1904; last flowers Sept. 
II, 1899. 
Except on Nantucket I have not noticed that this plant may 
relax from its erect or stiffly ascending habit. Here it is frequently 
quite prostrate, the slenderly elongated stems and branches of the 
panicle proceeding almost in the trailing manner of a Lespedeza 
among the grass and low plants of the dry open places where it 
grows. These prostrate forms are more slender and less pubescent 
than normal suberect states of the plant and have less numerous 
and crowded leaves with thinner leaflets. 
*MEIBOMIA RIGIDA (Ell.) Kuntze. 
Growing sparingly on a dry open slope in Squam, Sept. 21, 
1907, and bearing abundant fruit; rather a small form of the plant 
becoming 6 dm. high, the leaflets 3-4 cm. long by 1.5 cm. wide. 
*MEIBOMIA CANADENSIS (L.) Kuntze. 
Mrs, Nellie F. Flynn has sent me a flowering specimen of this 
tick trefoil, which was collected on Nantucket Aug. 13, 1904, by 
Mrs. Eleanor W. Morgan, no locality being given. 
*MEIBOMIA SESSILIFOLIA (Torr.) Kuntze. 
In the herbarium of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association 
I found a sheet of this species, which had been collected on Nan- 
tucket by Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn Aug. 23, 1901. In regard to this 
specimen Mrs. Flynn has written me that she collected it “by a 
roadside just west of the farm house near and west of Nobadeer 
Pond,” where it grew very sparingly. 
LESPEDEZA PROCUMBENS Michx. 
Locally common in open pine scrub and on the plains and 
commons, occurring in all quarters of the island. Stems a few 
inches long June 7, 1909; small flower buds Aug. 11, 1906; first 
flowers Aug. 29, 1904; in full flower Sept. 1 to 15. 
On Nantucket this species is subject to much variation in 
degree of pubescence and in other characters. Two varieties are 
especially to be noted, one whitened with a dense velvety pubes- 
cence, the other having a looser pubescence of shorter, less spread- 
ing hairs and flowers tending to be smaller and of somewhat 
different proportions, the petals narrower, the wings often sur- 
