BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
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SEPTEMBER 1g12 
The ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket — X 
4 EUGENE P. BICKNELL 
a GERANIACEAE 
_ GERANIUM MACULATUM L. 
Common, but so retiring an inhabitant of dense thickets as to 
_ be little noticeable. Like other spring-flowering plants on Nan- 
a tucket it comes into bloom much later than at more inland points 
in the same general latitude. In fresh flower May 30, 1910; just 
in bloom June 5, 1911; last flowers June 22, 1910. 
GERANIUM RoBERTIANUM L. 
This fragile plant of rocky woods and ravines is one of the 
Surprises of Nantucket, where it has somehow found its way ard 
hides under the cedars on Coatue, a narrow arm of sand, some 
five miles in length, which protects the harbor from Nantucket 
Long ago it was detected there by Mr. Dame—Mrs. 
Owen's record runs ‘‘ Under red cedars near the head of the harbor.”’ 
ft Probably occurs throughout the extent of Coatue, since I met 
_ With it near Second Point, Sept. 7, 1904, scattered here and there 
among the cedars and completely screened from view in the recesses 
beneath their low spreading branches. It remains well established 
there, where I observed it in full ower July 13, 1912. 
A Single plant was seen in the town, growing under a porch 
Liberty Street, in 1909, and again June 16, 1910, then in full 
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RANIUM CAROLINIANUM L. 
Occasional as a weed in disturbed or once cultivated ground, — 
BULLETIN for August 1912 (39:357- 414. pl. 26-32) was issued 16 Au r912.] 
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