416 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
sometimes abounding but readily giving way and disappearing 
before conditions only slightly changed from those that enabled it 
to thrive. Mrs. Owen has told us that it was once found in 
abundance by Mr. Dame in a field near Sachacha, and Mr. Floyd 
has given me the following records: Gibbs Pond, 1901, and Mono- 
moy, 1904, Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn; Pocomo, 1907, Mrs. Mabel P. 
Robinson. I did not myself meet with it until September 1907, 
a single tuft of basal leaves where soil had been upturned on the 
plains east of Miacomet Pond. Here the next year, on June 17, 
were a few plants in flower and fruit. On June 2, 1909, unusually 
widespreading plants in full flower were scattered through a 
once cultivated field at Shimmo Valley farm, where a year later 
not a plant was to be found. On June 4, 1911, a solitary plant 
just in flower was met with west of the town and an abundant 
growth in full flower June 10 in an old field at Quidnet. It 
seems to be spreading on the island and getting to be more 
common. 
*GERANIUM PUSILLUM L. 
Now not uncommon in waste ground in and near the town 
but evidently a newcomer within recent years. It appears to 
have been found first on Nantucket by Mrs. Flynn, Feat 
Street, 1904,” fide F. G. Floyd, who also collected it in Hillers 
Lane in 1906. I first met with it the same year, on Aug. 11; a 
flower and fruit in waste ground west of the town, where also it 
was flowering Sept. 20, 1907, but had disappeared the follow 
year. In 1909 it was abundant and in full flower June 6 ina fiel 
west of the town and was also found a mile to the south. In June 
1910, it was abundant and of unusually large size in 4 lot on 
Pleasant Street and was seen for the first time at eance 
growing by a fisherman’s cottage below the bluff. In ight it - 
appeared in a lawn on the Cliff Road. It occurs also in see 
town on Marthas Vineyard, where I observed it on @ lawn, $ 
in flower Oct. 10, I91T. 
*GERANIUM MOLLE L. North 
A single cluster in a weedy place off Centre Street, near 2 be 
Street, June 3, 1911, showing its first open flower. eadow : 
Sea Cliff Inn, 1897, Mrs. Mabel P. Robinson, fi 
