608 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
MALVACEAE 
MALVA ROTUNDIFOLIA L. 
An abundant weed, flowering freely from May through Sep- 
tember and doubtless until frost. 
*MALVA VERTICILLATA L. 
The herbarium of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association 
contains a specimen of this mallow, collected by Mrs. Nellie F. 
Flynn, bearing the record ‘‘ Waste place, Sept. 22, 1902.”’ 
*MALVA MOSCHATA L., 
Several white-flowered plants in full bloom July 9, 1912, ina 
vegetable garden at Surfside; Surfside, Aug. 1909, Mrs. Mary A. 
Albertson; lane off Madequet road, 1905, Mrs. Eleanor W. 
Morgan, fide F. G. Floyd. 
*ALTHAEA ROSEA Cav. 
Freely spontaneous by street sides and in neglected places 
about the town and appearing occasionally in waste lots in the 
suburbs. The seedling plants begin to spring up at the end of 
May. Just in flower in several waste spots July 12, 1912. 
Histscus MoscHeurtos L. 
When in bloom the rose-mallow is conspicuous at a number of 
the shore ponds on the northern and eastern sides of the island, 
but it seems to be quite wanting about the ponds on the south 
shore. At most of its localities it is not abundant, although grow- 
ing in profusion at a few places. It is found at Capaum Pond, 
Reed Pond, Monomoy, Shimmo, Squam Pond, and on Coskaty, 
where it was in full bloom Aug. 16, 1906. Flowers observed as 
late as Sept. II, 1907. 
Mr. Floyd’s notes refer to a form having white flowers with a 
crimson eye found by a small pond in Monomoy by Miss Mary 
Foster Coffin. It is not improbable that this may have been 
Hibiscus oculiroseus Britton, which is not rare on Long Island. 
HY PERICACEAE 
ASCYRUM HYPERICOIDES L. 
Long known from Nantucket, the northeastern limit of its 
range, but not at all a scarce plant there, as has been supposed. 
