618 BIcKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA Nutt. 
Very abundant, blanketing the dunes and reaches of white 
sand back of the beaches and occurring on sandy exposures all 
over the island. It is sometimes found in association with the 
preceding but seems not to mix readily with any other plant. 
Close to blooming June 3, 1911; in full flower June 7, 1908, June 15, 
1910, and some flowers remaining June 27; last flowers July 2, 
1912, on the exposed ocean front at Siasconset, where many plants 
flower later than in more protected parts of the island. Ordinarily 
it begins to flower a little earlier than Hudsonia ericoides. 
LECHEA MINOR L. 
Abundant on the eastern side of the island from Wauwinet 
to Saul’s Hills and Siasconset, extending west. to Shawkemo and 
through the South Pasture to Surfside; not seen on the western 
side of the island. The season’s shoots a few inches high June 23, 
1910. 
LECHEA VILLOSA EIl. 
Much less common than the preceding but like it restricted 
mainly or entirely to the eastern side of the island, having a 
scattered distribution from Wauwinet to Siasconset and . the 
South Pasture and from Pocomo to Shawkemo and Saul’s Hills. 
LECHEA MARITIMA Leggett. 
One of the island’s most common plants, appearing every- 
where in dry sandy soil, even to the tops of Saul’s Hills. It 
makes its best growth in pure sand, where it becomes widely 
branched and densely canescent. In less simple soils amid the 
low vegetation of the moorland or in partial shade it is more 
thinly canescent and shorter-branched, having a narrower panicle 
and closer inflorescence. Such forms take on a likeness to Lechea 
juniperina that seems almost to shadow the origin of that more 
northern species. Sometimes on rising ground in open growths 
of pines or other trees it may become very slender and greener, 
with more scattered leaves and branches, more slenderly branched 
and open panicle of longer-pedicelled flowers and rather larger 
fruiting calyx—var. interior Robinson. 
In full flower Sept. 3, 1904, Sept. 11, 1899; small new shoots 
