BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 619 
June 15, 1910. In the autumn, sometimes as early as September, 
the basal shoots may be found beneath the surface of the sand 
so densely invested with white pubescence as to appear as if 
coated with hoar frost. 
*LECHEA LEGGETTII Britton & Hollick. 
L. moniliformis Bicknell. 
Not rare on the eastern side of the island from Reuwindt to 
Polpis, Gibbs’ swamp and Tom Never’s swamp; one station near 
Madequecham Pond on the south shore. It is found in low 
grounds spreading to dry sandy levels near wet places; in one 
instance it grew on the border of a sphagnum bog, and in another 
in wet soil along a brackish marsh. 
Plants 6 inches high June 24, 1910; flower buds well advanced 
Aug. 7, 1906; some mature pods Aug. 31, 1904. 
This, in its extreme phase, is the plant described by me some 
years ago as Lechea moniliformis. The type specimens, as well as 
others like them from Long Island, mark a pronounced departure 
from typical L. Leggettii. Other specimens from Nantucket and 
Long Island are less distinctive and I am in doubt whether it is 
well to rate the plant as other than a variety of the common 
species. Nevertheless, it has points of distinction which need 
no second glance to impress any one who may be familiar with the 
common inland form of the species, for L. moniliformis would 
appear to be a plant of the coastal plain, and there is as yet no 
evidence that it does not belong exclusively among our coastal 
plain species. Moreover it shows this difference in habits from 
the more inland plant of dry open places and hilly ground, that 
it is of low grounds often of wet and brackish soils. A better 
knowledge may show that its distinctive name should be restored, 
but for the present let it be merged with L. Leggettit. I take to 
be typical of the latter the plant that I used to find among the 
hills and rocky outcroppings along the Hudson near New York 
and which, found also in New Jersey and on Staten Island, largely 
made up the material studied by Leggett and by Britton & 
Hollick. - compared with this = _ distinguishing characters 
of L. e the slender a gated flowering branchlets 
and the markedly secund and moniliform inflorescence, for in the 
