CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 85 



field); Southwest Harbor; Sea Wall; Norwood Cove; High 

 Head; Bar Harbor, etc. (Rand); Great Cranberry Isle (E. 

 & E.). 



SPERGULA, L. SPURREY. 

 S. ARVENSIS, L. CORN SPURREY. 



A common weed in cultivated ground. Adventive from 

 Europe. 



Forma RUBRA. 



Flowers deep pink. Field, Salisbury Cove (Eand). 



PORTULACACE^E. PURSLANE FAMILY. 

 MONTIA, L. BLINKS. 



Sepals 2, ovate, persistent, herbaceous. Petals 5, united at 

 base, 3 somewhat smaller. Stamens 3, rarely more, on the tube 

 of the corolla. Ovary free, 3-ovuled: style 3-cleft, very short. 

 Capsule 3-valved, 3-seeded. . Seeds black, dull, tuberculate, rarely 

 smoothish or shining. A small branching glabrous succulent 

 annual, with opposite leaves, and small axillary or racemose 

 flowers. Bot. Cal., i. 77. 



M. fontana, L. 



Stems procumbent or ascending, 1 to 3 inches long: leaves 

 spatulate to linear oblanceolate, 3 to 9 lines long : flowers a line 

 long or less: capsule globose. (Bot. Cal., I. e.) Eare. Damp, 

 brackish ground, Great Cranberry Isle (Eand) ; Great Duck 

 Island (Eedfield). The only stations thus far known within the 

 limits of Gray's Manual, or in Eastern IT. S. Common, however, 

 farther north, and on Pacific shores. 



PORTTJLACA, L. PURSLANE. 



P. OLERACEA, L. PURSLANE. PURSLEY. 



Cultivated and waste grounds. Bar Harbor (Eand, W. H. 

 Manning); Long Pond (Eand). As yet a very uncommon 

 weed on the Island, and probably introduced since 1880. Natu- 

 ralized from Europe. 



