FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 425, 
many of whose plants would be looked for in vain elsewhere on 
the island. So it is that more than one hundred introduced plants 
have been reported only from the general district of the town. 
Additions to this domesticated flora now follow on almost from 
year to year. Freshly seeded lawns and modern gardens add 
their new comers, and suburban fields where rubbish has been 
cast encourage the growth of adventitious plants that take their 
foothold either transiently or tenaciously as time shall prove. 
Among introduced species not everywhere found that are 
well established in the town flora but are rarely if at all seen 
elsewhere on the island are the following: 
Pucctnellia distans Viola laetecaerulea 
Bromus sterilis Aethusa Cynapium 
Carex hirta Marrubium vulgare 
Iris pseudacorus Physalodes Physalodes 
Lychnis dioica Solanum peregrinum 
Chelidonium majus Tragopogon pratense 
Geranium pusillum Sonchus arvensis 
Some rather unusual alien plants have made their appear- 
ance within recent years in different parts of the island about 
abandoned spots where poultry has been kept, their source of 
introduction doubtless being the prepared chicken feed now in 
general use. The mixed growth of weeds that throng such places: 
have yielded the following species, very few of which have been. 
found elsewhere: 
Vaccaria Vaccaria Conringia orientalis 
Lepidium neglectum Lappula Lappula 
Thlaspi arvense Amsinckia arenaria 
Nesha paniculata Lithospermum arvense 
Erysimum cheiranthoides Centaurea melitensis 
In addition to those abundant naturalized plants that every- 
where enrich our flora Nantucket has adopted into its vegetation 
some less usual species that now, common and wide-spread, assert 
themselves as characteristic island plants. The following may 
especially be named: 
Alopecurus pratensis Festuca myuros 
a geniculatus “ capillata 
