B14 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



V. stamineum L. Deehbehey. — (Polycodium stamineum 111. 

 Fl. ed. 2.) 



Dry woods; occasional. Mt. Greylock; Stockbridge; Great 

 Barrington; Egremont; Sheffield. 



V. vacillans Kalm. — Dry woods, rocky hillsides and open sum- 

 mits; frequent in the southern part of the valley. 



PRIMULACEAE. PRIMROSE FAMILY. 

 LYSIMACHIA. Loosestrife. 



L. NuMMULAEiA L. MoNEYWOET. — Wet meadows, roadside 

 banks and ditches; frequent. 



X L. producta (Gray) Fernald. — A hybrid between L. quadri- 

 Jolia and L. terrestris. Edge of wet woods, Sandisfield. 



L. quadrifolia L. — Woods; common. 



L. terrestris (L.) BSP. — W'et woods and swamps; common. 



L. thyrsiflora L. — {Naumburgia thyrsiflora 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 



Cold swamps; common. 



L. vuLGAEis L.^ Escaped from cultivation in a thicket on the banks 

 •of the Housatonic River, Great Barrington (W''alters). 



STEIRONEMA. 



S. ciliatum (L.) Raf. — Borders of woods, low ground and road- 

 side thickets; common. A form with crowded flowers on short 

 pedicels from Sandisfield. 



TRIENTALIS. CmcKWEED Wintergrebn. 



T. borealis Raf. Chickweed Winteegeeen. — ( T. americana 

 Man. ed. 7; vid. Rhodora, 11: 236, 1909.) 

 Woods; common. 



oleaceae. olive family. 



FRAXINUS. Ash. 



F. americana L. White Ash. — Rich woods; common. Summit 

 of Greylock. 



forma iodocarpa Fernald. — Occasional with the type, from which 

 it differs in having reddish-purple keys {vid. Rhodora, 14: 192, 1912). 



