318 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



HYDROPHYLLACEAE. WATER LEAF. FAMILY. 

 HYDROPHYLLUM. Watehlbaf. 



H. canadense L. — Borders of mountain brooks at the base of Mt. 

 Greylock, Williamstown; Cheshire (Winslow). 



H. virginianum L. — Rich woods; common. Valley of the 

 Deerfield River, Florida; altitude 2000 feet, Berry Mt., Hancock. 



BORAGINACEAE. BORAGE FAMILY. 

 CYNOGLOSSUM. Hound's Tongue. 



C. boreale Fernald. — Clearings and open woods; occasional. 

 Stockbridge; Great Barrington. 



C. OFFICINALE L. CoMMON Hound's Tongue. — Pastures; occa- 

 sional. 



ECHIUM. Viper's Buqi^oss. 



E. VULGAEE L. Blue-weed. — Dry gravelly soil, open hillsides, 

 along railroad tracks and stony flood-plains; locally common in the 

 western part of the valley and in southern New Marlboro. Occasional 

 on the flood-plain of the Deerfield River, Florida. According to 

 Bascom (Berkshire Hist, and Sci. Soc, 3': 307, 1899) Echium 

 milgare first appeared in the County in 1849. 



forma albiflokum, f . nov. — CoroUis albis. Flowers white. 



With the type, Egremont. Type specimen in the herbarium of 

 the N. E. B. C. collected on the stony flood-plain of Green River, 

 Egremont, July 15, 1920 (Hoffmann). 



LAPPULA. Stickseed. 



L. ECHiNATA Gilibert.' — (i. Lappula 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 



Railroad track, Pittsfield (Churchill); adventive in chicken-yard, 



Stockbridge. 

 L. virginiana (L.) Greene. Stickseed; Beggae's Lice. — Open 



woods, thickets and rich soil along streams; frequent in the valley. 



LITHOSPERMUM. Geomwell. 



L. aevense L. — Adventive in waste ground. Great Barrington. 

 L. officinale L. — Open hillsides and roadside thickets; occasional 



