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Amelanehier Canadensis, T. & a. (Shadbush; Juneberry.) 

 Common In low lands. This is the large form with long petals and 

 reddish leaves in Spring. (Var. Botryapium Gray's Manual.) 



Var. oblongifolia. 

 Equally common, but not so large as the last; leaves downy -vvhen 

 young, petals shorter. Tracy speaks of "a curious variety found 

 at "Norman's "Woe," Gloucester, which fruits when only three feet 

 high." 



SAXirRAGACE^. 



(SAXtPKAGB Family.) 



Ribes oxycanthoides, L., Eibes hirtellum, Michx. (Gray's 

 Manual). (Common "Wild Goosbberry.) 

 Frequent in low grounds. 



Ribes floridum, L'Ber. ("Wild Black Cuerant.) 

 Danvers, Amesbury, Ipswich (Oakes). Not rare. " Much like the 

 Black Currant of the gardens" (Gray's Manual), 



Ribes nigrum, of Europe, which is spontaneous near old gardens. 



Ribes rubrum, L. (Eed Currant.) 

 The specimens found in the county have probably all escaped from 

 garden plants introduced from Europe, although this species Is in- 

 digenous northward. Quite common in the older towns. 



Ribes aureum, Pursh. (Missouri Currant.) 

 Common in old gardens and sometimes found in neglected places. 

 (Int. from the "West.) 



Philadelphus eoronarius, L. (Mock Orange.) 



This species is, in common with others of the genus, wrongly called 

 "Syringa" which is the botanical name for the "Lilac." It is 

 occasionally found by the roadside escaped from gardens. (Proba- 

 bly introduced from Japan.) 



Parnassia Carolinlana, Michx. (Grass op Parnassus.) 

 Georgetown (Mrs. Horner) ; Lynnfield(Rev. A. P. Chute) ; "meadow 

 near Howe's farm" (memo. Eev. J. L. Russell) ; Marblehead (Tracy) ; 

 Hamilton (G. D. Phippen) ; Topsfield. Scarce, although found in a 

 number of places. 



Saxifraga "Virginiensis, Michx. (Early Saxifrage.) 

 Very common in exposed nocky places. 



"Var. chlorantha (Oakes, in Hovey's Mag. Vol. XIII) is a form 

 having green flowers, probably an abnormal condition of the ordi- 

 nary plant. 



Saxifraga Pennsylvanica, L. (Swamp Saxitragb.) 

 Common in meadows. 



