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Galium cireaezans, Michx. (Wild Liquorice.) 



Chebacco, Newbury, Amesbury, Boxford, etc. Not uncommon 



in the woods. 

 Galium lanceolatum, Torrey. 



Chebacco, Boxford, etc. Not uncommon in similar places to the 



last. 



Cephalanthus oecidentalis, L. (Button-Bush.) 

 Around pond holes and brooks. A homely shrub and very common. 



Mitchella repens, i. (Mitchella.) 

 Very common, forming carpets In the woods. Earely found with 

 white berries. 



Hpustonia eserulea, L. (Houstonia.) 

 Very common In pastures and by roadsides. A most lovely spring 

 flower varying from white to quite deep blue. 



DIPSACE^. 



(Teasel Family.) 



Dipsacus sylvestris, Mill. (Wild Teasel.) 

 Danvers, 1853 (Dr. Osgood's list) and noticed later by Mr. Sears. 



COM:POSIT.ffi!. 



(Composite Family.) 



Iiiatris scariosa, Willd. (Blazing-Star.) 

 Abundant in the region of Topsfield; "scarce In Lynn" (Tracy); 

 Salisbury (G. D. Phippen) ; " Howes farm, Danvers, 1829" (memo. 

 Rev. J. L. Eussell). Not observed In the Cape region. 



Eupatorium purpureum, L. 



Very common in damp soil. " Eight feet high in Middleton, Aug. 

 21, 1861." (Proc. B. I., Vol. III). 

 Eupatorium teucrifolium, Willd. 

 Georgetown; Essex; Lynnfleld (Rev. A. P. Chute); "Bowler 

 swamp, Lynn " (Tracy) ; Hamilton (G. D. Phippen) ; Danvers 

 (Dr. Osgood's list). Scarce. 



