CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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field); — Southwest Harbor; Sea Wall; Norwood Cove; High 
Head; Bar Harbor, etc. (Rand); — Great Cranberry Isle (R. 
& R.). 
SPERGULA, L. Spubebt. 
S. AEVENSIS, L. Corn Spcekey. 
rated ground. Adventive from C ^ ^* 
A common weed in ( 
Europe. (4^ Choili. tf ,, &^..T 
Forma etjbea. 
Blowers deep pink. Field, Salisbury Cove (Rand). 
PORTULACACE.^. Pueslanb Family. 
MONTIA, L. Blinks. 
Sepals 2, ovate, persistent, herbaceous. Petals 5, united at 
base, 3 somewhat smaller. Stamens 3, rarely more, on the tube 
of the corolla. Ovary free, 3-ovuled; style 3-cleft, very short. 
Capsule 3-valved, 3-8eeded. Seeds black, dull, tuberculate, rarely 
smoothish or shining.— A small branching glabrous succulent 
annual, with opposite leaves, and small axillary or racemose 
flowers. Bot. Cal., i. 77. 
M. fontana, L. 
Stems procumbent or ascending, 1 to 3 inches long: leaves 
spatulate to linear oblanceolate, 3 to 9 lines long: flowers a line 
long or less: capsule globose. (Bot. Cal., 1. c.) Rare. Damp, 
brackish ground. Great Cranberry Isle (Rand); — Great Duck 
Island (Redfield). The only stations thus far known within the 
limits of Gray’s Manual, or in Eastern TJ. S. Common, however. 
farther north, and on Pacific shores. 
PORTULACA, L. Pueslanb. 
P. OLEEACEA, L. PuKSLANE. PuKSLEY. 
Cultivated and waste grounds. Bar Harbor (Rand, W. H.^» 
Manning); — Long Pond (Rand). As yet a very uncommon 
weed on the Island, and probably introduced since 1880. Natu¬ 
ralized from Europe. 
