318 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
HYDROPHYLLACEAE. WATER LEAF FAMILY. 
HYDROPHYLLUM. Waterleaf. 
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. 
BOliAGINACEAE. BORAGE FAMILY. 
CYNOGLOSSUM. Hound's Tongue. 
C. boreale Fernald. — Clearings and open woods; occasional. 
Stockbridge; Great Barrington. 
C. OFFICINALE L. CoMMON Hound's Tongue. — Pasturcs; occa- 
sional. 
ECHIUM. Viper's Bugloss. 
E. vuLGAKE 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 jVIarlboro. Occasional 
on the flood-plain of the Deerfield River, Florida. According to 
Bascom (Berkshire Hist, and Sci. Soc, 3: 307, 1899) Echium 
vulgare first appeared in the County in 1849. 
forma albiflorum, f . nov. — Corollis 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. — (Z. Lapjnila 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Railroad track, Pittsfield (Churchill); adventive in chicken-yard, 
Stockbridge. 
L. virginiana (L.) Greene. Stickseed; Beggar's Lice. — Open 
woods, thickets and rich soil along streams; frequent in the valley. 
LITHOSPERMUM. Gromwell. 
L. arvense L. — Adventive in waste ground. Great Barrington. 
L. officinale L. — Open hillsides and roadside thickets; occasional 
