Flora of Mount Desert annotated catalogue of plants
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132 FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. LINARIA, JUSS. TOAD FLAX. L. Canadensis (L.), Dumont. WILD TOAD FLAX. Frequent in dry soil. An exceedingly depauperate form in brown gravelly hollows among rocks, especially on the mountains. Browns Mt.; Flying Mt., etc. (Rand);—shore, Northeast Harbor (B. E. J. Gresham);—Baker Island (Redfield). L. VULGARIS, Mill. BUTTER-AND-EGGS. Roadsides; infrequent. Southwest Harbor; Town Hill; Great Cranberry Isle (Rand);—Baker Island (Redfield). CHELONE, L. SNAKE-HEAD. TURTLE-HEAD. C. glabra, L. Wet places, along brooks and rills; frequent. ILYSANTHES, Raf. I. riparia, Raf. I. gratioloides (L.), Benth. FALSE PIMPERNEL. Rare. Muddy border of Somes Stream (R. & R.);—shore of little mill-pond, Somesville (Rand). VERONICA, L. SPEEDWELL. V. scutellata, L. MARSH SPEEDWELL. Boggy ground; infrequent. Northeast Harbor (William H. Dunbar);—Ripples Pond; High Head meadow; bog near Sea Wall (Rand);—"Mt. Desert" (F. M. Day). V. officinalis, L. COMMON SPEEDWELL. Dry ground; rare and local. Roadsides and fields, Salisbury Cove (Faxon, R. & R.);—"Norway Drive," south of Salisbury Cove (Rand, Mary Minot). Apparently confined to the neighborhood of Salisbury Cove, and appearing both introduced and indigenous. V. serpyllifolia, L. THYME-LEAVED SPEEDWELL. Fields, clearings, and roadsides; common. Apparently both introduced and indigenous.