List of the plants of Nantucket as a basis for a list of the plants of Marth's Vineyard, 1909-1918
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(Chrysanthemum parthenium) Waste ground in town. Some flowers still. Sep 15. I pm. In afternoon went of Water tower and on across the plains to Great Pond. Pinus strobus - a single tree of three trunks united into one near the base about 30 ft high among the pitch pines perhaps a half mile N. of the watertower. No indication of the ground ever having been disturbed any more than by cultivation. The locality was an extensive tract hundreds of acres in extent of pines & scrub oak & arboreal oaks. Not far away, however, were several scatins less 6-20 ft tall, of (Pinus sylvestris) the largest bearing a few small cones. Panicum ashei, Dry pasture through out scrub. N. of the town. (Perobolus vacciniiflorus) dry clayey depression which had earlier been wet, in field N. of the town.