1916] Long, — Primus cuneata in southern New Jersey 67 



begun. Much time had been spent upon the Pine Barrens, however, 

 and it was hoped that its plant life had been worked out with a fair 

 degree of completeness. Though a number of species, having a general 

 distribution in the Middle District, have been shown to have an occur- 

 rence, or a wider distribution, in the Pine Barrens than was originally 

 supposed, this hope has been in large measure realized. In fact no 

 species of any particular significance, so far as I am aware, has been 

 added to the Pine Barren flora until during the past summer. The 

 discovery in the "Pines" of an apparently indigenous species, hereto- 

 fore unknown in southern New Jersey, is therefore of some interest 

 to at least the local botany of the region. 



On July 10, 1915, on the middle eastern edge of the Pine Barrens, 

 I was hurrying over the supposedly quite uniform dry pine woods 

 in order to spend the time more advantageously at interlying bogs 

 and streams, between two obscure flag-stations on the Tuckerton 

 Railroad called Waretown Junction and Lacy. I had been seeing 

 so frequently the low bushes of Black Chokeberry, Aroma mclano- 

 carya, in immature fruit, that my casual glance had almost passed 

 some similar little shrubs, when their dark fruit and pale foliage stirred 

 a recollection of sand-plain New England, and I found myself standing 

 on the edge of a colony of Primus cuneata, in abundant ripe and green 

 fruit. 



The locality is southeast of Lacy on the North Branch of Forked 

 River where it crosses the Tuckerton Railroad. At the summit of 

 the deep railroad cut through the rise of ground immediately southeast 

 of the Branch it appears to be most abundant, thriving in the regula- 

 tion dry, sandy, scrubby growth of the Pine Barrens, among Sweet 

 Fern, Black Huckleberry, Low Blueberry, Scrub Oaks, etc. Some of 

 the plants are on the very edge of the cut with the long, stocky roots 

 exposed in the sliding yellow gravel, but most of them are some dis- 

 tance back in the thin, open scrub-growth. 



This general region is rather subject to forest fires and the railroad 

 right-of-way is kept well cleared. Much of the shrubbery has suffered 

 from the scythe and the low habit of some of the Prunus plants ap- 

 pears to be due to this chance pruning. Further northwest, on the 

 gravel fill connecting the bridge over the North Branch, the plant is 

 again frequent. It is here much taller and more luxuriant, becoming 

 a foot or more in height with tall rank shoots of the year and large 

 leaves. 



