1919] Long,— Jasione montana in New Jersey 107 
. The species is a quite curious and unique one in our flora and at 
first glance suggests little of its alliance to our Harebell and other 
Bellflowers of the genus Campanula. With its tiny flowers in close, 
hemispheric heads subtended by an involucre it more nearly simulates 
a Composite. The handsome pale blue of the corolla is strikingly 
offset in the fresh flower by a pink, exserted, club-shaped body which 
proves to be the stigma. No less curious are the rounded, burlike 
fruiting heads, prickly with the pointed, persistent calyx-lobes topping 
the capsules. 
Having in mind that the original station was said to be about two 
miles out from Lakewood it seemed worth while to continue further 
along the River Road. Within a short distance another spot was seen 
where the plant was frequent, then a third, a fourth, till at least a 
dozen distinct stations were noted between Lakewood and Seven 
Stars School, three miles south — some of thousands of plants, some 
few, of course. It was found most frequent within a mile or a mile 
and a half of Lakewood — a common and conspicuous plant — ap- 
parently disappearing as Seven Stars was approached. 
The most characteristic habitats were open, sandy areas — old 
fallow fields, neglected gardens, dooryards, roadsides — in general, 
cleared areas associated with settlement and cultivation. One 
station of a particularly interesting type was observed within a mile 
of Lakewood. Some years ago this spot was evidently cleared and 
a wide road run through in the process of "land improvement." 
Now there is only a narrow wagon track winding through the sand 
and the cleared area is growing up with Pines and Oaks and the 
regular pine-barren types of the adjacent native flora. In some places 
the woodland has already come back; in others are only thickets; 
nearest the River Road is still open sand, characterized by Euphorbia 
Ipecacuanhae, Eupatorium album, Carex pennsylvanica. In this asso- 
 ciation, in the most sterile, sun-scorched sand, as well as among 
the thickets of young Pitch Pine and Sassafras, and in the shade of the 
woods, Jasione montana is very frequent and has all the appearance 
of a native plant — so thoroughly has it adapted itself here. The 
much greater robustness of the plants in the open sun is clearly indi- 
cative of its preferred habitat but its occurrence in the woods shows 
it to be tolerant of varying conditions. 
In the course of my ramblings about one of the larger colonies a 
farmer was encountered. Upon inquiry whether the plant in his 
