1920] Long,—Gentiana Andrewsii in New Jersey 105 
rather rarely, near Cape May." This concise statement, summariz- 
ing previous reports, on its face, raises no challenge. But in Dr. 
Stone's work, with its detailed list of localities and notation of speci- 
mens as distinguished from mere records, one at once notices that 
out of eight localities only half are supported by verifying specimens. 
This in itself, in a work so carefully compiled, need not have attracted 
attention, had not a personal element entered into consideration— 
a continual failure during more than ten years rather systematized 
field-work, to find Gentiana Andrewsii growing in southern New 
Jersey. 
This circumstance led to a thorough examination into the gener- 
ally accepted occurrence of G. Andrewsii in the area. During the 
past several decades, as Prof. Fernald has pointed out, there seems 
to have been a strong tendency to refer all our Closed Gentians to 
G. Andrewsii. This coupled with the fact that half of the localities 
noted by Dr. Stone are fairly old records, apparently unsubstantiated 
by specimens, was at once suggestive. Furthermore, a critical 
examination of the specimens cited and exploration of stations re- 
corded for the species led to some rather definite conclusions. 
There are three specimens at the Philadelphia Academy referred 
to G. Andrewsii—from Kaighn's Point, Absecon, and Cape May. 
That from Kaighn's Point, Camden, is a large, excellent specimen, 
collected some years ago by Alexander MacElwee, and is quite 
above reproach. Mr. MacElwee tells me that he definitely recalls 
the collection of the plant. It grew in a large clump on open marshes 
along the Delaware River above Kaighn's Point. It is well known 
that many interesting upland species have been collected from the 
marsh- and swamp-land about Kaighn's Point in former days. 
Whether the plant actually occurs there now is another matter: 
every year sees less and less of the natural marsh-land in this part of 
Camden. Further up the Delaware, in the Coastal Plain area of 
Mercer County, G. Andrewsii occurs below Trenton on the edge of 
alluvial marshes of the river: probably a habitat very similar to that 
at Camden. 
Considerable light is thrown upon the Absecon material of G. 
Andrewsii by an examination of the specimen supporting the record 
of G. Saponaria from the same locality. With our present know- 
ledge of the group, the basis of this proves to be a specimen of G. 
clausa. This material bears an original label and is part of the col- 
