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lector's own herbarium. The specimen of G. Andrewsii, with iden- 
tical label data, is a portion of another herbarium and was undoubt- 
edly received from the original collector as a duplicate. G. Sapon- 
aria is unquestionably the species to be expected in southern New 
Jersey, and it seems very unlikely that both these characteristically 
upland species should have been found at the far edge of the Pine 
Barrens and on almost the outer margin of the Coastal Plain. "This 
collector's specimens, unfortunately, are not always above suspicion, 
and in the present case some mixing of material must have occurred. 
Until corroborative evidence is obtained on the presence of G. An- 
drewsii and G. clausa at Absecon the authenticity of these specimens 
may be doubted. 
The record in Britton’s Catalogue of G. Andrewsii at Absecon, 
however, suggested the veritable occurrence of a gentian of this type 
at this locality. Through the kindness of some friends and a resident 
naturalist of Absecon, I was assured that Gentiana Andrewsii could 
be found along Ohio Avenue. This street proved to parallel Abse- 
con or Doughty Creek, and without difficulty I was able to find in late 
autumn of 1917, along moist thicket-margins and swales bordering 
the creek, specimens of Gentiana Saponaria—but no other. 
The Cape May basis of G. Andrewsii consists of two small speci- 
mens of that species, with a label not written by the collector, re- 
ceived among accumulated material given the Academy. Demon- 
strated errors in other critical cases support a common belief that 
the label-data of this collector’s plants was frequently compiled from 
memory long after collection—and must be valued accordingly. Mr. 
O. H. Brown, one of the most acute field-observers and collectors 
in New Jersey, who has spent many years specializing in Cape May 
County, writes me that he knows nothing of G. Andrewsii in Cape 
May other than the record in The Plants of Southern New Jersey. 
I am confident that the specimen basis of this record cannot be ac- 
cepted as authentic. Material from Cape May Court House, col- 
lected by myself, and from Fishing Creek, Bennett and Cold Spring, 
by Mr. Brown, shows that the characteristic gentian of Cape May is 
G. Saponaria. 
The Mickleton record by B. Heritage, dating from Britton’s 
Catalogue, was considered by Dr. Stone to have been verified in the 
Heritage Herbarium. In late autumn of 1917, a Bottle Gentian was 
distinguished from the train in a small pasture-meadow not far 
