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house in 1869 it was as rough a hostelry as it has been my lot to 
encounter. I have some doubt whether Conrad's and Rafinesque's 
localities were not the same. 
Dr. Knieskern is said to have found the plant at other points in 
Monmouth Co., but this has not been confirmed, nor is the Corema 
enumerated in his Catalogue of the plants of Monmouth and Ocean 
Counties published in 1856. There is, however, a large tract of 
absolute wilderness lying between the New Jersey Southern R. R. 
and Barnegat Bay which may reward exploration. 
2, Long Island. — Dr. Torrey, in the Flora of New York ii., 519, 
says that Dr. Emmons had given him specimens of Corema collected, 
as nearly as he could remember, " on the road from Oyster Bay to 
Hempstead, but possibly near Islip." It does not seem to have 
since been found, and Mr. Coles, of Glen Cove, '' has sought it very 
generally in Queens and Suffolk Counties in the most likely places 
without even finding a single specimen/' (Bulletin of Torrey Club 
ill., 5) and Mr. E. S. Miller in his careful Catalogue of the Plants 
of Suffolk Co., does not enumerate it. 
3. Plymouth, Mass. — This is the best known and most abundant 
locality, and has furnished most of the specimens hitherto found in 
our herbaria, and was mode known in 1838 and 1839 by Tucker- 
man, Oakes and others. Mr. Tuckerman recognized the Plymouth 
plant as identical with that from Cedar Bridge described by Dr. 
Torrey, and communicated specimens with ripe fruit to Dr. Klotzsch of 
Berlin, who in 1841 proposed to separate it from Empetrum under 
the name of Tuckermannia."^ This name had, however, been already 
applied by Nuttall to a California Composite, and so Tuckerman, in 
London Journal of Botany i., 445, in the year 1842, proposed for it 
the name of Oakesia in compliment to William Oakes. Dr. Gray, 
however, in the paper referred to at the head of this article, showed 
that there was nothing in the generic character to separate it from 
the existing genus Corema established by Dr. Don in 1826 upon 
Empetrum alburn^ L. 
In visiting this locality, August 7th, 1885, I had the company of 
Dr. Gray and the guidance of Benj. M. Watson, Jr., Professor of 
Horticulture in the Bussey Institute. I found it presenting an 
aspect very different from those yet to be mentioned. Here I saw 
the plant, as Emersonf well describes it, "clothing one open, sunny 
hill of some acres, strongly reminding one of the description of the 
heaths of Europe." This hill, like most of those in the vicinity, is 
a deep deposit of gravel largely composed of quartz. Where the 
rains have washed out the loamy vegetable matter the residuum is a 
coarse sand much like that of the Jersey barrens. I am sure that 
there is more of the plant here than in all the localities I have yet 
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* Erichson Archiv., 1841. p. 248. 
f Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. 1st edition, 1846, p. 328. 
