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aurantiacis areolata; perich. similia; omnia nervo crasso callosso 
in acumine evanido; theca breviter exserta e basi brevi urniformi- 
oblonga octies plicata fusca tenuis, operculo e basi cupulata recte 
aciculari; calyptra pilis elongatis strictis reticulatis apice simplicibus 
subulatis glabris hirtissima; peristomii externi dentes ad cap ulam 
reflexi albidi 16 per paria aggregati lanceolati breviter subulati 
linea longitudinali tenui exarati obscuri, interni 8 robusti latiusculi 
linea longitudinali exarati latere sinuoso-crenati obscuri crassi. 
Patria, Oregon, Winchester Bay, et Coos River, ad arbores in 
societate Neckera Douglasiz, Hook., October, 1881, c. fruct. eva- 
cuatis: C. G. Pringle, in herb. E. A. Rau. 
Ex habitu ad congeneres Orthothere, Syrrhopodontium c. gr. 
ad O. lycopodioidem accedens. Species distinctissima pulcher- 
rima excelsa. 
Pinus pungens in New Jersey. 
On the 15th of May, Rev. R. E. Schuh and myself found Pinus 
pungens, Michx., one mile east of Sergeantsville, Delaware Town- 
ship, Hunterdon County. About one acre is densely covered with 
it, and an equal area with scattering trees. The location is a warm, 
sunny one, on a south slope, protected from the north and west 
winds by surrounding woods. 
On inquiry I learn that nearly a half century since the site 
now occupied by it was a cultivated field, in the middle of which 
a small pine was for some reason allowed to grow. Subsequently, 
however, the ground being no longer tilled, there grew up a dense. 
undergrowth, among which was a large number of small pines. 
These grew so luxuriantly as to choke out the other vegetation. 
The parent tree still stands larger than any of its offspring, meas- 
uring 30 inches in diameter near the ground, and attaining a height 
of 40 feet. 
Whence came this tree? It cannot be traced to cultivation. 
In fact I am told that repeated trials have been made to transplant 
the younger trees for ornamental purposes, but with uniformly 
poor results. The other species of Pivus growing in this section 
are Pinus rigida, Muller, P. inops., Art., P. Strobus, L. 1 think | a 
it probable that the seed has been carried here, on snow crusts, © 
perhaps, by the wind and, finding a favorable nidus, has sprung up. 
