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Note on the Flora of the Kittatinny Mountains.” 
In November, 1884, I communicated to the Torrey Club an 
account of some peculiarities of the Flora of the Kittatinny 
Mountains of Northwestern New Jersey.t I then called attention 
to the existence on these mountains of a number of plants whose 
“ordinary habitat is in sandy soil near the Atlantic coast, and 
whose occurrence in the region under consideration was appar- 
ently attributable to. the highly silicious character of the soil, 
which results from the decay of the sandstone and silicious con- 
glomerate rock of Oneida age—the Shawangunk Grit—of which 
these mountains are composed. Among the species then noted 
were Juncus Greenit, Oakes and Tuckerm., Solidago puberula, 
Nutt., Orontium aquaticum, L., Tephrosia Virginiana, Pers., Les- 
pedeza hirta, Ell., Lupinus perennis, L., Quercus ilicifolia, 
Wang., and the Corema Conradit, Torrey, of Lake Mohunk, the 
latter a few miles north of the New Jersey line in New York, but 
on the same mountain range. Since that time I have been able 
to make further exploration of the region and can furnish addi- 
tional support to the position then taken. 
At Culver’s Gap, the first break in the range to the south- 
west of the depression through which the Erie railway is con- 
structed, the conglomerate is well exposed,: and here Polygala 
polygama, Walt., Gerardia pedicularia, L., and Lechea racemulosa, 
Michx., all abundant in sandy soil along the coast, occur plenti- 
fully. Here also grew Prunus pumila, L., before noted at 
High Point, and more commonly found on sandy river shores, 
though not a coast plant. On the mountains northwest of the 
Delaware Water Gap, I found, on July 4 of the present year, 
Scleria pauciflora, Muhl. 
But the most interesting spot yet visited is a lake of some 200 
acres in extent, called Sunfish Pond, four miles northwest of the 
Water Gap, near the very summit of the mountain. In shallow 
water along its shore, Juncus militaris, Bigel., was found. This 
species has never before been found so far away from the coast. 
The capillary sub-aqueous leaves had, at the time of collection 
* Read before the Biological Section, A. A. A. S., New York Meeting, August, 
1887. 
t Published in the BULLETIN of that month, vol. xi., pp- 126-128. 
