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3. O. Texana (Scheele) 
Ornithogalum Texanum Scheele, Linnaea, 23: 146. 
Schoenolirion Texanum Gray, I. c. 
- Texas and Louisiana. 
Observations upon a Clearing in July. 
Byron D, HALstep. 
During the past winter a piece of woodland about four miles 
from New Brunswick, N. J., along the trolley line to South River 
has been chopped over, the wood removed and the brush left in 
large piles. No attempt has been made to clear the field of 
stumps or shrubs , and this piece offers a good opportunity for the 
study of the effect upon the smaller species of plants of the re- 
moval of the larger ones. The lot, of possibly five acres, some- 
what irregular in outline, is quite uneven, and being in some parts 
high and in others low, with a small stream running through it, a 
large variety of conditions obtain and a rich flora results. 
In general, it was an ordinary mid-Jersey forest of possibly the 
third cutting. Among the trees are oaks, chesnuts, and some 
pines in the higher ground, while near the bog, magnolias are 
Present and birches and alders. In the lower part the Rhus Ver- 
_ mx and a tangle of Smilax rotundifolia \ine the wet portion 
where Hadenaria lacera and Osmunda cinnamomea give place to 
the skunk cabbage. 
The clearing was first visited in May with a class of a dozen 
students in quest of specimens for their plant collections. Upon 
this trip nothing unusual was noted, only the flowering herbs en- 
gaged the attention, and these were found upon the cleared lot, al- 
though in less abundance than in the woods, presumably only 
because the felling of the trees, and other tramping incident to the | 
removal of the wood, had destroyed many of these tender oe 
plants. ; : 
A second visit was made upon July sth, at the time when in 
the low ground an occasional aici viscosa was white with its 
highly fragrant blooms. 
In the wooded portion the huckleberries of at least three 
Species and the squaw berry, Vaccinum stamineum, abounded, 
