24- THE PLANT WORLD. 



To enumerate all of the rare or beautiful species and to point out 

 their peculiarities, would require many pages, and must be reserved 

 for a full report at some future day. Apart from the hills north and 

 west of the town, the best collecting ground appears to be located on 

 the hills to the southwest, along the road leading to Glorietta. 



Altogether, the collection of 350 numbers is the best we have ever 

 made in America, for among them are some fifty species collected at 

 the same places where Fendler collected the types of his new species, 

 thus making ours authentic specimens of those types. 



Although some of the roads are rough and full of sand in places, 

 this, my first season's experience with a bicycle, proved it to be an in- 

 valuable assistant. With it I was enabled to carry a heavy portfolio, 

 make round trips of from thirty to fifty miles in a day, and yet get 

 back in time to put my plants to press the same day, all with less dis- 

 comfort and fatigue than if a distance of ten or fifteen miles had been 

 covered on foot. 



We found that New Mexico, though not such a prolific field as 

 many other parts of the country, yields a rich harvest of rare and in- 

 teresting plants, and we hope to again revisit the Territory in the 

 near future. 



University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



THE OLD FIELD PINE IN NEW JERSEY. 



By Arthur Hollick. 



UNTIL very recently the geographical range of the Old Field 

 Pine ( P. Tceda L.) was thought to be limited on the north and 

 east by Delaware Bay. In Garden and Forest for May 19, 

 1897, however, Mr. Gifford Pinchot noted the occurrence of 

 a single tree at Town Bank, Cape May county, N. J. This, so far as 

 I can ascertain, is the first record of the species in New Jersey. In 

 The Forester for June, 1897, its occurrence there, independent of cul- 

 tivation, was rather questioned by the editor, and it became a matter 

 of interest to determine if possible whether the species was native in 

 the locality and whether other specimens were to be found there. 



Shorlty afterwards I received a communication from Professor 

 John C. Smock, State Geologist, requesting ,me to go to Cape May 

 and investigate the matter, and I was referred to Mr. Nathan C. 

 Price of Cape May City, who was supposed to know the location of 

 the individual tree reported by Mr. Pinchot. I arrived there on Aug, 

 5th and found Mr. Price, but he knew nothing about Pinus Tceda as a 

 species or Mr. Pinchot's tree as an individual, and as I had not, at 

 that time, read the article in Garden and Forest describing the local- 



