THE PLANT WORLD. 3 



and purple. Li July the fruit — a little dry ball ahout as big as a Hat 

 pin head — was fully mature and inclined to drop. 



Our road led often alon"- the edijes of eedar swaniijs, f rag-rant 

 with the delightful perfume of white azalias (.1. /v'.syy/.ny^j, and late lin. 

 ijering blooms of the sweet })ay {^2I(i(in(>l!<i <jl<nic(n, here so far re- 

 moved from civilized man as to be safe from his vandal hands. In 

 a savanna near the Otvvego Kiver, we discovered some specimens of a 

 liliaceous |)Iant bearing s[)ike-like racemes of small white flowers, with 

 extremely sticky stems and leaves, wliich proved to tje T<ip</<h(i pulx'/i-^. 

 Thouy-h the ranii^e of this i)lant is oiven in the books as from Florida 



GENERAL ASPECT OF SCRUB OAK PLAIN. 



to Southern New Jersey, Dr. Britton's catalogue of New Jersey plants 

 gives only one station for it in the latter state, namely, a bog near Man- 

 chester, and these "very rare~|and not recently collected." With the 

 ■Totieldia, we found ([uantities of the American bog-asphodel, {^Xarthe- 

 ciuiK Ainericanum)^ in the height of bloom — a trim, little plant with 

 sword-like leaves, and spikes of bright yellow flowers to give place in 

 the autumn to vermilion capsules of fruit. It is a plant peculiar to 

 the damp pine barrens of South Jersey, having been reported from no 

 where else in the whole world. 



The bogs were si)angled with the yellow helmets of the bladder- 

 wort flowers ( Utru'^'lnrid, clandestiiia), the magenta blooms of the 

 thread leaved sundew, the white stars of Drosera intermedia and the 

 gaping rose-pink blossoms of the snake-mouth pogonia [P. oj^hioglos- 

 soides). Ever and anon, the brilliant orange heads of the wild bach- 



