CIK 



Journal of Pharmacology, 



Devoted to the Advances Made in Materia Medica in its Branches. 



Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, Chemistry, Botany, Pharmaco- 



Dynamics, Therapeutics and Toxicology. 



Published by the Alumni Association of the Collepe of Pharmacy of the City of New York. 



Voi,. V. 



NEW YORK, JUNE, ii 



No. 6. 



MEDICINAL PLANTS OF NEW JERSEY. 



By H. H. Rusby, M. D. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



botanical 

 garden. 



This paper represents an attempt to enumerate with approximate com- 

 pleteness the more important medicinal plants of New Jersey, giving their 

 distribution in the State, noting especially those which occur in the vi- 

 cinity of the place where this meeting is being held, and offering sugges- 

 tions of interest concerning a number of them. These suggestions relate 

 more especially to certain deficiencies in our knowledge, and indicate di- 

 rections in which members of the Association may be able to obtain the 

 desired information. 



The facts presented are the results of very extensive personal field 

 work in the State), and are supplemented chiefly by the records accumu- 

 lated by Dr. Britton, and published in his "Catalogue of the Plants of 

 New Jersey," forming a part of the Report of the State Geologist, Vol. II., 

 1889. 



Many comments have been published upon the great extent and di- 

 versity of the New Jersey flora, considering the small area represented, a 

 result of its extension in a north and south direction, of its extensive lit- 

 toral and of an unusual diversity in soil. We have nearly 2,000 species of 

 flowering plants growing wild within the State. 



Of the 200, or thereabout, plants which are made official by the U. S. P., 

 and which represent the universal flora, no less than 83, or about 40 per 

 cent., occur growing without cultivation in New Jersey, and of these, 61 

 are found within a radius of 10 or 15 miles of Summit. Besides these 

 official plants, the State produces from 125 to 150 others of some com- 



• Read before the New Jersey State Pharmaceutical Association, Summit Meeting, May i8th,i898. 



