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I't- — Early May U> lak- May. Cones mature in late suninier of 

 the second season and persist for several years. 



Middle District.— V&rmmgda\Q, Allaire, New Egypt (C), Arney's Mt. (S), 

 Brown's Mills, Mcdford (S), Undcnwold, Mickleton (KB), Clcmenton (S), 

 Albion, Swedesboro, Centerton (S), Bridgeton (NB), Fairton (NB), Biick- 

 shuteni. 



Pine i3<jrrr»j-.— Forked River, Barnegat, Manahawkin, Inskip. Winslow 

 Jnc., Hammonton (C), Quaker Bridge (S), Pleasant Mills, Mays Landing 

 (S). 



Cape May.—\N. of Court House. 



Pinus rigida Mill. Pitch Pine. 



PI. II., Figs. I and 2 . PI. IV., Figs. 3 and 4. 



Pinus ri<^ida Miller. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, No. 10. 1768 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 

 29. — Britton 300. 



Tliis is the common pine of the Pine Barrens. It occurs here 

 and there in the North and Middle districts and there is a con- 

 siderable grove on Absecon Beach, below Atlantic City. On the 

 other island beaches, however, it is absent or very rare. 



The Pitch Pine is the Pine of the New Jersey Barrens, and 

 is largely restricted to them. Where a slight elevation of the 

 sandy plain makes it possible for one tO' look out over the sur- 

 rounding country, the pines extend in an unbroken sea of green 

 clear to the horizon, and where it is only possible tO' see straight 

 ahead they line the white, sa.ndy trail with a green barrier on 

 either side, stretching away until they seemi to join together 

 and swallow it up. In some places the pines reach a height of 

 sixty feet and grow comparatively close together with bare 

 trunks ; again they are shorter, and scattered here and there over 

 the white, shining sand, with branches all the way to the base; 

 and on the so-called plains they are dwarfed and stunted with 

 round boles half buried in the coarse sand and gravel, and 

 prostrate branches seldom- rising higher than a man's knee. 



The pines lend a chami to this desolate countiw. In winter, 

 when the wind is sighing through their branches and patches 

 of snow here and there add to the whiteness of the sand, their 

 evergreen foliage seems to warm the landscape, and their thick 

 wall of branches offer shelter from the stomi; and in summer 

 the air of the pine land, rich with its resinous odor, seems dry, 



