53^ REPORT OF NEW JERSE^' S TATE MUSEUM. 



east t)f Cedar Grove, within sight of the houses; and on May 8, 

 i(;i I, I found an isolated colony in the pine woods at Eag-leswood, 

 on West Creek, three miles from the town of West Creek. 



From the variation, in abundance of the species at different 

 times, and its apparent disappearance fromi some stations, it 

 seems to me that it probably dies out or is exterminated by fire 

 in certain spots, while the seed blown freely over this ^vind- 

 swept waste is constraitly starting new colonies, so that its actual 

 stations are continually shifting-. 



Fl. — Late March to mid-April, stamens drying and persisting 

 throug-h the spring. Fr. — Late June to early Jul}', apparently. 

 Pine Barrens. — Pemberton Mills 12 miles from Burlington, Monmouth 

 Co., Cedar Bridge, 3 miles west of Cedar Bridge, 4 miles east of Woodmansie, 

 6 miles each of Woodmansie, 3 miles west of Barnegat, Between Allen's 

 Bridge (High Bridge) and Martha, East Plains near Munyon Field, Three 

 miles northwest of West Creek. 



Family ANACARDIACE^. Sumacs. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Leaves 9-31 fohate, fruit clothed with crimson hairs. 



b. Rachis of the leaf wing margined. Rlnis copaUina, p. 536 



bb. Rachis of the leaf nearly terete. 



c. Foliage and twigs velvety pubescent. R. Iiirta, p. 537 



cc. Foliage and twigs glabrous and glaucous. R. glabra, p. 537 



GO. Leaves not more than 13 foliate, fruit whitish or dun-colored. 



/'. Leaflets 7-13 glabrous. R. vernix, p. 537 



bb. Leaflets always 3. 



c. Vine climbing by aerial rootlets or trailing, leaves glabrate entire or 

 sparingly sinuate or toothed. R. radicans, p. 538 



cc. Low, erect shrub, mostly v^'ithout aerial rootlets, leaves very pubes- 

 cent and deeply lobed. R. toxicodendron, p. 538 



RHUS L. 



Rhus copallinum L.* Dwarf Sumac. 



Rhus Copallinum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 266. 1753 [N. America].— Pursh, Fl. Amer. 

 Sept. L 205. 1814. — Knieskern 11. — Britton 79. 



Frequent in sandy soil throughout the Northern, Middle and 

 Coast districts. Occasional in the Pine Barrens, where it is in- 

 troduced. 



PI — Late July to early September. Fr. — About late August 

 into October. 



* Linnseus seems to use this name in the genitive plural ; if so we have no 

 right to alter it to copallina. 



