PLANTS OF SOUTHERN, NEW JERSEY. 561 



This low, white, woolly shrub, seldom over six inches in height, 

 forms patches of considerable extent over the wind-swept sand 

 dunes of the coast, which it so closely resembles in color as to 

 be inconspicuous, except in late spring, when its branches are 

 covered with the little starry yellow blossoms. Like a few other 

 maritime species, notably Lechea maritima, it strays inland here 

 and there in the white sand of the Pine Barrens, where it seems 

 to find conditions quite as favorable to its growth.* 



Fl. — Late May to early June. Fr. — ^Late June into July. 



Pine Barrens. — Hornerstown, Toms River (S), Head of Batsto (S), Speed- 

 well, Quaker Bridge (P). 



Maritime. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Asbury Park, Pt. Pleasant, 

 Forked River, Seaside Park, Barnegat, Beach Haven Terrace (L), Barnegat 

 City (L), Beach Haven (L), Atlantic City, Longport (S), Ocean City (S), 

 Five-Mile Beach, Cape May (S), Cape May Pt. (S). 



Hudsonia ericoides L. Heath-like Hudsonia, Pine Barren Heather. 



Hudsdtnia ericoides Linnaeus, Mantissa L 74. 1767 [Virginia] — Pursh, 1^1. 

 Am. Sept. n. 364. 1814. — Nuttall, Gen. H. 4. 1818. — Knieskern 7. — 

 Willis 10. — Britton 54. — Keller and Brovi^n 226. 



Common in white sand in the Pine Barrens, also reported from 

 Middlesex County. 



This is the "Heather" of the Pine Barrens ; the characteristic 

 species in the patches of open white sand. It resembles the pre- 

 ceding in manner of growth, but is greenish instead of grayish- 

 white, lacking the dense tomentum; and its foliage is somewhat 

 bristly, as contrasted with the softness of the other species. On 

 the "plains," where it reaches its miaximum development, I have 

 seen it only in late June, when the season of flowering was past, 

 but a little earlier, judging from the abundance of seed pods, the 

 whole surface of this desolate region rriust have been a carpet of 

 golden bloom. 



Fl. — ^Late May to early June. Fr. — Late June into July. 



Pine Barrens. — Allaire, Pt. Pleasant, Toms River, Forked River, Island 

 Hts., Bamber, Barnegat, New Lisbon (C), Browns Mills, South of New 

 Egypt, E. Plains (S), Clementon, Albion, Sumner, Head of Batsto (S), 

 lona (S), Iskip, Williamstown Jnc, Folsom, Willow Grove (NB), Mouth of 



* Cf. Bartlett, Rhodora, Dec. 1909, 221. In re maritime plants away from 

 the coast. 



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