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valis. Holly Ilex opaca. Staff Vine Cclastrus scandeiis. Sassafras 

 S. sassafras, and Persimmon Diospyriis virginiana. To the north 

 the island beaches support no trees except a few Red Cedars, 

 though the spit reaching* from Bay Head southward contains 

 Q wrens phellos. Ilex opaca, Qiiercus ilicifolia, Finns rigida. 

 To the south there was until two years ago, quite a wooded 

 thicket at the upper end of Ocean City, comprising the same 

 species as those found near Ventnor, except the Pine. 



Sea Isle Beach supported only a few Cedars, as did Two-Mile 

 Beach, just above Cape May, but the two intervening islands, 

 Seven and Five-Mile Beaches, were thickly wooded. Pines were 

 very rare, two small ones only, on Seven-Mile and no record for 

 Five-Mile. The abundant species were the same as those found 

 back of Ventnor on the Atlantic City Island, with the addition 

 of Willow Oak Quercus phellos, Red Mulberry Morus rubra, 

 Hackl)err3'- Celtis occidentalis and Magnolia virginiana on Seven- 

 Mile Beach, and most of them on Five-Mile Beach as well. 



On Seven-Mile Beach immense sand dunes (see pi. CXXIX), 

 towering higher than the forest, shut it off from the sea, but my 

 last visit there found a gang of men cutting down the forest, 

 while steam shovels were leveling the dunes, and dirt cars carried 

 off the sand to be used in the manufacture of concrete houses. 

 Five-Mile Beach has suffered similar "improvement." 



Fortunately good series of the flora of these two islands, now 

 all but extinct, are preserved in the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 and University of Pennsylvania, while Dr. Thos. S. Githens, 

 Prof. Chas. H. LaWall* and the writer have made considerable 

 collections at Ventnor. An "Ecological Study of the New 

 Jersey Strand Flora," presented by Dr. J. W. Harshberger 

 in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy, igoo, p. 623, 

 contains a good account of the forest of Five-Mile Beach. 



A Hst of the plants peculiar to the coast strip follows. A few 

 of them occur occasionally in the Middle district, but they are far 

 more abundant on the coast. These are additional to those 

 starred in the preceding list on p. 89, and a number of them are of 

 austral affinities. 



* Cf. Bartonia, 1910, pp. 12-21. 



