PLANTS O'F SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 127 



Schizaea is now known from some thirty stations, all within 

 the Pine Barrens, and it will doubtless be found in almost any 

 spot within this region where the conditions are favorable. A 

 moist, sandy spot on the edge of a White Cedar swamp is its 

 favorite habitat, where it grows in close association with young 

 Cedars, Lycopodium carolinianum, Drosera Uliformis, etc. Mr. 

 Clutes' statement in his List of N. A. Ferns — Fern. Bull. 1905, 

 p. 120 — that it is "found in Cranberry Bogs" is decidedly mis- 

 leading. It may sometimes grow where cranberries grow, but 

 not in what are known as Cra.nberry bogs, and I am' inclined to 

 think that the artificial cultivation, flooding, etc., would extermi- 

 nate it, as it does some of our other rarities. 



At Speedwell I have found it in the heart of a Cedar Swamp 

 growing on the vertical sides of cuts in the sandy roads made 

 by heavy wagons. 



Perhaps the most interesting station is that discovered by Mr. 

 E. B. Bartram, near Seaside Park, on a narrow point of land 

 lying between Barnegat Bay and the ocean. Here, just back of 

 the sand dunes, within one hundred yards of the beach, is a moist 

 hollow with a few little White Cedars, among which grows the 

 Schizcea in company with its usual associates, the Lycopodium 

 and Drosera. 



The largest specimens that I have seen bore fruiting fronds 

 120-150 mm. in height. 



The plant is easily overlooked, though readily found when 

 one is familiar with the fern and its haunts. The late Dr. J. 

 Bernard Brinton, who was one of those who discovered it at 

 Egg Harbor City, told me of his amazement when, while sitting 

 upon the ground eating his lunch, the little plant seemed to rise 

 up under his eyes as they for a moment became focused upon 

 a certain spot to which something had accidentally attracted 

 his gaze. 



When the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science met at Philadelphia, in 1884, the botanists in attendance, 

 including a number of prominent British naturalists who had 

 come on from the meeting of the British Association in Canada, 

 were taken on a special excursion to pay their respects to Schiscsa 

 and the Pine Barrens, probably the most notable trip ever made 

 to this region. It has been described as follows : 



