PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 147 



Pinus virginiana Mill. Jersey Pine. 



PI. III., Fig. 3. PL IV., Fig. 6. 



Pinus virginiana Miller, Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. No. 9. 1768 [Virginia]. — Britton 



300. 

 Pinus inops Pursh 641. — Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 11. 204. — Knieskern 29. — 



Willis 57 — Gray Manual, Ed. I. 439. 



This is the characteristic pine of the Middle district, especially 

 in West Jersey, where it often forms dense patches of woodland.* 

 It enters the Pine Barrens below Mays Landing and at Ham- 

 monton, apparently following the Batsto River and Egg Harbor 

 River from the coast, where it is now very rare or absent. 

 Mr. William T. Davis has also sent me a specimen from S. 

 Lakehurst, but states that this locality is not typical Pine Barrens. 

 To the northward it occurs at several stations just beyond our 

 limits. As both P. echinata and P. rigida occur occasionally in 

 the Middle district, it is possible to find all three growing side by 

 side, as I have done at Medford, when their differences are 

 rendered particularly striking. 



Fl. — Late April to midrMay. Cones mature in autumn of the 

 second season, and persist for several years. 



Middle District. — Kinkora, Beverly, Areola, Arney's Mt. (S), Pemberton 

 (C), Springdale (S), Washington Park, Westville (UP), Mickleton, Swedes- 

 boro, Albion, Bridgeton. 



Pine Barrens. — Hammonton (Bassett), Mays Landing (S), S. Lakehurst 

 (P), (from Wm. T. Davis). 



Cape May. — Cold Spring (S). 



Pinus echinata Mill. Short-leaved Pine, Yellow Pine. 



PI. Ill, Figs. I and 2. PI. IV, Figs. 7 and 8. 

 Pinus echinata Miller, Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. No. 12. 1768. [Virginia]. — Britton 



301. 

 Pinus mitis Knieskern 29. — Willis 57. — Gray Man. Ed. I. 440. 



This species, while perhaps more plentiful in the Pine Barrens, 

 occurs frequently in the Middle district as well as at South Am- 

 boy and in the Cape May peninsula. In some places, as at 

 Brown's Mills, West Creek, Chatsworth, etc., it forms consider- 

 able sfroves. 



*In the "Tree Book" Miss Julia E. Rogers states that this is the pine of 

 the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Where she received this quite erroneous im- 

 pression, unless from the popular name of the species, I cannot imagine. 



