PUANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 151 



Fl. — Mid-May to late May. Cones mature in early autumn 

 of the first season and persist, in part at least, until the following 

 spring. 



Middle District. — Crosswicks Creek above New Egypt (NB), Bordentown, 

 Burlington (C), Vincentown (NB), Swedesboro (KB), Sharpstown, Little 

 Timber Creek near Gloucester (P). 



TAXODIUM L. C. Rich. 



Taxodium distichum (L.) Bald Cypress. 



Cupressus disticha Linnaaus, Sp. PI. 1003. 1753 [Virginia and Carolina]. — 

 Beck, Bot. 338, 1833. — Gray, Manual Ed. i, 443, 1848. — Hollick, Rep, on 

 Forests, 181, 1900. 



Upon what evidence the Cypress was credited to New Jersey 

 by Beck and Gray I am imable to say, but more recent works 

 have pretty generally excluded our State from its range, or 

 added it with doubt. Search for it in the swamps of South 

 Jersey failed until Mr. H. Walker Hand pointed out a single tree 

 on the edge of Sluice Creek, not far from Dennisville, and in- 

 formed me of another that formerly grew further down the 

 stream toward the bay. The suggestion has been made that these 

 trees were brought from farther south and planted here, but we 

 can find no positive evidence of this, while very old residents 

 remember them as being large trees in their youth. The locality 

 is peculiarly suitable for Cypress, and, judging by the number 

 of southern plants that have been discovered on the bay side of 

 Cape May County, the occurrence of the Cypress is by no means 

 remarkable. Dr. Arthur Hollick mentions several trees on the 

 salt marsh near Newark, north of our limits, which were also 

 alleged to have been introduced, but proof of the fact was not 

 obtainable, while conditions were just such as prevail in the 

 natural habitat of the species. This is the only other occurrence 

 of the tree in an apparently natural condition in the State. 



Cones. — Immature August 6. 



Cape May. — S. Dennis. 



CHAM/ECYPARIS Spach. 



Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.). White Cedar. 



Cupressus thyoides Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1003. 1753 [Canada]. — Muhlenberg Cat. 

 89. — Knieskern 29. — Willis 58. — Britton 299. 



