366 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUlSEUM. 



Swamps especially in woodland ; frequent throughout the 

 State. 



Fl. — Late July to mid-August. 



Middle District.— Ft. Pleasant. New Egypt, Camden, Mt. Ephraim (P), 

 Medford (S), Lindenwold, Swedesboro. 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River (NJ), Forked River, Manchester (NB), Bam- 

 ber, Waretown, Barnegat, Coxes, Berlin, Clementon, Eighth St. (T), Quaker 

 Bridge, Batsto, Forks of Batsto, Palermo, Sea Isle Jnc. (S). 



Cape May. — Goshen, Green Creek (S), Dias Creek (S), Cold Spring, 

 Whitesboro (S). 



Gymnadeniopsis nivea (Nutt.). Snowy Orchis. 



PI. XLVII. 



Orchis nivca Nnttall, Gen. II : i88, 1818 [Betwixt St. Mary's and Satilla 



River, W. Florida]. 

 Gymnandeniopsis nivea Long, Torreya 1908, 16. Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. 



Phila., 1908, 458. 



Open bogs in southern Cape (May County; locally common. 



One of the greatest surprises of recent botanical investigations 

 in southern New Jersey v/as the discovery of this plant by Mr. 

 Bayard Long on July 24, 1907. 



It was hard to imagine that in a region so frequently scoured 

 by botanists an undetected and conspicuous orchid had been 

 blooming all these years, and yet such was the case. The ex- 

 plantation probably lies in the fact that the bogs in which the 

 plant grow^s are off the usual line of travel and directly away 

 from the sea and the salt marshes, which seem' always to have 

 attracted the botanists who visited the region. Then, again, 

 the late blooming of this species was doubtless also a factor in 

 concealing its presence, as the usual conspicuous bog flowers 

 are, for the most part, over before it starts to blossom. 



The systematic efforts of the miembers of the Philadelphia 

 Botanical Club to explore all the bogs of this region that were 

 marked on the maps were responsible for discovering the locality, 

 and to Mr. Long is due the credit for recognizing the plant 

 from the leaves and old withered flower stalk. A later visit 

 by Mr. Van Pelt and the writer revealed the plant just beginning 

 to bloom, while on September 4. 1907, it was at its height and 

 was found to be far more plentiful than at first supposed, its 

 white spikes rising above the grass all over the bogs. 



