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during a search of some hours. Dt. Torrey described it as 

 growing in a few patches ''in the pure white sand of that region." 

 These places, as I now rememlber them, were quite bare of vege- 

 tation at that early spring season, but the prevaihng tree growth 

 of all that region is a very stunted form' of Finns rigida. At 

 the time of Rafinesque's and Torrey's visits, Cedar Bridge was an 

 inn for the accommodation of the limited summer travel of 

 that period by stage-coach between Philadelphia and Barnegat 

 Bay. Now, alas! an occasional clami-wagon is the only visitant, 

 and as I remember the house in 1869, it was as rough a hostelry 

 as it has been my lot to encounter. I have some doubt whether 

 Conrad's and Rafinesque's localities were not the same.* 



Dr. Knieskern is said to have found the plant at other points 

 in Monmouth County, but this has not been confirmed, nor is 

 the Corema enumerated in his Catalogue of the Plants of Mon- 

 mouth and Ocean Counties, published in 1856. There is, how- 

 ever, a large tract of absolute wilderness lying between the 

 New Jersey Southern Railroad and Barnegat Bay which may 

 reward exploration." 



The next reference tO' the species in New Jersey is not very- 

 satisfactory, being a brief note of Prof. O. Rl. Willis to Dr. 

 Britton.f It probably refers in part, at least, to Dr. Knieskern's 

 discovery of the plant, as he lived at Manchester. He writes : 

 "We found Corem'a west of Toms River and iwrth oi Man- 

 chester; also west of Squant, south of the river. It was not 

 rare in those neighborhoods. It is, though, at least thirty years 

 since I visited them, and the localities have perhaps been ex- 

 hausted." 



The only specimen which may be cited tO' substantiate these 

 records is one in the Philadelphia Academy, received from Dr. 

 Gray, labeled "Monmouth Co., N. J., Coll. HL Mann." I should 

 strongly suspect that Prof. Willis, after this lapse of time, might 



*In the Torrey Bulletin for October, 1884, p. 117, Dt. N. L. Britten states 

 that there seems to be no doubt that Mr. S. W. Conrad did collect the plant 

 at Pemberton's Mills about twelve miles from Burlington, N. J., for a speci- 

 men so ticketed is in the Torrey Herbarium. 



It seems to me that it could easily have been sent to Conrad by a resident 

 of Pemberton who actually collected it much farther east. 



t Torrey Bulletin XVI., 1889, p. 195. 



