193 



Corema in New Jersey. 



By John H, Redfie'ld. 



In an article upon the localities of Corema CoJiradii which 

 appeared in the BULLETIN for Sept., 1884, (Vol. xi. p. 97) I re- 

 ferred to a locality of this plant at Cedar Bridge, N. J., which was 

 known to Rafinesque, and which was visited by Dr. Torrey in 1833, 

 who described the plant and defined its Cedar Bridge station, in the 

 Annals of N. Y. Lyceum of Natural History, Vol. iv. p. ?>^, I 

 also gave some account of an unsuccessful search for the plant at 

 Cedar Bridge made by the late Chas. F- Parker and myself in 

 April, 1869. In a short account of that search given in Proc. 

 Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. for 1869, pp. 91, 92, I stated that if the 



plant 



a 



J 



be in the wide sandy waste a few miles west of Cedar Bridge, near 

 the boundary between Burlington and Ocean counties, where a 

 succession of elevated ancient ocean beaches offer conditions 

 similar to those of Cape Cod." But up to the date of my paper 

 of 1884, ^rid for several years thereafter, the Corema had seemed 



J 



on the 



Shawangunk Ridge in Ulster Co., N. Y. — made known by Aubrey 

 H. Smith in 1881 — was regarded as the most southern point which 



could be surely cited for the habitat of this plant. 



About three years ago Mr. F. J. H. Merrill of Columbia Col- 

 lege, in the course of an examination of the Yellow Drift of Ocean 

 Co, N. J., discovered the Corema in the very region which I had 

 indicated in my communication to the Philadelphia Academy in 

 1869, and reported the fact to Dr. Britton, who visited the locality 

 with Messrs. Thos. Hogg and J. I. Northrop in May, 1887. In 

 April of this present year Dr. Britton proposed that I should join 

 him in an expedition to the place. Accordingly on the 30th. 

 Dr. Britton, with Mr. Arthur Hollick, Dr. J. Bernard Brin- 

 ton and myself visited the location, which is about two and 

 one-half miles due west from Cedar Bridge, and about ten miles 

 west of the R. R. station at Barnegat. It Hes on both sides of the 

 county line dividing Ocean arid BurHngton counties. It is easiest 

 reached from Barnegat, by taking the straight road from that place 

 to Cedar Bridge (about eight miles) then taking the straight road 



