HARPER: VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 425 
only time, and Pinus Taeda, Salix nigra, Liriodendron, Fagus, 
and Platanus for the last time; but perhaps no special significance 
is to be attached to any of these facts. Practically all the species 
in the list are common both in the coastal plain and in the Pied- 
mont region, as might have been expected, and trees are much 
more numerous than conspicuous herbs, for the same reason as 
before. 
Skipping Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, for the 
reasons already given, we now come to New Jersey. From Camden 
to South Pemberton, a distance of 25 miles, I was in the Cretaceous 
region, which differs in no essential particular from the corre- 
sponding portions of Delaware, which I had traversed in the same 
manner and for approximately the same distance the year before.* 
Parts of it lying north and south of my route were described 
several years ago in the United States soil surveys of the Trenton 
and Salem areas, New Jersey. This region is so thickly settled 
that it is difficult to form an adequate idea of its original vegetation. 
The following pitiful remnants (and introduced weeds) were 
noticed. 
TREES 
3 Acer rubrum 2 Liquidambar Styraciflua 
3 Castanea dentata 2 Quercus alba 
3 (Robinia Pseudo-A cacia) 2 Pinus virginiana 
SHRUBS 
3 Alnus rugosa 
HERBS 
5 (Daucus Carota) 2 (Trifolium arvense) 
2 Pteris aquilina 2 (Achillea Millefolium) 
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2 Nymphaea advena 
Castanea dentata appears in this list only, and it happens that 
on my way southward the year before I saw it only in approxi- 
mately the same kind of country in Delaware. 
I traversed the celebrated pine-barrens of New Jersey for a. 
distance of 31 miles, from South Pemberton to Barnegat Pier, 
where the salt-water vegetation begins. The papers bearing on 
this region are too numerous (and mostly too short) to be men- 
*See Torreya 9: 219-221. 1909. 
