PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 149 



clear and refreshing- as compared with the humidity of the Dela- 

 ware River country. 



At all seasons there is a peculiar restfulness in these quiet 

 stretches, over which the pines stand as silent sentinels. 



And as day closes, and we pitch our camp among them, we 

 see the light fading from their topmost branches, and the shadows 

 deepening beneath them, while the dark limbs seem to stretch 

 out and take the whole earth in their sheltering embrace. 



Portions of the pine lands have been cut over again and again 

 for charcoal, while fire rages through them year after year, and 

 probably little absolutely virgin timber remains, but they seem 

 to hold their own, and it is a frequent sight to see young pines 

 coming up all over some deserted clearing. In some places, 

 where the soil is perhaps richer, nearly solid oak woods have 

 grown up where the pines have been cut, making a dense, almost 

 impenetrable thicket, but it is a question v;hether even here the 

 pines doi not eventually prevail again. The opinions of natives 

 on these points are often curiously at variance, and there is not 

 as much reliable data on the subject as might be desired. The 

 State reports, however, contain a great deal of information, 

 especially the Forestry Reports appended to the Annual Report 

 of the State Geologist for 1898 and 1899. 



Fl. — Early May to late May. Cones mature in autumn of the 

 second season and persist for quite a number of years. 



Middle District.— A\.\a.n\.\c Heights (UP), Farmingdale (S), New Egypt, 

 Arneys Mt. (S), Medford (S), Glassboro, Swedesboro. 



Pine Barrens. — Landisville, West of Batsto, Cedar Bridge (UP), Egg Har- 

 bor City (UP). 



Coast Strip. — Seaside Park (Ha), Sherburn's (L), Tuckerton, Barnegat 

 City (L), Atlantic City (S), Piermont (S). 



Cape May.— Cape May Pt. 



Pinus serotina Michx. Pond Pine. 



PI. HI, Fig. 4. PI. IV., Fig. 2. 



Finns serotina Michaux, F. Bor. Am. H. 205. 1803 [Cypress swamps of 

 Carolina and Pennsylvania]. — Long, Bartonia 11., 17, 1910. 



This southern species was first detected in New Jersey by 

 Mr. Charles D. Lippincott, who many years ago recognized 

 several trees growing near his home at Swedesboro as differing 



