356 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Helonias tomentosa Muhlenberg Cat. 37. 

 Lophiola aurea Knieskern 31. — Willis 63. 

 Lophiola tomentosa Britton 237. 

 Lophiola americana Keller and Brown 105. 



Freqtient in Pine Barren swamps and bogs. 



This is a striking plant found only in the heart of the Pine 

 Barrens. The dense, wooly coA'ering of the floAvers recalls the 

 Bidehveiss of the Swiss mountains, and from the downy, white 

 clusters the little yellow flowers peep out like tiny stars. The 

 plant has a close general resemblance to Gyrotheca, but its wooly 

 coat is denser and miuch purer white. This was one of the plants 

 first discovered by Frederick Pursh in his tramps across the 

 wilds of New Jersey and was published by Kerr in Curtis' Botan- 

 ical Magazine, fromj Pursh's original specimens shortly before 

 the appearance of his Flora. 



The untouched bogs of the Wading- River are the headquarters 

 for Lophiola. One well-known spot I always associate with it. 

 A low, scattered growth of Pitch Pines slopes down on either 

 side tO' the moist savanna, through which flows the rapid, tea- 

 colored stream. On the edge of the moist ground is a dense, 

 low, shrubby growth of White Azalea, three or four species 

 of Huckleberries and the Inkberry — Ilex glabra. White Cedars 

 mark the course of the stream, now forming dense clusters, 

 now scattering, with young ones standing out here and there 

 in the grassy, open stretches, and with the Cedars along the 

 bank are Red Maples, Wax Myrtles and beds of Royal Fern, 

 Carex livida and Bleocharis Uiberculosa. 



The "Savannas" are covered with the tall stalks of Danthonia 

 epUis, while the denser growth below contains Panium cnsifoliuui, 

 RynchosporcE of several species, Scleria minor, etc.. all rising 

 from a bed of sphagnum or from' patches of wet. white sand 

 and scattered all about in definite clumps are the Pitcher plants, 

 with pitchers of all shades and comlbinations of green and 

 crimson, and the button-topped stalks of the Pipeworts Briocau- 

 lon compressum and decangulare — the former at this date, July 

 4. scattering its chaff at the slightest touch, the latter only in 



* Record for Browns Mills (KB) proves to be Gyrotheca. 



