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Coast Strip. — Mays Landing (S).* 



Cape May.— Cape May Pt., on Lily Lake (OHB). 



ALNUS Gaertner. 



AInus rugosa (DuRoi). Alder. 



Betiila Alnus rugosa DuRoi, Harbk. Wild. Baiimzt. L 112. 1771 [North 



America]. 

 Alnus serriilata Knieskern 29. — Britton 221. 



Low gTOunds, forming swamp thickets ; common in the 

 Northern and Middle districts and in the cedar swamps of the 

 Pine Barrens, rare on the Coast and apparently not common on 

 the Cape May peninsula (?) 



The swelling of the staminate catkins of the Alder is the first 

 sign of awakening spring in the swamps of south Jersey, but they 

 often attain their full length and flexibility some time before the 

 pollen is actually liberated, and they may be said to be in bloom. 



Fl. — Mid-March to early April, before the leaves expand ; from 

 catkins formed the previous summer. Fr. — September. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale (S), Pt. Pleasant (S), Birmingham, Pem- 

 berton Jnc, Bordentown, Kinkora, Masonville, Camden, Lawnside (S), Med- 

 ford (S), Washington Park, Swedesboro. 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River (NY), Manahawkin, Barnegat, Speedwell, Bear 

 Swamp, Atco, Albion, Penbryn (S), Pancoast, Folsom, West Creek. 



Coast Strip.- — Surf City (L). 



Family FAGACE/E. Beeches. Chestnuts and Oaks. 



a. Nuts two, sharply triangular, enclosed in a thin four-valved bur, tomen- 

 tous outside and with soft prickles. Bark very smooth, light gray. 



Fagus, p. 402 

 aa. Nuts plano-convex, in a large spiny bur. 



b. Nuts 1-5, leaves glabrous ; a large tree. Castanea dentafa, p. 403 



bb. Nut I, leaves tomentous below, a shrub. C. pumila, p. 403 



aaa. Nut, single, an acorn with scaly basal cup. Quercus, p. 404 



FAGUS L. 



Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart. Beech. 



Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart., Beitr. Nat. Wiss., vol. IIL, p. 22. 1788 [North 



America] . 

 Fagus ferruginca Knieskern 28. — Willis 56. — Britton 225. 



* This tree as well as Pinus virginiana and some other species occurs along 

 the river below the dam at Mays Landing, along with species character- 

 istic of the Coast Strip. These, however, have not been found on the coast 

 and are completely cut off by the Pine Barrens from their relatives in the 

 Middle district. 



