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patches, and it would seem as if the seeds, carried by the winds, 

 had availed themselves of every spot of bare sand, there to 

 lodge and germinate. None of these seedlings were miore tlian 

 two years old, many not more than one. 



"In illustration of the apparently capricious manner in which 

 this plant appears, I may mention that on our return to Barne- 

 gat we saw two or three patches of it on the south side of the 

 road, about three niiiles west oi Barnegat, within half a yard 

 of the wheel track. Search for more of it in this vicinity was 

 unsuccessful, so also was a re-examination of the original 

 locality near the old western hotel at Cedar Bridge." 



As I had become connected with the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences but a short time before Mr. Redfield's account was 

 published, I heard a good deal of the re-discovery of Corcma, 

 and was anxious to see it for myself. Consequently, on March 

 31, 1893, in company with Messrs. Stewardson Brown. Amos 

 P. Brown and Joseph Crawford, I visited this locality. We 

 were, I think, the first to approach it from the west, leaving 

 Woodmansie station on the New Jersey Southern Railroad and 

 walking se^'en miles through the loose sand and back again in 

 time for the afternoon train. 



The plant was at this time in full bloom;, and its weird sur- 

 roundings and the forced mlarch of fourteen miles made a 

 lasting impression on my mind. 



On July 3, 1899, Mess. C. F. Saunders and W. N. Clute, on 

 a wagon trip across the lower or East Plains, found the Core ma 

 west of Munyon Field in exactly similar environment to that 

 prevailing on the West Plains; and also sparingly west of the 

 east branch of the \\'ading R-iver, in pine woods at least four 

 miles from the Plains. These localities are some eleven miles 

 south of the Cedar Bridge station.* 



In June, 1901, accompanied by Messrs. H. L. Coggins and 

 J. A. G. Rehn, I crossed by wagon from Med ford nearly to 

 Munyon Field and found the plant abundant at Mr. Saunders' 

 locality. 



The next year, on a tramp across this section fromi Cedar 

 Grove to Chatsworth. Mr. J. A. G. Rehn and I found it just 



* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., igoo, p. 544. 



