CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 213 



LAURINE^E. 



SASSAFRAS, Nees. 



S. officinale, Nees. 



Woods and copses. Common throughout the State. 



LINDBRA, Thunb. 



Spice Bush. 

 L. Benzoin (L.), Meisn. 



Low woods. Common or frequent throughout the State, ex- 

 . cept in the pine barrens. Atlantic : Mays Landing Peters. 



THYMEL^EACE^E. 



DIRCA, L. 



Leatherwood. Moosewood. 

 D. palustris, L. 



In low woods. Bergen : Closter and Palisades Austin. 

 Morris : Along Black River Miss Emeline Apgar. Warren : 

 Sparingly on limestone bluffs below Phillipsburg Porter. 

 Mercer : On the Assanpink three miles from Trenton, station * 

 now destroyed C. C. Abbott. Salem : Near Salem B. 

 Heritage. 



LORANTHACE^E. 



PHORADENDRON, Nutt. 

 American Mistletoe. 



P, flavescens (Pursh), Nutt. 



Parasitic on the black gum tree, or occasionally on the red 

 maple. Mon mouth : Four miles north from Key port Lock- 

 wood. Ocean : Between Manchester and Lakewood Bower. 

 Mercer : Hightstown Willis. Burlington : Medford and New 

 Lisbon Britton. Atlantic: Hammonton Bassett ; Landis- 

 ville C. A. Gross ; Mays Landing, forming fruit by September 

 2d Peters. Camden : Atco and Kaighn's Swamp Martin- 

 dale. Gloucester: Woodbury and Mickleton Mrs. W. Mc- 

 George. Salem : Near Woodstown E. E. Hackett. Cumber- 

 land: NearVineland Martindale; Bridgeton Dr. J. B. Potter. 



