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species of Bermudan plants with relation to the environmental fac- 

 tors of the sand dunes upon which the plants grew. In this paper 

 a short 'bibliography of the principal papers is given. 



Explanation of the Plates. 



In Plate II, Fig. i, is shown the frontal sea dune at Sea Side 

 Park covered with the marram grass Ammophila arenaria and a 

 large clump of Cakile edentula, while in Fig. 2 is represented the 

 crest of the frontal dune covered with marram grass, back of which 

 occur the waxberry Myrica carolinensis and the clumps of Hud- 

 sonia tomentosa. 



The photograph reproduced in Plate III, Fig. 3, represents the 

 thicket formation at South Sea Side Park composed of Ilex opaca, 

 Sassafras officinale, Rhus radicans and Solidago sent pendr ens. In 

 Fig. 4, Plate III, is represented a slough with floating rafts of Eleo- 

 charis pygmcca. The twenty enlarged figures with details of stomata, 

 shown in Plate IV, represent the structure of the leaves of the sand 

 strand plants of New Jersey, while the twelve figures and stomata 

 enlargements represent the leaf structure of typic salt marsh species 

 (Plate V). 



