Schizaea Pusilla at Toms River 
PAULINE KAUFMAN 
Among the pleasant days given over to the celebra- 
tion of the twentieth anniversary of the New York 
Botanical Garden, September twentieth, nineteen hun- 
dred and fifteen, will long be remembered. At about 
ten o’clock, members and guests of the Torrey Club, 
numbering fifty-two, left the New Jersey Central sta- 
tion in a special car, for the Pine Barrens of Toms River. 
The Fern Society was represented by Prof. R. A. Har- 
per, Dr. John H. Barnhart, Mr. O. A. Farwell, Miss 
Laura M. Bragg, of the Charleston Museum, Mrs. L. 
Keeler, and Miss I. H. Stebbins, of Rochester, who had 
been at the Hart’s-Tongue hunt. To my regret, I did not 
meet our President, Mr. Bissell, who, I have since heard, 
had joined our partyintheafternoon. Mr. Long also join- 
edus at the station, which we reached at half past twelve. 
After our lunch at the Ocean House, we started on our 
sandy walk. There are many ponds, pools, and sphag- 
num bogs in this section. Before reaching the first 
bog, we saw Eupatorium hyssopifolium and E. verbenae- 
folium, Cassia nictitans } 
Mariana, and the rarer C. faleata. The exquisite wands 
, Liatris graminifolia, var. dubia, made 
the places glow with color. It was said that Hupa- 
tor’um resinosum was found. I did not see it, but have 
read that nowhere in the world, except in the pine bar- 
rens of New Jersey, is this plant found. Tufts of 
Hudsonia tomentosa and ericoides and the dainty Poly- 
gonella articulata grow here and there. The first bog, 
having been reached by this time, gave such treasures 
as late specimens of the branching white flowered Sab- 
batia, red root, Lachnanthes tinctoria, Cranberries, Pitcher 
plants, the three Sundews, the round leaved, spatulate 
and thread leaved, a tiny Xyris—but no Schizaea. 
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