Lakewood. He adds that it has thoroughly adapted itself in some 

 places and has the appearance of a native plant ; farmers there- 

 abouts, he comments, told him that the "Blue Weed" had been 

 frequent at Lakewood for twenty-five years and was elsewhere 

 in Monmouth County. The Lakewood station is substantiated in 

 the herbarium of the N. Y. Bot. Gd. by Baldwin (July, 1918) and 

 E. G. Barnhart (June, 1921). Monachino #341 (August, 1937; 

 was collected at Lakehurst, Ocean County, where in conspicuous- 

 ness it perhaps superseded that described by Bayard Long some 

 twenty years ago ; and in no less profusion, I have also observed 

 several stations of Jasiouc montana in Burlington County. 



Croton glaiidiilosus L. The stations in the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia for 'this Euphorbiaceous species have been long known. A. M. 

 Ferguson, in "Crotons of the United States" (1901), page 52, 

 writes, "A form, reported as common below the Navy Yard, 

 Philadelphia (Diffenbough, 1864; Martindale, 1865; and Parker, 

 1866, 1867, on ballast ground), is C. glandnlosus scordioides 

 (Lam.) Muell. Arg." In 1921, Bayard Long, Rhodora 2Z: 221, 

 223, refers to these old stations and includes the collections from 

 Newcastle, Del. (1866, a single plant only), and that from Kaighn's 

 Point, Camden, N. J. (1865, 1866). He continues, "The last col- 

 lection appears to have been in 1879, from ballast grounds in 

 Philadelphia." Bayard Long proceeds tq report his observations 

 near Atco, Camden County, N. J., wher''e he saw many hundreds 

 of vigorous plants of the Glandular Croton. On September, 1937, 

 I collected my #381 (deposited in the Local Herb. N. Y. B. G.) 

 near Barnegat, Ocean County, N. J., where it was flourishing in 

 a huge colony of ripe-seeded C. gland ulosus var. septentrionalis 

 Muell. Arg. form of the species. 



Joseph Monachino 



New York Botanical Garden. 



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Wings at My Window by Ada Clapham Goven (Macmillan Com- 

 pany) is a true bird story with an intensely interesting human back- 

 ground. Birds need natural woodland and plants that give them 

 shelter and food. Protecting the birds provides for a more ade- 

 quate balance of nature. We need more books of this kind. 



