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names." To date 1,737 different species, varieties, and forms of 

 wild plants and 533 of cultivated plants have been found in the area 

 within 10 miles of the town hall of Watchung. 



Among the 444 different kinds of wild plants identified on these 

 two trips were many not before recorded on these pages. In Seeley's 

 Notch we found the northern hedge-hyssop (Gratiola neglecta), 

 glaucous honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica) clearweed (Pilea pumila) , 

 common wild-indigo (Baptisia tinctoria), hairy bedstraw {Galium 

 pilosum), common wild-liquorice (G. circaesans) , American hedge 

 bindweed {Convolvulus americanus), reed canary-grass {Phalaris 

 arundinacea), and Virginia bugleweed {Lycopus virginicus) . Six 

 kinds of Rubus were studied and compared with each other, R. al- 

 leghaniensis, R. jrondosus, R. hispidus, R. occidentalis, R. phoeni- 

 colasius, and R. procumhens. The showy purple-flowering rasp- 

 berry and three hickories, Carya cordijormis, C. glabra, and C. 

 ovata, were found also in the Notch. On a dump at Fanwood several 

 plants of the large white ground-cherry {Leucophysalis grandiflora) 

 turned out to be the most important find of the day. I know of no 

 other record of this species from the Middle Atlantic States. Three 

 species of locust were in full bloom and provided a splendid show — 

 the clammy locust, black locust {Robinia pseudo-acacia) , and bristly 

 locust {R. hispida). The hollyhock {Althaea rosea) was discovered 

 as an escape. 



On the Second Watchung Mountain we found the leaves of 

 northern wild-comfrey {Cynoglossuin boreale), numerous speci- 

 mens of pitch pine {Pinus rigida) , butternut {Juglans cinerea), 

 black walnut (/. nigra), common speedwell {Veronica officinalis) , 

 and thymeleaf speedwell ( V. serpyllijolia) . Six kinds of Viburnum 

 were studied — the mapleleaf arrow-wood, snowball-tree, downyleaf 

 arrow-wood, American cranberry-tree, common arrow-wood {V. 

 dentatum), and black-haw {V. prunifolium) , all in flower. In 

 Wetumpka Notch we found the meadow garlic {Allium canadense) 

 growing almost alongside of the common wild garlic seen on every 

 previous trip. The American trembling aspen {Populns tremu- 



^ Nomenclature, both scientific and common, for the wild flora is in accord- 

 ance with that used in "A list of the observed flora of Watchung, N. J., and 

 its immediate vicinity," distributed by the Union County Park Commission, 

 Warinanco Park, Elizabeth, N. J. (1940) and, for the cultivated flora, in 

 accordance with that used in "Cultivated Plants," by H. N. Moldenke (1938) 



