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,/ Pellaea glabella 2\Iett. ex Kuhn. When Butters (1917) pub- 

 lished on the status of Pellaea glabella he did not mention any 

 records from New Jersey. Lewis (1924) reported it from the 

 Highlands of the Delaware below Phillipsburg and other writers 

 have referred to isolated collections in the northwestern part of 

 the state, but no attempt has been made to summarize available 

 data. Small (1935) stated that the species occurs throughout 

 our range (including New Jersey), except the coastal plain, but 

 the writer has seen specimens from only two counties in north- 

 western New Jersey. There the species is locally distributed 

 wherever there are exposures of limestone. It sometimes occurs 

 in association with P. atropiirpurea, but at such localities usually 

 grows in more exposed places on the clifi's than does its close 

 relative. 



Sussex Co.: limestone ledge along Walkill River near Owens, 

 E &iC 62 (Claus, Corn, Edw), also A. N. Leeds 571 (Ph) ; south 

 of Springdale, E & C 63 (Claus, Edw) ; south of Branchville, 

 A. y. L. 292 (Ph) ; northwest of Brighton, A. N. L. 566 (Ph) ; 

 east- of Huntsburg, A. N. L. 567 (Ph) ; south of Huntsburg, 

 A. N. L. 568 (Ph) ; northwest of Lafayette, A. X. L. 570 (Ph) ; 

 also six other stations, fide J. L. Edwards. Warren Co. : Johnson- 

 burg, £ & C 1201 (Claus, Edw) ; also A. N. L. 569 (Ph) ; Mud 

 Pond, Stillwater, M (NY) ; also three other stations, fide J. L. 

 Edwards. 



/ PiNUS RESiNOSA Ait. Susscx Co. : summit of Breakneck Mt., 

 1400 ft., April 4. 1936. E & C 2096 (BH. Cornj. This seems to 

 be the first record of the occurrence of the Red Pine in New 

 Jersey. 



Pinus riglda ssp. serotina TAIichx.) n. comb. (Piniis serofina 

 3*Iichx.. Flor. Bor. Am. 2:205. 1803. Pinus rigida var. serotina 

 Loud., Arb. et Frut. Brit. 4:2242. 1838.) Long (1909) first 

 recorded this pine from New Jersey, from the margin of a swamp 

 about two miles northwest of Swedesboro. Gloucester County. 

 His specimens had pale leaves. 15-20 cm. long, with the sheaths 

 longer than in P. rigida, and with the spines of the cone-scales 

 very minute and mostly deciduous. 



The writer became interested in the taxonomic problem of the 

 relationships of the Pitch and Pond Pines as the result of collect- 

 ing specimens at West Cape May which were intermediate between 



