FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Trip ok June 18 to Freehold, X. J. 



Botanical exploration in Xew Jersey has had its greatest interest 

 in the pine barrens and in the limestone areas in the northwestern 

 part of the state. The intermediate areas have been somewhat 

 neglected, and it was felt that the areas west and southwest of 

 Pemberton might well offer some things of botanical interest. To 

 me especially it would be interesting to find a good stand of Listera 

 australis, which is known from a single collection on Long Island 

 and a very few scattered collections in Xew Jersey. Dr. Small and 

 other members of the party met us at Freehold, increasing the 

 number to twelve. 



Proceeding westward from Freehold we stopped at an old 

 fallow field covered with a good deal of Convolvulus scpium, 

 Euphorbia corollata, and Carcx anncctcns. These are common 

 species of no great interest except in their abundance. A few miles 

 southwest of Freehold toward Smithville we came to the first 

 wild area of Pinus rigida, with an equal amount of P. cchinata. 

 It is difficult for people at first to distinguish between the two 

 species, but after the trees are once seen and carefully observed 

 the short needles, small cones, and upward tilt of the branches of 

 P. echinata can be readily distinguished. It was Dr. Chrysler 

 who first pointed out to me during the Atlantic City meeting a few 

 years ago the great frequency of P. cchinata in the pine barrens 

 and the distinguishing features by which it can be recognized. 

 On roadside cuts Tephrosia virginiana was in full flower, exposing 

 the long roots which have earned it such a name as ''devil's shoe- 

 strings'' in the South. We were pleasantly surprised by the great 

 amount of mayflower, Epigaea repens, in these woods. 



Continuing southward on the old road to Prospertown we 

 cut into the open margin of a pine barren swamp, with the usual 

 flora: Xcrophyllum asphodeloides, a few inflorescences still intact; 

 Lciophyllum huxifoUuui ; Polygala hitca; and traces of the beauti- 

 ful purple-scaled pine barren sedge Carex Barrattii, which proved 

 to be fairly abundant in the open. \ery wet bogs closer to the road, 

 where it was accompanied, as is so often the case, by C. bullata. 

 At the edge of a ditch Glyccria canadensis was abundant, a 

 species certainly not common in the pine barrens and perhaps an 



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