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TORREYA 



Vol. 33 March-April, 1933 No. 2 



Noteworthy plants observed in New Jersey 

 during 1932 



M. A. Chrysler 



Phoradendron flavescens (Pursh) Nutt. During April one of 

 the New Brunswick High School boys reported to the teacher 

 of biology that he had found mistletoe near his home in Deans, 

 a village 8 miles south-west of New Brunswick. On 27 April 

 the writer visited the locality and found rather small plants of 

 mistletoe growing by the dozen out of burls on the trunk and 

 larger branches of a mature specimen of Liquidambar Styraci- 

 flua, also on a fallen tree of the same species. The trees grew in 

 low ground with red maples, etc., by a branch of Lawrence 

 Brook. 



The finding of these specimens is of interest in confirming 

 the report of W. M. Canby nearly 50 years ago that he had ob- 

 served the plant between Trenton and New Brunswick. 1 The 

 plant has been reported from a number of places in south Jer- 

 sey, 2 and specimens are preserved in the herbaria in New York 

 and Philadelphia, but the station is now fixed at a point near 

 New Brunswick, about as far north as the plant now occurs, 

 although there is reason to think that it earlier grew on Staten 

 Island. 3 Forty degrees appears to be about the north limit of 

 the species. Schneck (1. c.) considers Nyssa and Ulmus to be 

 the most frequent hosts of mistletoe in the northern part of its 

 range, and makes no reference to Liquidambar , although this 

 was the host on which mistletoe formerly grew in the neighbor- 

 hood of Keyport, N. J. 



Dentaria heterophylla Nutt. This plant was located by the 

 writer on 6 May in small numbers under the shade of trees on a 



1 Schneck, J. Notes on Phoradendron flavescens Nutt. IT. Botan. Gazette 

 9: 101-103. 1884. 



2 Stone, Witmer. The plants of southern New Jersey. N. J. State Museum 

 Rept. 1910. 



3 Bui. Tor. Bot. Club 11: 76. 1884. 



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