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plant's distribution in the range. It is doubtless common but 

 specimens are desired to permanently record its true distributional 

 status. 



3. Sniilax Pseudo-China L. In a footnote to page 239 of 

 Britton's catalogue of New Jersey plants we read "... ad- 

 mitted into the Preliminary catalogue on the authority of Gray's 

 manual, . . . not definitely known to me from the state." Dr. 

 Britton's manual credits the species with a range from Maryland 

 southward, but says nothing about any Jersey stations. The 

 new Gray manual still credits the plant to southern New Jersey, 

 but to offset this there is complete neglect of the species in the 

 carefully compiled catalog of the plants of Philadelphia and 

 vicinity. Has the plant ever been found growing in southern 

 Jersey ? 



4. Sinilax hispida Muhl. Although this species is supposed 

 to grow " from Ontario to Va.," etc., our most northerly station 

 is Andover, Sussex Co., N. J. Its distribution in the upper 

 counties of Pennsylvania and in New York state above the Jersey 

 state line is completely unknown. 



5. Sinilax Bona-nox L. Both manuals give New Jersey as 

 a state in which this plant grows. The combined collections 

 here do not show the plant as coming north of Virginia. The 

 Philadelphia catalog excludes the plant from New Jersey but 

 credits it to Delaware, If the station at Nantucket is correct,* 

 the apparent lack of the plant between Maryland and Massa- 

 chusetts is curious. If, on the other hand, the Massachusetts 

 station should prove to be invalid we have still to account for 

 the plant's distribution in south Jersey and adjacent Pennsylvania. 



6. Sinilax laurifolia L. The only two specimens from the range 

 are both from stations just to the westward of Barnegat, N. J, 

 The general distribution of " southern New Jersey " includes 

 more territory than the specimens in our collections represent. 

 A northern extension of the range may be looked for. 



7. Sinilax Walteri Pursh. There is a very meager representa- 



* E. P. Bicknell in his serial flora of Nantucket, now appearing in the bulletin of 

 the Torrey Club, says that the occuirence of this plant in Massachusetts is doubt- 

 ful, and excludes it from the island, the only recorded occurrence of it in that state. 



