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like the more southern material. The species was not previously 

 known from this area. 



Urticaceae 



1. Urtica dioica L. Our specimens indicate that this nettle 

 is only rather sparingly established in the area. Small colonies 

 are known from almost throughout the range, following no very 

 well defined law of distribution. Most of the specimens are 

 from near some fair-sized settlement. 



2. Urtica gracilis Ait. Much more abundant in the northern 

 part of our range than southward. So far as New Jersey is 

 concerned only two stations are known south of New Brunswick, 

 Burlington and Gloucester Co. Has it ever been seen in the 

 southern part of the state? Does it grow on Long Island? 



3. Urtica Lyallii S. Wats. This species, very doubtfully speci- 

 fically distinct from U. dioica L., is represented by a single 

 specimen from Delaware Water Gap. The character of its rela- 

 tive length of petiole is about its only basis for specific recognition, 

 and many specimens of U. dioica have varying-sized leaf-stalks. 



4. Parietaria fioridana Nutt. This species is credited to our 

 range in Dr. Small's Flora of Southeastern United States (page 

 359)- There are no specimens, and its distributional tendencies 

 in the region are unknown. 



New York Botanical Garden 



A NEW SPECIES OF BLUE-BERRY FROM 

 NEW JERSEY 



By Kenneth K. Mackenzie 



On Decoration Day, 1907, while botanizing with Mr. W. W. 

 Eggleston at Tom's River, New Jersey, flowering specimens of a 

 blue-berry allied to Vaccinium corymhosum L. were collected by 

 me from a shrub growing immediately east of Jack's Fork along 

 the southern edge of the Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way. 

 The shrub grew in a white-cedar swamp with V. corymhosum 

 (then in full bloom) and V. atrococcum (A. Gray) Heller (about 



