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the Basil, Satureja vulgaris, a characteristic late summer plant 

 of such situations in the Catskills was very common. 



Farida Wiley 



Cape May County New Jersey, October 3-4 



The week end trip in Cape May County, N.J., returning 

 through the Pine Barrens with stops at various points, on Oct. 

 3 and 4 proved unusually interesting. We were fortunate in 

 having as a guide Mr. Otway H. Brown, of Cape May, a local 

 expert on the flora, particularly so on the grasses, sedges and 

 rushes, which were numerous. Dr. J. M. Small, Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at the New Jersey College for Women, who 

 was in the party, with Mrs. Small and three of his students, and 

 who is thoroughly acquainted with the South Jersey flora and 

 with stations for rarer species, also made the trip highly in- 

 structive. 



To the writer, the high light of the trip was the finding of 

 an ample and secure station for Cladonia leporina, a beautiful 

 branching member of this genus, resembling C. Boryi or some 

 of the sub-genus Cladina in its densely branching structure, but 

 with scarlet apothecia. This station was probably known to the 

 late Dr. J. H. Eckfeldt, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sci- 

 ences and Philadelphia Botanical Club, who collected in Cape 

 May County, 40 years ago, with Mr. Brown, who recalled 

 Dr. Eckfeldt's finding of many lichens. But as no specimen was 

 deposited in any herbarium, when Dr. Alexander W. Evans, 

 of Yale University, leading American worker on Cladoniae, 

 compiled his paper on "The Cladoniae of New Jersey," which 

 appeared in the July-Aug. 1935 issue of Torreya, he listed the 

 record of C. leporina as inconclusive, in the absence of available 

 material, although he suggested it might be expected in New 

 Jersey. 



George F. Dillman, a member of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 found this station, which is in the Witmer Stone Bird Sanc- 

 tuary, at Cape May Point, on Sept. 6, and sent me a box of it, 

 not knowing it but suspecting it to be unusual. I recognized it, 

 from material I had received from Arkansas and North Caro- 

 lina, determined by Dr. Evans, and sent it to him. He was much 

 pleased to have it definitely restored to the Cladoniae of New 

 Jersey. 



