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The station is on the west side of a swamp, north of the rail- 

 road tracks which run to a sand sorting plant on the edge of 

 Delaware Bay, at Cape May Point. It covers several acres, one 

 open area of about two acres of sandy soil being almost exclu- 

 sively carpeted by it, and other colonies are scattered in the 

 sandy woods nearby. It may be the most northern station for 

 this Cladonia, which is recorded mostly from farther south by 

 Tuckerman. 



Two other Cladoniae of southern range, according to pub- 

 lished records, but which have been found in recent years, in 

 South Jersey, were also found by the writer on this trip. Another 

 station for Cladonia santensis, found for the first time in New 

 Jersey in Ocean County, in 1934, and since then in Atlantic, 

 Cumberland and Cape May Counties, was discovered at 

 Quaker Bridge, on Batsto River, south east of Atsion, Burling- 

 ton County. An ample station for Cladonia floridana, until 

 recent years not reported north of Maryland, but now known 

 from New Jersey and Long Island, was found at Hampton Gate, 

 Burlington County. 



Among flowering plants, notable species were the great Pine 

 Barren Gentian, Gentiana Porphyria, which Dr. Small showed 

 us near Atsion station on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, 

 and Lygodium palmatum, the Climbing Fern, in ample quantity 

 along at Hampton Gate. 



At Cumberland Furnace, in Cape May County, a plant new 

 to us was Opuntia Rafinesquii, differing from 0. vulgaris, of 

 northern New Jersey, Hudson Valley and Long Island stations, 

 in bearing, besides the clusters of small bristles, stout, longer 

 ones, up to an inch and a half in length, on the tips of the 

 fleshy stem sections. Polygala lutea, the Orange Milkwort, still 

 in bloom, in places where it had been mowed and sprung up 

 again, was strikingly attractive. Proserpinaca pectinata, in 

 ditches near Atsion, was another novelty to some of us. It oc- 

 curred with the strikingly three ranked sedge, Dulichium arundi- 

 naceum. A handsome grass named for us by Mr. Brown was 

 Glyceria ohtusa. The sedge Scirpiis Eriophorum, with its seeding 

 heads rusty brown, was common in wet spots. Persimmon trees 

 were heavy with fruit in the wet woods back of Town Bank, 

 north of Cape May Point. This dune strip, covered with red 

 cedars, is an interesting spot. Polygonella articulata was in full 



