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lata; Iliidsonia ericoides; the sand ni\rtle, Leiophyllum buxi- 

 folium; the red-root, Lachnanthes tinctoria; and, in the drier 

 places, the turkey-beard, Xerophyllum asphodeloides. Somewhat 

 further along, at Atsion, we were given an opportunity to review 

 some of these, while encountering still more novelties, including 

 Lobelia Canbyi, Arenaria caroliniana, Euphorbia ipecacuanha, 

 and Rubus cunefolius . Lunching on a side road near Atsion, we 

 observed the drier phase of the barrens, beneath pines and oaks. 

 After lunch a delightful drive along a narrow, sandy lane 

 through an unbroken pine barren forest brought us to the 

 neighborhood of Hampton Furnace, on the Batsto River. The 

 name is reminiscent of the days when iron was obtained from 

 rocks underlying the bogs, but the region is now virtually 

 without human habitation. Here Dr. Small, having set our feet 

 moving in the proper direction, allowed us to have the thrill of 

 discovering for ourselves the climbing fern, Lygodium palmatum, 

 entwined among the dense vegetation fringing the narrow river, 

 and here we also first came upon the little plants that "eat bugs 

 and ants and gnats and flies," members of the "new carnivora" 

 — Sarracenia purpurea. 



At Skits Branch, precariously treading upon the firmer 

 clumps and clinging to bushes to keep from sinking beneath 

 the muck, we felt we were truly "in the heart of the pine bar- 

 rens," and especially after we had found Narthecium ameri- 

 canum, the bog asphodel, and Lophiola aurea, we felt that Wit- 

 mer Stone's enthusiastic portrayal of the pine barrens, which 

 Dr. Small read to us here, must have been prepared at this very 

 spot. 



Coming back upon a paved highway along the Pole Branch 

 of Wading River, little colonies of curly grass, Schizaea pusilla, 

 rewarded our search. Passing through Chatsworth, "the capital 

 of the pine barrens," we came out upon New Jersey State Route 

 40, stopping by the roadside near Whiting to observe a clump 

 of bear-berry, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi. At Lakehurst we viewed 

 from afar the wreckage of the Hindenburg, after which we pro- 

 ceeded via Lakewood to Bay Head and drove southwards in 

 the evening to Seaside Park, where we studied the succession 

 of vegetation on the dunes, from almost bare sand, dotted here 

 and there by Carex macrosperma and Artemisia Stelleriana, to 

 the pseudo-turf formed by Iludsonia and finally to a sparse 



