TORREYA 
October, 1912 
Vol. 12 No Io. 
ON THE ORIGIN AND PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF 
THE PINE-BARRENS OF NEW JERSEY* 
By NORMAN TAYLOR 
The peculiarly characteristic features of the pine-barrens oi 
New Jersey have always attracted the interest of botanists and 
zoólogists. Indeed, the region is so unusual that the ordinary 
traveler is at once struck with the difference between these 
sandy plains and pine-tree vegetation, and the richer flora further 
north. The recent excellent flora! of this region by Mr. Witmer 
Stone has renewed interest in this botanically unique country. 
The true limits of the pine-barrens are perhaps for the first 
time clearly drawn by Stone in this work, there having been 
previously considerable difference of opinion as to how far south 
in New Jersey the true pine-barren element extended. Formerly 
the pine-barrens were supposed to consist of all the remainder of 
the state south of their northern edge, but explorations of the 
botanists of Philadelphia have resulted in a final delimitation of 
this interesting region. The accompanying map (fig. 1) copied 
from Stone’s book well shows the limits of the pine-barrens. The 
darker colored portion surrounding the white is not pine-barren 
in character, and maintains a very different flora from the pine- 
barrens. 
* Some attempt has been made to correlate these areas or parts 
of them [the coastal plain, including the pine-barrens] with the 
underlying geological formation, but . . . such correlation is not 
[No. 9, Vol. 12, of TORREYA, comprising pp. 201—228, was issued 3 September r9r2.] 
* Investigation prosecuted with the aid of a grant from the Esther Herrman 
Research Fund, of the New York Academy of Sciences. (Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden: Contributions No. 4.) 
!Stone, W. The plants of southern New Jersey, with especial reference to the 
flora of ах pine-barrens. Ann. Rept. №. Jersey State Mus. 1910: 25-828 
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