PUAiNTS O'F SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 125 



tussock-like root stalk of last year and) gradually unfurl into the 

 erect slender cinnamon plumes, which give the plant its name, 

 and from which clouds of the fine dust-like spores are detached 

 when we brush against them. About the time they have reached 

 this stage the green sterile fronds of the ordinary fern-like 

 structure unfurl, after which the fruiting fronds wither and 

 perish. This is our largest fern, and the broad green fronds, 

 sometimes three feet in length, form a conspicuous feature of 

 both wooded and open swamps. 



Spores Mature. — Early or mid-May, as the fronds uncoil, 

 very shortly after which the fertile fronds begin to wither and 

 soon perish. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, New Egypt, Delanco, Medford (S) De- 

 laire, Camden, Haddonfield (S), Lindenwold (S), Tomlin, Mickleton, 

 Swedesboro, Mantua, Glassboro, Beaver Dam. 



Pine Borre«.r.— Allaire (S), Atco (UP) Andrews, Cedar Brook, Ham- 

 monton (Bassett), Mays Landing (UP), Mbnumuskin (UP). 



Coast Strip. — Beach Haven Terrace (L), Spray Beach (L). 



Cape May.—Goshtn (S), Cape May (OHB:). 



Osmunda claytoniana D. Clayton's Fern. 



Osmunda claytoniana Linnseus, Sp. PI. 1066. 1753 [ Virginia] .—Britton 312. 

 North Jersey, but casual or rare in our region, occurring only 

 in the Middle district. 



Spores Mature.' — Early or mid-May as the fronds uncoil. Fer- 

 tile portion is commonly dried up by late May, but persists 

 through the summer. 



Middle District.— Freehold (C), New Egypt, &nkora, Delaire, near Cam- 

 den (UP), Swedesboro, Mullica Hill (H). 



Family SCHIZ^ACE^. 



SCHIZ/EA J. E. Smith. 



Schizaea pusilla Pursh. Curly Grass. 



PI. 66, Fig. I. 



Schizcea pusilla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 6S7-- 1814 [Quaker Bridge, Burlington 

 Co., N. J.].— Rafinesque, Amer. Mo. Mag. II., p. i74- 1818.— Nuttall II. 

 249— Knieskern 41.— Willis 79.— Britton 312.— Keller and Brown 8.— 

 Cooper, Ann. Lye N. Y. II. 266. 1828.— Redfield, Bull. Torrey Club VI. 

 82. 1876.— Saunders, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, pp. 548, S49. 



