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Bogs in the heart of the Pine Barrens, local. This plant is 

 limited to the same area that the Abama inhabits, but is much 

 rarer. It was originally discovered in the State by Dr. P. D. 

 Knieskern at Manchester [= Lakehurst] . The older botanists, 

 as well as Canby, A. H. and C. E. Smith, who were familiar with 

 the Abama, never found the Tofielda, and curiously enough 

 Knieskern apparently never succeeded in finding the former. 



After forty years the plant had not been found again, and Dr. 

 Britton could only quote Knieskern's record. On July 4, 1899, 

 however, Mr. C. F. Saunders collected it between Tuckerton and 

 Atsion on a savanna near Symmes' Place. 



On July 4, 1904, after reading Mr. Saunders' account, Mr. 

 H. L. Coggins and I visited a spot near High Bridge, over the 

 Wading River, where I thought conditions were favorable to its 

 growth, and sure enough the minute we entered on the flat 

 savanna land bordering the river, the white spikes of starry 

 flowers, like miniature Turkey-beard, were seen on either hand, 

 their heads reaching just above the grass and sedge. The follow- 

 ing day, below Speedwell, we found it again, and on Pole Branch 

 that afternoon a great patch of it was found mingled with the 

 yellow spikes of the Abama-, a truly wonderful sight, and not 

 content with the sandy bog, individual plants had established 

 themselves in damp spots in the middle of the old road, as if 

 they knew that they had little to fear from passing traffic. 



Fl. — Late June to mid- July. 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (C), Symmes' Place, High Bridge (S), Speed- 

 well, below Chatsworth, Pole Branch. 



ABAMA Adanson. 



Abama americana (Ker.). Bog Asphodel. 



PI. XXXIII., Figs. 2, 3. 



Narthecium americanum Ker., Bot. Mag. pi. 1505. 1812 [Quaker Bridge, N. 



J.].— Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. I. 227. 1814.— Torrey, Cat. N. Y. Plants, 



3S-— Torrey, Fl. U. S. I. 347.— Britton 243. 

 Narthecium ossifragum var. americanum Willis 65. 

 Abama americana Keller and Brown 97. — Saunders, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila. 



Locally common in bogs in the heart of the Pine Barrens. 



