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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



here pictured are undoubtedly much older than the human 

 giant in their midst. 



This remarkable and interesting forest is located in 

 southern New Jersey where it covers many square miles in the 

 ''sand barrens/' The particular woodland scene here illus- 

 trated was photographed by Mr. C. F. Saunders several years 

 ago, when with a companion he made a journey across the 

 region. The soil is a loo^se yellowish sand that was evidently 

 sea bottom not many aeons ago. Its apparent lack of fertility 

 explains the diminutive size of the arborescent vegetation. The 

 region is practically uninhabited and the facetious natives on 

 its borders assert that the only animal ever found in it was a 

 land turtle who was anxiously inquiring- the way to the poor 

 house. 



SOME NEW NEBRASKA PLANTS 



By J. M. Bates. 



/^N July 2, 1913, I collected a striking form of Psoralea 

 which Dr. Britton says is new to their herbarium. It 

 closely resembles P. argofhylla, Pursh, and until it is found in 

 fruit, will have to stand as Psoralea argophylla robtistior. 



It was found on the border of moist haylands and the sand 

 dunes, in large beds. The whole plant is very robust, with 

 stems 4 — 5 mm. in diameter, against 2 — 3 mm. for argophylla. 

 The leaflets are five, the larger 23 mm. broad, obovate to ob- 

 long, not longer than the longest of argophylla — about 4.5 cm. 

 Flowers of the same dark blue. Stipules linear 15 mm. long 

 against 10 mm. for argophylla. 



The plant was found 1^ miles south-west of Whitman, 

 Grant County, Nebraska, on the Lake border; also ten miles 

 south, in the yard of Mr. Ben. Matthewson who kindly made 

 the second collection for me on July 15th when the plant was 



