The adaptation of plants to different climates is an interesting subject for observation, and some curious facts are brought to light in botanizing in different sections.

Some plants seem to do equally well in similar soils without much regard to temperature or humidity. Gerardia quercifolia and pedicularis and Lupinus perennis are examples of this class, growing in light soils both North and South. On the other hand, Trientalis Americana and Medeola Virginica, which are common in rich woodlands in Massachusetts, are only found in low peaty-lands here in New Jersey, and Aspidium thely-pteris and Onoclea sensibilis, found only in swamps here, grow everywhere by the roadside and in pasture there, and still more notably, Arisema triphyl-lum, which at the North is freely distributed in rich woodlands everywhere and sometimes remains in grass fields, is only found in the wettest swamps here, growing directly out of the water. But perhaps the most singular fact connected with this plant is that the acrid taste, which is not only characteristic at the North, but so decided that no one who ever tasted will forget it, is absent in our specimens, and the bulbs can be eaten with impunity.

Curiously enough, we find Epigaea repens in great abundance near the top of Hoosac Mountain, growing in cold, damp soil, and exposed to the raking west winds, while here it is equally abundant in our dry, sandy, half-open woodlands, more or less exposed to the scorching summer sunshine of such localities; Cypripedium acaulc, also - which is abundant everywhere here, growing on our lightest soils. At the North we only found it in damp forests where beech and spruce formed a considerable portion of the timber. We should hardly expect to find plants peculiar to rich woodlands in the North growing on the sea beach here, but there is a place in Atlantic City called Hill's Creek, where we find several of them apparently at home.

In this place the Myricas and other shrubs have so stopped the drift as to form a line of low sandhills around a few acres of half-marshy land, only leaving an open side not much exposed to wind, and with a narrow belt or border gently sloping from the sand-hills to the marsh, sheltered from the hot sun by a low and spreading growth of red cedars, holly, etc, and here in the mixture of sand and leaf mould we find Geranium Robertianum, Trientalis Americana and Mitchella repens in abundance, and a few plants of Aquilegia Canadensis, which we have never seen elsewhere on the yellow drift or sand barrens. We also find Asplenium ebeneum and Arenaria lateriflora, which is, according to Gray, a New England plant.