Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Leaves of the pitcher plant photographed in March wlnrc they were growing on the ground in the dense velvet of sphagnum moss in a cedar swamp. The yellowish green leaves are pitchers handsomely veined with crimson
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On the lower plain, patches of broom crowberry (Coreina Conradii) and dwarf oaks. Reindeer lichen and flowering moss carpet the ground and spatter-docks, while at the edges grow cinnamon and royal ferns, pitcher plants, sundews, and hladderworts. True savannahs similar to those of the southern states are found in the pine barren region, as along some branches of Wading River. These are usually terraced, presenting alter- nately a wet terrace and a dry terrace. Grasses and sedges with a few jwculiar and characteristic herbs cover these savannahs, which are distinguished by the growth of scattered pitch pine or white cedar trees. These are open, sun- lit Ijreaks in the monotonous forests of pine and white cedar. The growing season in the Pine Bar- rens is between the last killing frost of spring and the first killing frost of autumn. At Yineland, according to 251

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