PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEAV JERSEY. 435 



SESUVIUM L. 



Sesuvium maritimum (Walt.)- Sea Purslane. 



Pharnacium maritimum Walter, Fl. Car. 117. 1788 [South Carolina]. 

 Sesuvium sessile Nuttall Gen. I. 306. 1818. 

 Sesuvium -portulacastrum Knieskern 9. — Willis 13. 

 Sesuvium maritimum Britton 112. — Keller and Brown 137. 



Occasional on the sea beaches ; not nearly as abundant in New 



Jersey as most statements would lead one to suppose. 



-P"/.— Early July into September. Fr. — Mid-July into October. 



Maritime.—DtsX, Halfway House south of Bond's (L), Sherburn's (L), 

 Ocean City, Wildwood, Cape May (S). 



Family PORTULACACE^. Purslane, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Plant prostrate, flowers yellow. [Portulaca oleracea]* 



aa. Plant erect, flowers white striped with pink. Claytonia, p. 435 



CLAYTONIA L. 



Claytonia virginica L. Spring Beauty. 



PI. LXXXIV., Fig. 2. 



Claytonia virginica Linnseus, Sp. PI. 204. 1753 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 9. — 



Britton 66. 



Common in moist woodland in the northern counties and less 

 abundant and local southward in the Middle district. 



Fl. — Early April to mid-May. Fr. — Early May to mid-June. 

 Middle District. — Keyport (C), New Egypt, Bordentown, Burlington (C), 

 Kinkora, Fish House, Pensauken (S), Camden, Pemberton (NB), Moores- 

 town (C), Haddonfield (C), Gloucester, Woodbury, Mickleton (NB), Marl- 

 boro (C), Alloway, Quinton, Salem (C), Swedesboro, Stoe Creek. 



Family CARYOPHYLLACE^. Pinks, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Sepals united into a cup-like or tubular calyx. 



h. Calyx with two or more lance, awl-form bracts at its base, flowers 

 pink. [Dianthus armeriaY 



bb. Calyx without bracts. 



c. Five-toothed and ten-nerved. 



d. Styles 5, flowers red-purple, 20-80 mm. broad. 



[Agrostetnma githagoY 



* Purslane, an abundant and familiar fleshy weed. 

 ^ Deptford Pink. Frequent weed in fields. 

 ° Corn Cockle. A grain-field weed. 



