PLANTS OF vSOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 443 



Order RANALES. 



Family NYMPH^ACE^. Water-Lilies. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Leaves peltate. 



b. Flowers purple, 10-16 mm. in diameter, sepals and petals three. 



Brasenia purpurea, p. 443 

 hb. Flowers yellow, 120-250 mm. in diameter, sepals 4-5, petals numerous. 



Nelumbo lutea, p. 446 

 aa. Leaves orbicular to oblong. 



b. Flowers white or tinged with pink, stamens yellow. 



Castalia odorata, p. 445 

 bb. Flowers yellow. 



c. Leaves smaller, floating, sinus closed, petiole flattened. 



Nyinphaea variegata, p. 444 

 cc. Leaves larger, erect, sinus open, petiole nearly terete. 



Nymphaea advena, p. 444 



BRASENIA Schreber. 

 Brasenia purpurea (Michx.). Water Shield. 



Hydropeltis purpurea Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. L 324, pi. 29. 1803 [Lower 

 Carolina and Tennessee]. 



Brasenia pelfata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. IL 389. 1814 [New Jersey to Caro- 

 lina].— Knieskern 6. — Willis 5. — Britton 43. 



Rather frequent in lakes and ponds of the northern counties 

 and in ponds and dammed streams in the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May district ; apparently rare in the Middle district. 



A very characteristic species of the old milldams in the Pine 

 Barrens, though its smaller peltate leaves and little maroon 

 colored flowers are not nearly so conspicuous as the showy 

 blooms and large leaves of the true Water Lilies. The petioles 

 and buds are encased in a thick coating of jelly-like mucilage. 



Fl. — Early June to early August. Fr. — Early July to early 

 September, probably. 



Middle District.— Ddanco (S), Shark River (Kn), Meteticunk River 

 (NY), Barrsville (Kn), Spring Garden (Willis). 



Pine Barrens.— Toms River, Forked River, Jackson, Atco, Atsion, Pan- 

 coast, Hammonton (Bassett.). 



Cape May.— Nummeytown (S), Cold Spring (OHB). 



