454 RKP^^R'I' OF NI{\V JI'.RSKV SIWTE MUSEUM. 



Middle District. — Pt. Pleasant (C), New Egypt, Bordentown, Birmingham,. 

 Pembcrton (NB), Pensauken (S), Haddonfiekl (C), Woodbury (C), Little 

 Timber Creek (P), five mi. S. Micklcton, Mannington. 



SYNDESMON Hoffmansegg. 



Syndesmon thalictroides (L.)- Rue Anemone. 



Anemone 'J'lialiciroides Linnnsus, Sp. P!. 542. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Thalicirum anemonoides Knieskern 5. 

 AnemoneUa thalictroides Britton 34. 



Commion in woods of the northern counties, becoming scarce 

 and local southward in the Middle district. 



Fl. — 'Mid-April to mid-May. Fr. — MidnMay to mid-Jime. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Kinkora, Camden (CP), Moorestown (C), 

 Gloucester, Sewell (S), Swedcsboro, Quinton, Marlboro (C), Bridgeton (NB ). 

 Also a record for "Ma\'s Landing, Dr. Peters," quoted in Britton's catalogue, 

 probably from the edge of the river below the dam in the inward extension ot 

 the coast strip. Several other Middle District plants occur here which are not 

 known on the coast strip proper, and are completely cut off from their range 

 to the west by the Pine Barrens (c. f. Pijms virginiana) . 



CLEMATIS L.* 



Clematis virginiana L. Virgin's Bower. 



Clematis virginiana Linnjeu.s, Amocn. Acad. IV. 275. 1759 [Pennsylvania]. 

 — Knieskern 5. Britton 33. 



Thickets along streams; common in the northern counties and 

 less commonly southward in the Middle district to Cape May. 



F/.— Late Jul}' to late August. F/-.— Early September to early 

 Octol>er. 



Middle District.— Sh^rk River (Kn), Squan (Kn), Pt. Pleasant (S), New 

 Egypt, Birmingham, Pemberton (C), Cookstown (C), Wrightstown (C), 

 Medford (S). Camden (P), Mantua, Mullica Hill (C), Mickleton (NY), 

 Washington Park, Kirkwood (C), Swedesboro, Salem (C). 



Cape May.— New England (OHB). 



RANUNCULUS L. 



Ranunculus delphinifoiius Torr. Yellow Water Crowfoot. 



Ranunculus delphinifoiius Torrey, in Eaton's Man. Ed. IL 395. 1818 [Upper 



Louisiana]. — Keller and Brown 151. 

 Ranunculus niultifidus Britton 36. 



* Atragene is reported in Keller and Brown's list from "Pt. Pleasant,'' on 

 authority of Dr. J. Stokes. Dr. Stokes, however, informs me that Pt. 

 Pleasant, Pa., was intended, the plant growing on the New Jersey side of the 

 Delaware. 



