PLANTS OP SOUTHERN! NEW JERSEY. 501 



NIeibomia pauciflora (Nutt.). Few-flowered Tick-trefoil. 



Hedysarum pauciflorum Nuttall, Gen. 2: log. 1818 [Ohio and Kentucky]. 



Rare in the Middle district, only known from New Egypt, 

 where it was collected by Mr. J. H. Grove, July 24, 1906. 

 Flowers and immature fruit July 24. 

 Middle District. — New Egypt. 



iVIeibomia micliauxii Vail. Trailing Tick-trefoil. 



Meibomia Michauxii Vail, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XXIII. 140. 1896, n. n. for 



Hedysarum rotundifolium Mich, (nee Vahl) [Carolina]. 

 Desmodium rotundifolium Knieskern 12. — Willis 18. — Britten 84. 



Frequent in the dry woods of the northern counties, occasional 

 southward in the Middle, Pine Barren and Cape May districts. 

 Our only trailing species. 



Fl. — Late July to early September. Fr. — Late x\ugust to 

 early October. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Sicklerville, Mickleton (C), Swedesboro. 

 Pine Barrens. — Pen Bryn (S), Ancora, Absecon, Landisville. 

 Cape May.— Goshtn {S). 



Meibomia sessilifoiia (Torr.). Sessile-leaved Tick-trefoil. 



Hedysarum sessilifolium Torrey in Curtis Bost. Jour. N. H. I. 122, 1834 [Wil- 

 mington, N. C.]. 



Sandy, open ground at Hammonton, where it was first col- 

 lected by the writer on September 13, 1903. The only known 

 locality in the State and the northern limit of the species, except 

 the lower Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania. 

 Pine Barrens. — Hammonton. 



iVIeibomia stricta (Pursh.). Stiff Tick-trefoil. 



Hedysarum strictum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 483, 1814 [Pine woods, N. J.]. — 



Nuttall Gen. II. 109. 1818.— Barton Fl. Phila. II. 79- 1818. 

 Desmodium strictum Knieskern 12. — Willis 18. — Britton 85. 

 Meibomia stricta Keller and Brown 200. 



Dry sandy woods ; rather rare and local and mainly confined 

 to the Pine Barrens, although it occurs sporadically in West 

 Jersey. This region constitutes its northern limit. This is one 

 of the most distinctive Pine Barren species of Meibomia, easily 

 recognized by its very slender leaves, small flowers and few seg- 

 ments to the pods. It grows in abundance along the roads, 

 running parallel to the Egg Harbor River, l)elow Mays Landing. 



