PLANTS OF SOUTHERNi NEW JERSEY. 521 



Middle District. — Shark River, New Egypt, Burlington, Pemberton (C), 

 New Lisbon (C), Lindenwold, Lawnside (S), Tomlin, Mickleton, Swedes- 

 boro, Elmer (P), Dividing Creek, Haleyville (P). 



Pine Barrens. — Long Branch, Forked River, Toms River, Allaire, Island 

 Hts. (NY), Manchester (NY), Tuckerton, Jones Mill (S), Speedwell (S), 

 Chatsworth, Atco, Jackson, Clementon, Bear Swamp, Braddocks Mill, Kenii- 

 worth (S), Albion, Andrews, Folsam, Landisville, Vineland (S), Hammonton, 

 Batsto, Pleasant Mills, Egg Harbor City, Mays Landing (NJ). 



Cape May.— Court House (S), Dias Creek (S), Whitesboro (S), Cold 

 Spring (S), Cape May (P). 



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Polygala cruciata L. Cross-leaved Milkwort. 

 PL LXXHL 

 Polygala cruciata Linnaeus Sp. PI. 706. 1753 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 11. — 

 Willis 17. — Britton 59. — Keller and Brown 210. 



Common in damp ground in the Pine Barrens and locally in 

 the Middle, Coast and Cape May districts, occurring at a few 

 stations north of our limits, but all within the coastal plain. 



This, and the smaller P. mittalli, are the most widely and uni- 

 formally distributed species of Polygala; occurring everywhere 

 throughout the New Jersey coastal plain, where conditions are 

 favorable, even down to the very edge of the salt meadows. 



While usually about the color of red clover, which it some- 

 what resembles as we see it scattered about among the grass and 

 sedges, Polygala cruciata is sometimes entirely greenish, a con- 

 dition that is more familiar in P. viridescens, in which the two 

 color phases were originally described as different species. 



Fl. — Late July to early October. 



Middle District.— hong, Branch, Ocean Beach (NJ), New Eg>-pt, Orchard 

 (S), Griffith's Swamps, Mickleton (NB), Swedesboro, Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River, Island Hts. Jnc, Forked River, Waretown, 

 West Creek, Coxe's, Plains, Woodmansie, Speedwell, Parkdale, Bear Swamp, 

 Williamstown Jnc, Winslow Jnc, Winslow (S), Twelfth St., Folsom, 

 Hammonton, Batsto, Egg Harbor City, Absecon, Palermo (S), Petersburg 

 (S), Tuckahoe (S), Ocean City Jnc, Woodbine. 



Coast Strip. — Seaside Park, Barnegat City (L). 



Cape May.— Green Creek, Cold Spring (S), Bennett (SV 



Polygala brevifolia Nutt. Short-leaved Milkwort. 

 PI. LXXVI. Fig. I. 

 Polygala brevifolia Nuttall Gen. II. 89. 1818 [Sandy swamps of New Jersey]. 

 — Willis 17. — Britton 59.— Keller and Brown 210. 



Comtmon in m'oist ground in the Pine Barren district, but 

 found elsewhere onlv in Secaucus Swamp, Huds( n County, and 



