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Fl. — Early June to early July. Pr. — Early July to early 

 August or into September. 



Middle District. — Keyport (C), Birmingham (NB), Griffith's Swamp (S), 

 Medford (S), Westville (KB), Woodbury (H), Lindcnwold (S), Clemen- 

 ton, lona (P), Centerton (S). 



Pine Barrens. — Folsom, Hainmonton (Bassett). 



Family VERBENACE^E. Verbenas. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Plant decumbent, flowers in a globular head. Lippia, p. 66i 



aa. Plant erect, flow'crs in slender spikes. 



b. Flowers white. Verbena urticifoHa, p. 660 



bb. Flowers blue or purplish. 



c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, petioled. V. hastata, p. 660 



cc. Leaves linear to spatulate, lanceolate, mainly sessile. 



V. angustifolia, p. 661 

 VERBENA L. 

 Verbena urticifolia L. White Verbena. 



Verbena urticifolia Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 20. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. — Knies- 

 kern 23. — Britton 194. 



Frequent in the Northern and Middle districts; usually in 

 cultivated or waste ground. ' Two records from the Pine Barrens 

 are obviously recently introduced plants. 



Fl. — Late June to early September. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Swedesboro (CDL). 

 Pine Barrens. — Landisville (T), Weymouth. 



Verbena hastata L. Purple Verbena, Blue Vervain. 



Verbena hastata Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 20. 1753 [Canada]. — Barton Fl. Phila. IL 

 41. 1818. — Knieskern 2^- — Britton 194. 



Open moist ground; common throughout the State, except in 

 the Pine Barrens, where it is absent. 



One of the components of the typical late summer flora of 

 the damp meadows and swamps of the Middle district, along with 

 Bupatorium inaculatitm, B. perfoliatum, Asclepias pulchra, Ver- 

 nonia novehoracensis, etc. 



Fl. — Late June to early September. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, New Egypt, Masonville, Pemberton Jnc. 

 (S), Medford (S), Chairville (S), Oaklyn (S), Lawnside (S), Clementon, 

 Swedesboro (CDL), Beaver Dam. 



Coast Strip. — Peahala (L), Beach Haven Terrace (L), Absecon (S), 

 Atlantic City (S), Crowleytown, Ocean City (S). 



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



