PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 707 



men had passed through the hands of Dr. Thomas C. Porter 

 and Charles E. Smith, the latter of whom presented it to Dr. 

 Britton for the State collection. 



Galium asprellum Michx. Rough Bedstraw, 

 PI. CXVIL, Fig. 2. 

 Galium asprellum Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 78. 1803 [N. Canada]. — Britton 

 126. 



Moist thickets; frequent in the northern counties and occa- 

 sional southward in the Middle district. 



PL — Early July to late August. Fr. — Probably late August 

 into October ; usually imperfect and uncommon. 

 Middle District. — Farmingdale (NB), New Egypt, Sharptown. 



Galium hispidulum Michx. Coast Bedstraw. 



PL CXVL, Fig. 2. 

 Galium hispidulum Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 79. 1803 [Lower Carolina]. — 



Keller and Brown 301. — O. H. Brown, Bartonia 1910. 

 Galium peregrinum Britton 127. 



Discovered in sandy ground on the Bay shore near the steam- 

 boat landing at Cape May Pt. September 2, 1874, by Mr. Albert 

 Commons, and re-discovered in considerable abundance in the 

 same neighborhood in September, 19 10, by Mr. O. H. Brown. 

 Town Bank is the most northern station for the species. 



Fl. — Mid-July into August, probably. Fr. — Late September 

 or October, persisting into December. 



Cape ilfay.— Cape May Pt., Town Bank. 



Family CAPRIFOLIACE^. Honeysuckles, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Upright herbs, 6-10 dm. high. Leaves opposite, ovate to oval, abruptly 



narrowed near the base and clasping or perfoliate. Flowers purplish 



axillary, fruit an orang-yellow drupe. Triosteum, p. 711 



aa. Chmbing woody vines with opposite ovate leaves and tubular, five-lobed, 



somewhat two-lipped flowers. 



b. Flowers scarlet or somewhat tinged with yellow, berries scarlet. 



Lonicera sempervirens, p. 712 

 hh. Flowers white, turning to buff, berries black. [L. japonica]* 



bbb. Flowers yellowish green, tinged with purple. L. dioica, p. 712 



aaa. Woody shrubs, flowers small, white, in compound cymes. 



b. Leaves pinnate, berries purplish black. Sambucus, p. 708 



* Woodbine honeysuckle, escaped from cultivation. 



