PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 639 



Sabatia stellaris Pursh. Sea Pink. 

 PI. CVL, Fig. 3. 



Sabbatia stellaris Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. I. 137. 1814 [Salt marshes of New 

 York, New Jersey, etc.]. — Knieskern 25. — Willis 49. — Britton 171. — Keller 

 and Brown 255. 



Abundant on the salt marshes of the coast and lower Delaware 

 Bay and up the large tidewater streams. 



This is one of the most abundant and characteristic flowering 

 plants of the salt meadows, and its starry pink blooms with their 

 yellow eye do much to produce that great profusion of color 

 which marks the edge of the marshes toward the end of summer. 

 Their stems and leaves are somewhat inconspicuous, and it some- 

 times looks as if the pink stars might have been scattered broad- 

 cast over the low coarse grass and rushes of the meadows. 

 White flowered plants occur occasionally and starved dwarf in- 

 dividuals are sometimes found. 



Fl. — Late July to early September. 



Maritime. — Long Branch, Pt. Pleasant, Barnegat Pier, Spray Beach (L), 

 Sherburn's (L), West Creek (S), Brigantine, Atlantic City, Crowleytown, 

 Ocean City (S), Sea Isle City (S), Stone Harbor, Clermont, Wildwood, 

 Anglesea, Bennett, Cape May, Green Creek, Dennisville, Beaver Dam. 



Introduced at Batsto and Main Road Sta. 



Sabatia gracilis (Michx.). Slender Sea Pink. 



Sabbatia gracilis Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I: 146. 1803 [Lower Carolina]. 



Sabbatia gracilis Britton 171. 



Sabbatia campanulata Keller and Brown 255. 



B'rackish or fresh marshes along the coast and on the Dela- 

 ware River at Burlington ; local and not always clearly distinct 

 from the last. 



The record in Keller and Brov/n's List for Atco has not been 

 authenticated and seems unlikely. 



Fl. — Mid-July to mid-August. 



Middle District. — Burlington. 



Coast Strip. — Ocean Grove, Spring Lake (NB), Pt. Pleasant, Ocean 

 Beach (C), Sherburn's (L), Court House (NB), Cold Spring (S), Cape 

 May (S), W. Cape May. 



