650 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Asclepias exaltata (L.). Tall Milkweed. 



Asclepias Syriaca var. exaltata Linnseus, Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 313. 1762 [Virginia]. 

 Asclepias exaltata Britton 169. — Keller and Brown 260. 



Edges of wbods and thickets; rather frequent in the northern 

 counties, but only known within our limits from the record in 

 Britton's Catalogue : "Roadside near Moorestown — Miss Anna 

 M. Kaighn," and the statement of Mr. C. S. Williamson that 

 he once observed it at Mt. Holly. No specimens are preserved. 

 The record for "Egg Harbor [City] — Leeds" in Brown and 

 Keller's List is A. rubra. 



Asclepias quadrifolia Jacg. Four-leaved Milkweed. 



Asclepias quadrifolia Jacquin, Obs. Part 2, 8 pi. Z2- ^1^7 [Virginia]. — Brit- 

 ton 170. 



Frequent in dry woods of the northern counties; rare within 



our limits and confined to the Middle district. 



PI. — Late May to late June. 



Middle District. — Little Timber Creek (C), Atco, Swedesboro. 



Asclepias lanceolata Walt. Smooth Orange Milkweed. 



PI. CIX, Fig. 2. 



Asclepias lanceolata Walter, Fl. Car. 105. 1788 [Carolina].— Britton 170. — 



Keller and Brown 260. 

 Asclepias paupercula Knieskern 25. — Willis 50. 



Found only along the Coast strip, where the salt meadows 

 join the mainland; somewhat locally distributed and not detected 

 north of Pt. Pleasant, which is, therefore, the most northern 

 station for the species, as it does not range north of New Jersey. 



This is one of the finest of our milkweeds. Its flowers are 

 larger than those of any other species and the brilliant red and 

 orange coloring makes it especially conspicuous among the many 

 showy flowers of the marsh edge. Its slender, glabrous foliage, 

 too, gives it a delicacy that is missing in the coarse-leaved species. 

 Though said in the books to be a plant of "wet pine barrens," 

 it is, so far as New Jersey is concerned, strictly confined to the 

 edge of the salt marshes, where they join the upland. 



Fl. — Late June to late July. 



Coast Strip.— Ft. Pleasant, Forked River (KB), Manahawkin, West Creek, 

 C. M. Court House, 0pp. Anglesea (C), Bennett, Cold Spring, Cape May. 



