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LYCOPUS L. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Calyx-teeth ovate, scarcely acute, shorter than the mature nutlets. 

 b. Leaves mostly ovate, often purple, base of stem not tuberous. 



Lye opus virginicus, p. 672 

 bb. Leaves mostly lanceolate to oblong, base of stem tuberous. 



L. uniflorus, p. 672 

 aa. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, subulate or very acute, larger than the nutlets. 



b. Leaves deeply incised or pinnatified. L. americanns, p. 673 



bb. Leaves merely serrate. 



c. Leaves sessile. L. sessilifoliiis, p. 672 



cc. Leaves narrowed into a manifest petiole. L. rubellns, p. 67^ 



Lycopus virginicus L. Purple Water Hoarhound or Bugle-weed. 



Lycopus virginicus Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 21. 1753 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 23. — 

 Britton 196. 



Moist ground ; frequent in the Northern and Middle districts. 

 Fl. — Late July into September. 



Middle District. — Long Branch, New Egypt, Medford (S), Oaklyn (S), 

 Lawnside (S), Salem. 

 Pine Barrens. — Landisville (T), Atsion (S). 



Lycopus uniflorus Michx. Common Water Hoarhound. 



Lycopus uniflorus Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. 14. 1803 [Lakes, St. John and 

 Mistassini, Canada]. 



Moist ground; frequent in the Northern and Coast districts; 

 apparently rare in the Middle district at least within our limits. 

 Fl. — Late July into September. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Clementon. 



Coast Strip. — Cox's, Manahawkin, Barnegat City (L), Ship Bottom (L), 

 Holgate's (L), Sherburn's (L). 



Lycopus sessilifoiius Gray. Sessile-leaved Water Hoarhound. 



Lycopus europccus var. sessilifoiius Gray, Man. Ed. 5. 345. 1867 [Atsion 

 Creek, N. J.] — WilHs 44. — Britton 196. — Keller and Brown 280. 



Common in the Pine Barrens and frequent elsewhere through- 

 out our region, but apparently not recorded in the State north 

 of our limits. 



This is the typical Hoarhound of the Pine Barrens common 

 about the Cranberry bogs and other wet spots, always with 

 abundantly-developed stolons. The type specimen was collected 



