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The purple flowers of this species are very conspicuous, rising 

 above the surface of the water from a mass of floating filiform 

 leaves and bladders. It is the only purple-flowered species in 

 our range, except the very rare V. resupinata. 



Fl. — Mid- July into September. 



Middle District. — Repaupo, Swedesboro, Franklinville (P). 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River, Brown's Mills (Leeds), Speedwell (S), Jack- 

 son, Malaga (NB), Landisville, Hammonton, Quaker Bridge, Mullica River, 

 Pleasant Mills. 



Cape May. — Nummeytown, Bennett. 



Utricularia vulgaris americana Gray. Greater Bladderwort. 



Utricularia vulgaris var. americana Gray, Man. Ed. V. 318 [America]. 

 Utricularia vulgaris Barton, Fl. Phila. I. 10. 1818. — Britton 191. 



Frequent in ditches and streams of the northern counties and 

 occasional in the Middle and Cape May districts. 

 Fl. — Early June to late August. 



Middle District. — Pt. Pleasant, Bordentown, Gloucester, Kaigns Pt., Center 

 Square, Repaupo, Swedesboro. 

 Cape May. — New England Creek. 



Family OROBANCHACE^. Broom-rapes. 



a. Flowers of two kinds, scattered along slender panicled branches, lower 



cleistogamous and fertile, upper tubular sterile. Leptamnium, p. 695 

 aa. Flowers all alike in a spike or solitarJ^ 



h. Flowers in a thick, scaly brown spike. Conopholis, p. 695 



bb. Flowers yellow-brown or purplish in a loose spike at the summit of 



a pubescent stem. [Orobanche minor']* 



bbb. Flower solitary, white tinged with violet. Thalcsia unitlora, p. 694 



THALESIA Rafinesque. 



Thalcsia uniflora L. One-flowered Broom-rape. 



Orobanche uniflora Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 633. 1753 [Virginia]. 

 Aphyllon uniflorum Knieskern 22. — Britton 190. 



Frequent in woodlands of the northern counties and occasional 

 within our limits in the Middle district only. 

 Fl. — Early May to early June. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, New Egypt, Kinkora, Beverly. 



* Clover Broom-rape. Parasitic on clover roots. 



