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served no specimen, he does not see how he could have mistaken 

 anything- else for it He was visiting" the station for Chionantlvus 

 and found the Dierjilla growing with it. The plant is frequent 

 in the northern counties, but this is our only evidence of its 

 occurrence on the coastal plain. 



Order VALERIANALES 



Family VALERIANACE^. Valerians. 

 Valerianella radiata (L.). Beaked Corn Salad. 



Valeriana Locusta var. radiata Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 34. 1753 [Maryland]. 



Mr. O. H. Brown assures me that this plant is native about 

 Cape May in sandy woods, associated with Myosotis virginica. 

 It also occurs rarely in the Middle district. 

 Fl. — Late April to early June. 



Middle District. — Washington Park. 

 Cape May. — Cold Spring. 



Order CAWPANULALES. 



Family CUCURBITACE^. Gourds, Melons and Cucumbers. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Leaves z-7 lobed. 



b. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, densely spiny. Micramp elis , p. 713 



hb. Fruits smaller, spiny, 3-10, together in a pedicelled head. 



Sicyos, p. 714 



MICRAMPELIS Rafmesque. 



Micrampelis lobata (Mich.). Wild Balsam Apple. 



Sicyos lobata Michx., Fl. Bor. Am. IL 217. 1803 [W. Penna., on the Ohio 



River]. 

 Micrampelis echinata Britton iii. 



Occasional in the Middle district and rarely on the Cape May 

 peninsula, usually near the Delaware. To some extent escaped 

 from cultivation, possibly entirely so. 



Fl. — Late July to late September. Fr. — Early September into 

 October. 



Middle District. — ^New Egypt, Burlington, Four miles south Swedesboro. 

 Cape May. — Cape May. 



