PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 765 



Middle District. — Burlington, Westville. 



Pine Barrens. — Landisville. 



Coast Strip. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Spring Lake (NB), Seaside Park, 

 Forked River, Waretown, Ship Bottom (L), Cedar Bonnet (L), Absecon, 

 Atlantic City, Ocean City (S), Avalon, Wildwood, Cape May, Dennisville 

 (S), Salem. 



PLUCHEA Cassini. 



Flowering and Fruiting Data. — In all the Inulecc — Pluchea, 

 Antennaria, Anaphalis and Gnaphalium — the season noted in- 

 cludes from the beginning of the flowering period to the time of 

 full maturity, when the heads break up, 



Pluchea foetida (L.). Viscid Marsh Fleabane. 



Baccharis fwtida Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 86i. 1753 [Virginia]. 

 Pluchea fcetida Britton 141. — Keller and Brown 334. 



Rare and confined to the lower part of the Cape May peninsula. 



This southern species was first discovered in the State by Mr. 

 Isaac C. Martindale in the vicinity of Cape May, August 23d, 

 1877, ^^^ subsequently by Mr. C. F. Parker, July 24th, 1880. 

 It was not collected again until August 11, 1909, when Mr. 

 Stewardson Brown, in company with several other members of 

 the Philadelphia Botanical Club, found a considerable patch of 

 it in a meadow along Dias Creek a mile or more from the bay 

 shore. 



Fl. and Fr. — ^Full bloom August 11, 1909. 



Cape May.— Dias Creek, Cape May (NB, CP and P). 



Pluchea camphorata (L.). Salt Marsh Fleabane. 



Erigeron camphorata Linnaeus Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 1212. 1763 [Virginia]. 

 Pluchea camphorata Knieskern 18. — Willis 32. — Britton 141. — Keller and 

 Brown 334. 



Salt marshes along the coast and lower Delaware Bay; 

 common. 



One of the most generally distributed of our maritime plants. 

 Fl. and Fr. — Late August to late October. 



Maritime. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Pt. Pleasant, Island Heights Jnc, 

 Barnegat Pier, Seaside Park, Forked River, Spray Beach (L), Atlantic City, 

 Ocean City, Avalon, Piermont, Wildwood, Cold Spring (S), Cape May, Dias 

 Creek (S), Dennisville (S). 



