PLiANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. i8i 



Coast Strip. — Monmouth Beach Center (NB), Manahawkin, Ocean City, 

 Clermont, Cape May Court House, Cape May, Fairton. 



Also four miles north of Egg Harbor City (P), probably an intrusion from 

 the river. 



CCELORACHIS Brongn. 

 Coelorachis rugosa (Nutt.)- Wrinkled Gama Grass. 

 PI. VI., Fig. 2. 

 Rottbcellia rugosa Nuttall, Gen. I. 84. 1818 [Florida]. 

 Manisurus rugosa Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1908, p. 458. 



• This southern species is restricted to the southern part of the 

 Cape May peninsula, w'here it was first detected by Mr. O. H. 

 Brown in August, 1908. 



Fl. — Mid-August to late September. 

 Cape May. — Bennett. 



ERIANTHUS Michaux. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Awns spirally twisted. B. divaricatus, p. 182 



aa. Awns straight. E. saccharoides, p. i8l 



Erianthus saccharoides Michx. Plume Grass. 



PI. XV., fig. 2. 



Erianthus saccharoides Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 55. 1803 [Carolina]. 

 Erianthus alopecuroides Gray Man. Ed. I. 616. 1848. — Willis 77. — Britton 



284. — Keller and Brown 31. 

 Erianthus compactus Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XXH. 419. 1895. 



West Jersey, Cape May County, and rarely in, the Pine Barrens 

 and Coast Strip, local. 



This fine grass, with its ample purplish brown plumes on stalks 

 five feet in height, is one of the handsomest species of the family. 

 It is especially frequent in moist ground along the coast of Cape 

 May County. 



Fl. — Late August to late September. 



Middle District.— Be\. Burlington (C), Mickleton, Tomlinsons, Griffith's 

 Swp. (P), Swedesboro (NB). 



Pine Barrens. — Cedar Lake, Hammonton, Elwood (P), Egg Harbor City 

 (in part coast intrusions). 



Coast Strip. — Pt. Pleasant (Mck), Palermo. 



Cape May. — Court House, Cold Spring. 



