PLANiTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 341 



the region. Its dense spike of lilac blossoms, with their bright, 

 blue stamens, is quite conspicuous in the still brown bogs. It 

 begins to bloom when the spike is almost sessile in the center 

 of the rosette of narrow spatulate leaves, but the scape lengthens 

 rapidly and is a foot tall at the height of the flowering season. 

 Fl. — Early April to mid-May. 



Middle District.— Vvttho\6. (C), New Egypt, Haddonfield (KB), Medford, 

 Westvillc, Gloucester (KB), Red Bank, Washington Park, Woodbury, Clarks- 

 boro, Laurel Springs, Wenonah (KB), Sicklerville (S), Glassboro, Dare- 

 town (KB), Berkley (KB). 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (NB), Bamber, 3 miles east New Eg>'pt, Bar- 

 negat, Bear Swamp, Lucaston (KB), Atco (N), Berlin (KB), Clementon, 

 Sumner (S), Jackson, Union Hall, Cedar Brook (KB), Newfield (T), Mill- 

 ville, Hammonton (NB), Collier's Mills (C). 



Cape May. — Court House (S), Dias Creek, Cold Spring, Cape May Pt. (S). 



CHAM/ELI RIUM Willdenow. 



Chamaelirium luteum (L.). Blazing Star. 



Veratrwn luteum Linnaeus. Sp. PI. 1044. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Chamaelirium luteum Willis 64. — Britton 243. — Keller and Brown 98. 



Woods in the Northern Counties occasional; and very rare 

 in the upper Middle district. 



Through a curious misconception Dr. Britton states that this 

 plant is frequent in the southern counties, and Keller and Brown, 

 influenced no' doubt by this, give it as frequent in New Jersey. 

 As a matter of fact, none of our local botanists have ever col- 

 lected it on the New Jersey side of the Delaware in South Jersey, 

 and I have seen only two specimens from within the limits of 

 this list. 



Fl. — Late May to mid-June. 



Middle District.— Enr\mg\.on, Mickleton (H). 



CHROSPERMA Rafinesque. 



Chrosperma muscaetoxicum (Walt.). Fly-poison. 



Melanthium musccctoxicum Walter, Fl. Car. 125. 1788 [Probably Santee 



R., S. C.]. 

 Amianthiiim musccetoxiciim Willis, 64. — Gray Man. Ed. I. 501. — Britton 246. 



Low sandy ground, locally in the Middle district and occasional 

 in the Pine Barrens. 



Fl. — Early June to late June. 



