PLANlTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 347 



•ComTnon in low woods and along streams in the Northern 

 district, but much rarer and local within our limits, where it 

 occurs only in the Middle district, being entirely absent from the 

 Pine Barrens and coast. 



Fl. — ^Early April to late April. 



Middle District.— ^ew Egypt, Bordentown, Kinkora, Little Timber Creek 

 (C), Merchantville (P), Gloucester (P), Haddonfield (C), Medford (S), 

 Mickleton (H), Swedesboro, Alloway. 



ALETRIS L. 

 Aletris farinosa L. Colic Root. 



Aletris farinosa Linnxus, Sp. PL 319. 1/53 [Pennsylvania]. — Knieskern 31. — 



Willis 62,. — Britton 237. 

 Aletris aurea Britton 237.— Rusby, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club VI. 289. 1879.— ? 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. I. 225. 1814.— Willis 63. 



Casually in the northern counties in sandy ground and comi- 

 mon throughout our limits. 



There is a form of this plant with shorter leaves and shorter, 

 more nearly spherical, flowers found especially near the "plains," 

 but the differences do not seem sufficiently well marked or con- 

 stant to warrant separation. While certainly not A. aurea, 

 this plant seems to have been the basis for the inclusion of that 

 species in Britton's Catalogue; the Rusby plant referred to was 

 in fruit and its identity was not clearly determined. Pursh, who 

 reported A. aurea from New^ Jersey, may have had the same 

 form in mind. 



Fl. — Mid-June to^ late July. 



Middle District. — Mattewan (NY), Pt. Pleasant, Farmingdale, Paulsboro, 

 Lindenwold (S), Lawnside (S), Sicklerville (S), Swedesboro, Elmer (P). 



Pine Barrens. — Allaire (S), Speedwell (S), E. Plains (S), near Atsion 

 (C), Jackson (P), Williamstown Jnc, Winslow Jnc, Pancoast (S). 



Coast Strip. — Spray Beach (L), Manahawkin, Stone Harbor. 



Cape May. — Cold Spring, Bennett (S). 



Family CONVALLARIACE^. Solomon's Seal, etc. 



Differ from the Lilies in having simple or branched root 

 stalks — not bulbs ; and in having fleshy berry-like fruit. Trillium 

 has the perianth clearly divided into sepals (green) and petals 

 (white or pink). 



