PLAN'TS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 355 



Unlike many other bogf plants, this species is not injured by 

 the cultivation and flooding of the cranberry bogs; on the con- 

 trary, it increases under these conditions until it becomes a posi- 

 tive weed, and great heaps of the plants are often to be seen 

 stacked up on the dykes after the \\^eding of the bog. It bears 

 a resemblance to Lophiola, but is not so delicate in color, the 

 wooly covering being always duller and more rusty. 



Fl. — ^Early July to late August. 



Pine Barrens. — Near New Egypt, Toms River, Forked River, Island Hts. 

 (NY), Manchester (NY), Bamber, Pasadena, West Creek, Tuckerton, 

 Browns Mills, Hanover, Clementon, Jackson (P), Bear Swamp, Ballengers 

 Mills, Braddock's Mills, Williamstown Jnc, Cedar Brook, Parkdale, Atsion, 

 Quaker Bridf^e, Batsto, Pleasant Mills, Herman, Hammonton, Hospitality Br. 

 Eighth St., Twelfth St., Mays Landing. 



Cape il/av.— Court House (S), Bennett (OHB). 



FAMILY AMARYLLIDACE^. 'Sltargrass, etc. 

 Differs from the preceding in having 6 stamens. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Stem leafy, flowers densely wooly. Lophiola^ p. 355 



aa. Leaves basal grass-like, flowers not wooly. Hypo.vis, p. 355 



HYPOXIS L. 



Hypoxis hirsuta (L.). Stargrass. 



Ornithogaltim hirsutum Linnasus, Sp. PI. 306. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Hypoxis graminea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. I. 224. 1814. 



Hypoxis erecta Barton, Fl. Phila. L 162. 1818. — Knieskern 31. — Willis 63. 

 Hypoxys Britton 238. 



Frequent in sandy ground throughout the State except the 

 coast and Cape May districts ( ?) 



PL — ^MidiMay, and rarely and irregularly through the sum- 

 mer even to September. 



Middle District. — Shark River, New Egypt, D'elanco, Sewell (S), Linden- 

 wold (S). 



Pi^ne Barrens. — Allaire (S), Plains (S), Manahawkin, Landisville (T), 

 Hammonton (S). 



LOPHIOLA Kerr. 



Lophiola aurea Kerr. Golden-crest. 



PI. XXXIV., Fig. 2. 

 Lophiola aurea Kerr, Curtis Bot. Mag. pi. 1596. Nov. i, 1813 [N. America]. 

 Conostylis Americana Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. L 224. 1814 [Pine Barrens of 

 New Jersey and Carolina]. — Torrey, Fl. U. S. L 344. 1824. 



