454 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Middle District. — Pt. Pleasant (C), New Egypt, Bordentown, Birmingham, 

 Pemberton (NB), Pensauken (S), Haddonfield (C), Woodbury (C), Littlt 

 Timber Creek (P), five mi. S. Mickleton, Mannington. 



SYNDESMON Hoffmansegg. 



Syndesmon thalictroides (L.)- Rue Anemone. 



Anemone Thalictroides Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 542. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Thalictrum anemonoides Knieskern 5. 

 Anemonclla thalictroides Britton 34. 



CommDH in woods of the northern counties, becoming scarce 

 and local southward in the Middle district. 



PI. — ^Mid-Af>ril to mid-Miay. Fr. — MidnMay to mid-June. 



Middle District. — ^New Egypt, Kinkora, Camden (CP), Moorestown (C), 

 Gloucester, Sewell (S), Swedesboro, Quinton, Marlboro (C), Bridgeton (NB). 

 Also a record for "Mays Landing, Dr. Peters," quoted in Britton's catalogue, 

 probably from the edge of the river below the dam in the inward extension oi 

 the coast strip. Several other Middle District plants occur here which are not 

 known on the coast strip proper, and are completely cut off from their range 

 to the west by the Pine Barrens (c. f. Pinus virginiana). 



CLEMATIS L.* 



Clematis virginiana L. Virgin's Bower. 



Clematis virginiana Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad. IV. 275. 1759 [Pennsylvania]. 

 — Knieskern 5. Britton 33. 



Thickets along* streams; cominion in the northern counties and 

 less commonly southward in the Middle district to Ca[>e May. 



Fl. — Late July to late August. Fr. — Early September to early 

 October. 



Middle District.— Sh^ivk River (Kn), Squan (Kn), Pt. Pleasant (S), New 

 Egypt, Birmingham, Pemberton (C), Cookstown (C), Wrightstown (C), 

 Medford (S), Camden (P), Mantua, Mullica Hill (C), Mickleton (NY), 

 Washington Park, Kirkwood (C), Swedesboro, Salem (C). 



Cape Moy.— New England (OHB). 



RANUNCULUS L. 



Ranunculus delphinifoiius Torr. Yellow Water Crowfoot. 



Ranunculus delphinifoiius Torrey, in Eaton's Man. Ed. IL 395. 1818 [Upper 



Louisiana]. — Keller and Brown 151. 

 Ranunculus multifidus Britton 36. 



* Atragene is reported in Keller and Brown's list from "Pt. Pleasant," on 

 authority of Dr. J. Stokes. Dr. Stokes, however, informs me that Pt. 

 Pleasant, Pa., was intended, the plant growing on the New Jersey side of the 

 Delaware. 



