PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 473 



This shrub, which ranges no farther north than New Jersey, 

 resembles Leucothoe to some extent in general appearance, but the 

 petals are separate and the racemes terminal and not secund. 



Fl. — ^Early June to late June. Fr. — About September, persist- 

 ing over winter. 



Middle District. — Pemberton (C), Medford, Kaighns Pt., Repaupo, Bridge- 

 port (H), Glassboro (S), Salem (S), Elmer (P), Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (Kn), Toms River (Bassett), Two miles south 

 New Egypt, Middletown, Speedwell, White Horse, Atsion, Quaker Bridge, 

 Clementon, Berlin, Williamstown Jnc, Sicklerville, Andrews, Cedar Brook, 

 Inskip, Pleasant Mills, Folsom, Hammonton, Malaga (UP), Mays Landing, 

 Egg Harbor City (P), Dennisville (P). 



Cape May.— Goshen (OHB), Dias Creek. 



Family GROSSULARIACE^. Gooseberries and Currants. 



RIBES L. 



Ribes rotundifolium Michx. Wild Gooseberry. 



Ribcs rotundifolium Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. no. 1803 [High Mountains 

 of Carolina]. — Britton 103. 



Frequent or common in rocky woods of the northern counties ; 

 reported once within our limits at Seabright (Britton), perhaps 

 an escape. 



Family HAMAMELIDACE^. Witch Hazel, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Leaves oval or obovate, repand dentate, flowers with long, twisted, yellow 

 petals, blooming in autumn. Hamamclis virginiana, p. 473 



aa. Leaves star-like, with five acute lobes, flowers inconspicuous in a cluster, 

 blooming in spring, fruit a prickly, long pedicelled ball. 



Liquidambar styraciHua, p. 474 



HAMAMELIS L. 



Hamamelis virginiana L. Witch Hazel. 



PI. XCHL, Fig. I. 



Hamamelis virginiana Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 124. 1753 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 15. 

 — Britton 104. 



Frequent in damp woods of the northern counties and less 

 abundant southward in the Middle and Coast districts. 



Fl. — Early October to late November or into December, as the 

 leaves are falling. Fr. — Early autumn of the second season. 



