PLANTS OF SDUTHERNi NEW JERSEY. 511 



Fl. — Early July to mid-Aug-ust. Fr. — Early September to 

 mid-October. 



Middle District. — Swedesboro. 

 Coast Strip. — Anglesea. 



CLITORIA L. 



Clitoria mariana L. Butterfly Pea. 



Clitoria mariana Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 753. 1753 [N. America]. — Knieskern 13. 

 — Willis 19. — Britton 89. — Keller and Brown 204. 



Dry sandy ground; confined to the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May districts, except for one station in Hudson Co. Rare and 

 local. 



The earliest record is a specimen in the Torrey Herbarium 

 collected by Gray in 1833 (Britton's Catalogue). In 1888 Dr. 

 Britton stated that it had not recently been collected, there being 

 but two definite localities, Toms River, where Dr. Knieskern had 

 collected it prior to 1856, and Little Snake Hill, Hudson Co., 

 where Mr. W. H. Leggett obtained it in 1871. Since then Mr. 

 Jos. Crawford found it at Hammonton, August 17, 1892. Mr. 

 C. A. Gross collected it near Landisville. Mr. O. H. Brown dis- 

 covered it north of Cape May, and Dr. J. W. Eckfeldt and a 

 party of the Philadelphia Botanical Club collected it above Cape 

 May Court House. 



Fl. — Mid-July to mid-August. Fr. — Mid-August to mid- 

 September. 



Pme Barrens. — Toms River (Kn), Hammonton, Landisville (T). 

 Cape May. — Court House, Cape May (OHB). 



FALCATA Gmelin. 

 Falcata comosa (L.). Wild Pea-nut. 



Glycine comosa Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 754. 1753 [Virginia]. 

 Amphicarpcea comosa Britton 89. 



Common throughout the northern counties and down the Coast 

 strip, occasional in the Middle district. 



Fl. — Late July to early September. Fr. — Mid-September to 

 mid-October. 



Middle District. — Lindenwold. 



Coast Strip. — Manahawkin, North Wildwood (OHB), Anglesea Jnc, Cape 

 May (OHB). 



