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Polygala sanguinea Nuttall Gen. II. 88. 1818. — Barton Fl. Phila. II. 70. — 

 Willis 17. 



Open swaml^y ground or wet sandy places ; common throug'h- 

 out our district and in that portion of the country to the north 

 that lies in the Middle district. Apparently does not extend 

 north of the coastal plain. 'Most plentiful in the Pine Barrens. 



This is our commionest small Polygala, and as universally 

 distributed through the Pine Barrens as P. lutea. Nuttall, who 

 discovered it and was clearly aware of its distinctness, mistook 

 it for the P. sanguinea of Linnaeus, which was merely the pink 

 form of P. viridcsccns, so Torrey and Gray fittingly honored 

 the memory of the discoverer by naming it after him'. Few 

 botanists were better acquainted with the Pine Barren flora than 

 Thomias Nuttall, and it is well to have his namie associated with 

 it in this plant, Lobelia Nuttallii, etc. His type specimens, with 

 their small, closely-written labels, and all new species marked 

 with a star, are still preserved in the herbarium of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy, where he worked for many years. 



Fl. — Early July to mid-October. 



Middle District. — Shark River, Farmingdale, Medford, Lindenwold, Sickler- 

 ville (S), Mickleton, Swedesboro, Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — Allaire, Forked River, Whitings, Bear Swamp (S), Brad- 

 docks Mill, Taunton, Speedwell (S), Clementon, Williamstown Jnc, Landis- 

 ville, Hammonton (S), Pleasant Mills, Pancoast, Absecon (S), Egg Harbor 

 City, Woodbine, Belleplain (S), "Pine Cottage." 



Coast Strip. — Long Branch (C), Spring Lake (NB), Pt. Pleasant, Beach 

 Haven (L), Anglesea. 



Cape May. — Court House, Green Creek (S), Dias Creek (S), Whitesboro. 



Polygala senega L. Seneca Snake-root. 



Polygala Senega Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 704. 1753 [Virginia, Pennsylvania and 

 Maryland]. — Britton 59. 



Probably extinct. Fonrxrly occured in New Jersey in the 

 vicinity of New York City, according to Torrey, and at Griffith's 

 Swamp, [==Lawnside] Camden County, according to Charles E. 

 Smith (Britton's Catalogue). 



Polygala polygama Walt. Racemed Milkwort. 



PI. LXXV., Fig. 2. 



Polygala polygama Walter, FL Car. 179. 1788 [S. Carolina].— Knieskern 12. 

 — Britton 60. — Keller and Brown 211. 



