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Fl. — February, or more rarely January (depending upon the 

 openness of the winter and the individual habitat) to late March. 



Middle District. — Shark River, Farmingdale, Allaire, Pt. Pleasant, Borden- 

 town, Delanco, Delaire, Merchantville, Morristown, Camden (Bassett), 

 Medford (S), Lawnside (S), Woodbury, Sumner, Glassboro, Mickleton (H), 

 Yorktown, Sharpstown, Alloway. 



Cape May.— Court House, Dias Creek (S), Cold Spring. 



ORONTIUM L. 



Orontium aquaticum L. Golden Club. 



Orontium aquaticum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 324. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. — 

 Barton, Fl. Phila. I. 169. 1818. — Knieskern 30. — Willis 59. — Britton 253. 

 — Keller and Brown 89. 



Bogs and ponds locally in the Northern and Middle districts, 

 plentiful in the Pine Barrens; casual in the Cape May peninsula. 



The Golden Club is one of the attractions of the Pine Barrens 

 in springtime, when the surface of the pools bristle with its 

 brilliant, slender, orange-yellow spikes bordered below with white 

 where they join the green stalks, and later we find the floating 

 leaves with their peculiar velvety upper surface from: which the 

 water rolls ofif as from: the proverbial duck's back. 



Fl. — Early April to late May. 



Middle Du^nV/.— Delaire, Camden (P), Repaupo (H), Alloway, Wood- 

 bury (P). 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (NB), Barnegat, Speedwell (S), Two miles 

 north of Speedwell, Chatsworth, Bear Swamp (S), Albion, Landisville, 

 Pleasant Mills, Forks of Batsto, Folsom, Pancoast. 



Cape May.— West of Court House, Cold Spring (OHB). 



ACORUS L. 



Acorus calamus L. Calamus. 



Acorus calamus Linnreus, Sp. PI. 324. 1753 [Europe]. — Knieskern 30. — 

 Willis 59. — Britton 254. 



Swamps and wet meadows, frequent in the Northern and Mid- 

 dle districts. Apparently rare elsewhere and perhaps introduced. 

 Fl. — Early May to early July. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Delaire, Kinkora, Medford (S), Gibbsboro 

 (S), Aura (S), Camden (P), Mitkleton (H). 

 Pine Barrens. — Pleasant Mills (T), Hammonton (Bassett). 

 Coast Strip. — Beach Haven Terrace (L). 

 Cape May.— Cold Spring (OHB). 



