PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 355 



Unlike many otlT£r bog- plants, this species is not injured by 

 the cultivation and flooding of the cranberry bogs ; on the con- 

 trary, it increases under these conditions until it becomes a posi- 

 tive weed, and great heaps of the plants, are often tO' be seen 

 stacked up on the dykes after the weeding of the bog. It bears 

 a resemblance to Lophiola, but is not so delicate in color, the 

 wooly covering being always duller and more rusty. 



Fl. — Early July to late August. 



Pine Barrens. — Near New Egypt, Toms River, Forked River, Island Hts. 

 (NY), Manchester (NY), Bamber, Pasadena, West Creek, Tuckerton, 

 Browns Mills, Hanover, Clementon, Jackson (P), Bear Swamp, Ballengers 

 ]\Hlls, Braddock's Mills, Williamstown Jnc, Cedar Brook, Parkdale, Atsion, 

 Quaker Bridge, Batsto, Pleasant Mills, Herman, Hammonton, Hospitality Br. 

 Eighth St., Twelfth St., Mays Landing. 



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



FAMILY AMARYLLIDACE^. Stargrass, etc. 

 Differs fromi the preceding in having- 6 stamens. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Stem leafy, flowers densely wooly. Lophiola, p. 355 



aa. Leaves basal grass-like, flowers not wooly. Hypoxis, p. 355 



HYPOXIS L. 



Hypoxis hirsuta (L.). Stargrass. 



Ornithogalum liirsuttini Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 306. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Hypoxis graminca Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. L 224. 1814. 



Hypoxis erecta Barton, Fl. Phila. L 162. 1818. — Knieskern 31. — ^Willis 62,- 

 Hypoxys Britton 238. 



Frecjuent in sandy ground throughout the State except the 

 coast and Cape May districts (?) 



Fl. — Mid-iMay, and rarely and irreg'ularly through the sum- 

 mer even to September. 



Middle District.—Sh^xrk River, New Egypt, D^elanco, Sewell (S), Linden- 

 wold (S). 



Pi^ne Barrens. — Allaire (S), Plains (S), Manahawkin, Landisville (T), 

 Hammonton (S). 



LOPHIOLA Kerr. 



Lophiola aurea Kerr. Golden-crest. 



PI. XXXIV., Fig. 2. 



Lophiola aurea Kerr, Curtis Bot. Mag. pl. 1596. Nov. i, 1813 [N. America]. 



Conostylis Americana Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. T. 224. 1814 [Pine Barrens of 



New Jersey and Carolina]. — Torrey, Fl. U. S. L 344. 1824. 



