PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 499 



Middle District.— Kaighns Pt. (C), Center Square (KB), Bridgeport (H), 

 Swedesboro, Salem (NB). 



STYLOSANTHES Swartz. 



Stylosanthes biflora (L.). Pencil-flower. 



PI. LXVIII., Fig. 2. 



Trifolium biflora Linnaeus Sp. PI. 773. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Stylosanthes elatior Barton Fl. Phila. II. 75. 1818. — Britton 84. 



Open sandy ground, edges of woods, etc. ; occasional in the 

 northern counties, but most cormmDn on the coastal plain, espe- 

 cially in the Middle district, though it occurs also in the Pine 

 Barrens and Cape May peninsula. 



Fl. — ^Mid-June to mid-September. Fr. — Early August to 

 early October. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, Prospertown, Burlington, Florence Heights, 

 Riverton, Poke Hill (NB), Camden, Woodbury, Lindenwold, Swedesboro, 

 Mickleton (NB), Husted (S), Fairton (S). 



Pine Barrens. — Berlin, Quaker Bridge (S), Newtonville, Egg Harbor City, 

 Mays Landing (S), Tuckahoe (S). 



Cape May. — Cold Spring. 



MEIBOMIA Adanson. 



a. Pod not indented along the upper edge, but deeply constricted or notched 

 from the lower edge; raised on a slender pedicel from the calyx. 

 b. Flower panicle arising independently from the base of the plant. 



Meibomia nudiflora, p. 500 

 bb- Flower panicle terminal. 



c. Leaves crowded at its base. M. grandiflora, p. 500 



cc. Leaves scattered along the stem. M. paiiciflora, p. 501 



ca. Pod constricted on both margins, more deeply below. 



b. Plant trailing, leaflets orbicular. M. michauxii, p. 501 



bb. Plant not trailing. 



c. Leaves sessile or nearly so, leaflets linear or lanceolate, 20-80 mm. 

 long. M. sessilifolia, p. 501 



cc. Leaves petioled. 



d. Leaflets narrowly linear. M. stricta, p. 501 



dd. Leaflets broader. 



e. Joints of the pods decidedly longer than broad. 

 f. Leaflets obtuse, rough, yellowish green. 



M. canescens, p. 502 

 ff. Leaflets acuminate, glabrous, glaucous beneath. 



M. bracteosa, p. 502 

 ee. Joints but little longer than broad. 



f. Pod distinctly raised in the calyx on a short stalk. 



