646 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Apocynum medium Greene. Small-flowered Dogbane. 



Apocynum medium Greene, Pittonia III. 229. 1897 [Brookland, D. C.]. 



Tolerably common in the Pine Barrens and probably elsewhere 

 in cultivated ground or on roadsides ; very variable and includ- 

 ing A. milleri Britton and A. urceolifer G. S. Miller. 



The Speedwell specimen has the leaves pubescent on both 

 sides, the others only below. 



Pi. — Early June to early August, occasionally later. 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River, Chatsworth, Harris, Speedwell. 



Apocynum cannabinum L. Indian Hemp. 



Apocynum cannabinum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 213. 1753 [Canada and Virginia]. — 

 Knieskern 25. — Britton 168. 



Apparently frequent throughout the State in one form or 

 another, usually appearing as a weed within our limits, but 

 perhaps still in its native habitat along the Coast Strip. 



In all the specimens here listed the inflorescence is glabrous ; 

 some have the leaves all tomientous below, others have most of 

 them entirely glabrous. 



Fl. — Early June to late August, occasionally later. 



Middle District. — Medford (S), New Eg>-pt, Westville, Swedesboro, Mickle- 

 ton, Landisville. 



Coast Strip.— Smi City (L), Atlantic City, Wildwood. 



Apocynum cannabinum pubescens R. Br. Pubescent Indian Hemp. 



Apocynum pubescens R. Brown, Mem. Wern. Soc. Nat. Hist., p. 68. 181 1 

 [Virginia]. 



Occasional in the Pine Barrens and probably elsewhere. A 

 form with velvety pubescence on the inflorescence and both sides 

 of the leaves. 



Fl. — As in the preceding. 

 Pine Barrens. — Winslow Jnc, Landisville, Egg Harbor Citj-. 



Family ASCLEPIADACE.^. Milkweeds. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Corolla crown of five hooded, fleshy bodies, with an incurved horn rising 

 from the cavity of each hood. 



b. Leaves hirsute pubescent, mainly alternate, corolla and hood both 

 orange. Asclepias tuber osa, p. 647 



bb. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, verticillate. 



