696 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Also possibly native along the Dela\Yare to Camden and on 

 the coast to Ft. Pleasant. Farther north it is certainly an escape. 

 Barton records it from "a watery thicket three miles below 

 Kaighns Point." 



This gorgeous climber is so familiar in cultivation that one 

 does not realize that it is wild when he first comes upon it in its 

 native habitat. It is a familiar sight in lower Cape May, climb- 

 ing over dead trees and fence posts, its clusters of big red blos- 

 soms almost constantly haunted by the Ruby-throated Humming 

 birds seeking honey from their long tubes. 



Fl. — Mid-July to mid-August, sporadically later. 



Middle District. — Pt. Pleasant (KB), Delair, Cooper's Ferry, Pea Shore 

 (P), Westville (KB), Washington Park (KB), Swedesboro (CDL), Riddle- 

 ton (KB), Haleyville (NB), Salem (S). 



Cape May. — Nummeytown (S), Dias Creek, Cape May, Cape May Pt. 



Coast Strip. — Beesley's Pt. (S), Piermont, Anglesea (UP). 



Family ACANTHACE^. Acanthus, etc. 



a. Flowers large (35-50 mm.), funnel form, pale blue, axillary. Plant hairy, 

 3-6 dm. high, with oval leaves. Ruellia, p. 696 



aa. Flowers small (10-12 mm.) in axillary clusters or single, purplish. Plant 

 glabrous, 3-9 dm. high, with linear lanceolate, entire leaves. 



Dianthera, p. 697 

 RUELLIA L. 



Ruellia ciliosa Pursh. Hairy Ruellia. 



PI. cxv. 



Ruellia ciliosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 420. 1814 [Savannah, Ga.]. — Britton 193. 

 — Keller and Brown 297. 



Lower Cape May peninsula; locally common in thickets along 

 the edge of the salt marshes. 



This fine plant was first discovered in the State by Mr. Isaac 

 Burk* east of Cape May Court House and proved later to be of 

 regular occurrence along the Coastal strip from there to Cold 

 Spring. 



The Ruellias seem to be in need of careful study and revision. 

 The New Jersey plant is quite different from the southern sessile- 

 leaved species, called R. ciliosa in some herbaria. The leaves are 

 short petioled, and calyx lobes filiform, strongly ciliate. It is 



* 1816-1893. A zealous collector of the flora of southern New Jersey, and 

 during the last years of his life engaged in mounting the collection at the 

 Philadelphia Academy. 



