PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 715 



Frequent in swamps of the northern counties, becoming much 

 less common southward in the Middle district, and rare and local 

 in the Cape May peninsula. 



Fl. — Late June to late August. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Pemberton Jnc, Hartford, Camden (P), 

 Pitman, Swedesboro. 

 Cape Ma3;.— Cold Spring (S). 



SPECULARIA Heist. 



Specularia perfoliata (L.). Venus' Looking-glass. 



Campanula perfoliata Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 169. 1753 [Virginia]. 

 Specularia perfoliata Knieskern 20. — Britton 157. 



Dry open ground throughout the State. Occurs in the Pine 

 Barrens only as a weed in cultivated ground, and the same may 

 be said of many other localities, so that its native habitat in the 

 State is difficult to determine. 



Conspicuous Fl. — Early June to early July. 



Middle District.— New Egypt, Locust Grove (S), Medford (S), Westville, 

 Washington Park, Swedesboro, Yorktown (S), Millville (S). 

 Pine Barrens. — Landisville, Mays Landing. 

 Coast Strip. — Spray Beach (L), Peahala (L). 



LOBELIA L. 



Lobelia cardinalis L. Cardinal Flower. 



PI. CXIX., Fig. I. 



Looelia Cardinalis Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 930. 1753 [Virginia]. — Knieskern 19. — 

 Britton 156. 



Wet grounds; frequent, except in the Pine Barrens, although 

 it follows up the larger streams nearly or quite to the head of 

 tide-water, as at Mays Landing. 



This is one of the most brilliant flowers of the late summer 

 swamps of North and West Jersey, its scarlet spike standing out 

 in contrast to the dark green of the surrounding foliage. Along 

 the coast it seems to reach its highest development. Sometimes 

 it covers considerable areas of open wet swamps, where it is only 

 two or three feet high, while elsewhere, as along the Bay shore 

 of Cape May, it occurs in thickets and overgrown swamps, reach- 

 ing a height of six or seven feet. Near Green Creek I found a 

 plant with pale salmon pink flowers. 



Fl. — Late July to mid-September. 



