PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 753 



Coast Strip. — Barnegat, Cox's, Surf City (L), Ship Bottom (L), Barne- 

 gat City (L), Spray Beach (L), Atlantic City (S), Avalon, Wildwood. 

 Cape May. — Bennett, Cold Spring (S), Cape May. 



BOLTON I A L'Heritier. 



Boltonia asteroides (L.). Aster-like Boltonia. 



Matricaria asteroides Linnaeus, Mantissa ii6. 1767 [Pennsylvania "Barth- 



ram"]. 

 Boltonia asterioides Long, Torreya 1908, 16. 



Open swamps in the southwestern part of the Cape May 

 peninsula. First discovered in a swamp west of Bennett by 

 Mr. Bayard Long- July 24, 1907, and later found by the writer 

 near Green Creek. Like many other plants peculiar to the Cape 

 May region, it pushes up the Susquehanna Valley into Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Fl. — Mid-August to mid-September. 

 Cape May. — Bennett, Green Creek. 



SERICOCARPUS Nees. 



Sericocarpus linifolius (L.). Narrow-leaved White-top Aster. 



Conysa linifolia Linnaeus Sp. Pi. 861. 1753 [North America]. 

 Aster Solidaginoides Barton, Fl. Phila. IL 109. 1818. 

 Seriocarpus solidagineus Knieskern 17. — Willis 30. 

 Sericocarpus linifolius Britton 136. — Keller and Brown 326. 



Frequent in dry sandy woods of the Pine Biarrens, also occa- 

 sional in similar situations in the Cape May and Coast districts, 

 and locally in the Middle district, ranging- north of our limits 

 to a few stations in Bergen, Middlesex, Hunterdon and Mercer 

 Counties. 



Fl. — Mid- June to mid-August. 



Middle District. — Shark River, Farmingdale (S), Mickleton (C). 



Pine Barrens. — Brindletown, Bamber, Manahawkin, Chatsworth, Speedwell 

 (S), Atsion, Cedar Brook, Inskip, Folsom, Landisville, Richland (NB), 

 Hammonton (C), Egg Harbor City, Tuckahoe (S). 



Coast Strip. — Anglesea. 



Cape May. — Fishing Creek. 



Sericocarpus asteroides (L.). White-top Aster. 



Conyza Asteroides Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 861. 1753 [North America]. 

 Aster conyzoides Barton, Fl. Phila. IL 109. 1818. 

 Aster conyzoides var. plantaginifolius Nuttall Gen. IL 158. 1818. 

 Sericocarpus conyzoides, Knieskern 17. 

 Sericocarpus asteroides Britton 326. 

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