758 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Frequent in dry sand)^ ground in the Pine Barrens and locally 

 in the Middle and Cape May districts. 

 Fl. — Late August to early October. 



Middle District.— ^mWngton, Southburg (C), Medford, Ashland, Linden- 

 wold, Mickleton (C), Jericho (C), W. Deptford. 



Pine Barrens. — Prospertown, Manchester (NB), Whitings (vS), Stafford- 

 ville. Speedwell (S), Jones Mill (S), Atsion, Clementon, Albion, Cedar 

 Brook, Atco, Berlin, Malaga (S), Taunton (S), Landisville, Quaker Bridge 

 (S), Hanimonton, Batsto (P), Mays Landing, Elwood (P). 



Cape il/a/y.— Cape May (S). 



Aster spectabilis Ait. Showy Aster. 



Aster spectabilis Alton, Hort. Kew. IIL 209. 1789 [North America]. — Nut- 

 tall, Gen. IL 157. 1818.— Barton, Fl. Phila. IL 117. 1818.— Knieskern 

 17. — Willis 30. — Britton 137. — Keller and Brown 330. 



Aster siirciilosus Britton 137. — Keller and Brown 330. — Robinson and Fernald^ 

 Rhodora 1909. 58. 



Common in dry saiidy ground in the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May peninsula, and locally in the Middle district, occurring at 

 only three stations north of our limits in Morris, Mercer and 

 Middlesex Counties. 



The most showy Aster of our region, with flower heads often 

 35 mm. in diameter. 



Robinson and Fernald have disposed of the original New 

 Jersey record of Aster surculosus by showing that it was based 

 upon a specimen of A. spectabilis, and all specimens of alleged 

 surculosus that I have examined prove to be the same thing. 



Fl. — Late July to late September. 



Middle District.— Mediord, Ashland, Haddonfield, Westmont (S), Wood- 

 bury (P), Mickleton. 



Pine Barrens. — Asbury Park (NB). Deal, Briiidletown, Brown's Mills 

 (P), Forked River, Pasadena, Manchester (NB), Bamber. Whitings, Speed- 

 well, Chatsworth, Taunton (S), Jackson, Clementon. Bear Swamp (S), Al- 

 bion, Pen Bryn (S), Atco, Winslow (S), Landisville, Newfield, Hammon- 

 ton, Quaker Bridge (P), Pleasant Mills, Folsom, Egg Harbor City, Dennis- 

 ville. 



Cape May.— Cold Spring (OHB). 



Aster gracilis Nutt. Slender Aster. 



Aster gracilis Nuttall, Gen. IL 158. 1818 [Kentucky and Tennessee].— Brit- 

 ton 137. — Keller and Brown 330. 



