PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 759 



Commion in dry sandy woods of the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May peninsula, and occasional in the southern part of the Middle 

 district and the Coast Strip. 



Fl. — Late July to early September. 



Middle District. — Dividing Creek, Bridgeton. 



Pine Barrens. — Forked River (NB), Manahawkin, Bamber, Chatsworth, 

 Winslow Jnc, Waterford, Landisville, Hammonton, Pancoast (NB), Quaker 

 Bridge, Pleasant Mills (P), Egg Harbor City, Tuckaboe (S), Dennisville 

 (S). 



Coast Strip. — Ocean City (S). 



Cape May. — Court House, Bennett. 



Aster radula Ait. Low Rough Aster. 



Aster Radula Aiton, Hort. Kew. HI. 210. 1789 [Nova Scotia]. — Willis 30. — 

 Britton 136. — Keller and Brown 330. 



Bogs of the Middle district, rare ; also one record for the edge 

 of the Pine Barrens and one for Morris County. 

 Fl. — Early August to early September. 



Middle District.— Souilihmg (C), Bricksburg (NB), Merchantville (P), 

 Griffith's Swamp, Mickleton (BH), Swedesboro (CDL).* 



Aster nemoralis Ait. Bog Aster. 



Aster nemoralis Aiton, Hort. Kew. HI. 198. 1789 [Nova Scotia]. — Knies- 

 kern 17. — Willis 31. — Britton 139. — Keller and Brown 330. 



Frequent in Cedar Swamps of the Pine Barrens reaching here 

 the southern limit of its distribution. 



This is distinctly the Aster of the Cedar Swamps and cold 

 bogs, where most of the other stragglers from the north find 

 congenial surroundings. It does not range farther south than 

 the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and Absecon seems to be our 

 southernmost record, although it no doubt extends farther, cer- 

 tainly to Mays Landing.f 



Fl. — Mid-August to late September. 



* Mr. U. C. Smith's record in Keller and Brown's list for Egg Harbor City 

 cannot be verified, and is, without much doubt, due to a misidentification, in- 

 asmuch as a number of his specimens of this genus are wrongly named. 



t The record for Swedesboro (KB) should have been Atco according to 

 Mr. Lippincott's herbarium. 



Nuttall (Gen II. 155) records Aster paludosus "from Cape May County, 

 New Jersey, to Florida on the margins of open swamps," but there is nothing 

 to substantiate the record. 



