PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 319 



"Diffenbaugh," given in Dr. Britton's Catalogue. We have been 

 unable to verify this record or to locate the original specimens. 



WOLFFIA Horkel. 



Wolffia Columbiana Karst. Columbian Wolffia. 



iWolffia Columbiana Karsten, Bot. Unters I. 103. 1865-67 [no locality given]. 

 Willis 59. — Britton 255. — Keller and Brown 90. 



Middle district, extending to Bergen County. 

 The little green discs of the Duckweed, Avith their slender 

 ■rootlets hanging beneath, reproducing by branching and separa- 

 tion from the parent disc and rarely found blossoming, seem far 

 •enough removed from our conception of a flowering plant, but 

 the still more minute Wolffia is the extreme in this direction. 

 The plants consist of minute green globules about a millimeter in 

 •diameter, which float just below' the surface of the water. 



Middle District. — Fish House, Kaighns Pt. (C), Bridgeport, Pedricktown 

 .(H), Jumbo (H). 



Order XYRI DALES. 



Monocotyledenous herbs, flowers usually regular, parts in 3'3 

 ■or 6's. Ovary compound, superior. Endosperm of seed mealy. 



Family XYRIDACE^. Yellow-eyed Grasses. 



Characteristic plants of the Pine Barren district. Three of the 

 six species occur sporadically in the Middle and Cape May dis- 

 tricts, and one other is restricted to the latter. 



The yellow flowers are quite showy, but only last a short time. 



XYRIS L. 



Key to the Species. 



■a. Base distinctly bulbous thickened. 



b. Lateral sepals projecting beyond the bracts and fringed. 



X. arenicola, p. 322 



bb. Lateral sepals not projecting beyond the bracts and not fringed. 



Bracts tightly imbricated even when ripe, uniform chestnut, heads 



nearly spherical. ^- *<"'*''. P- 320 



•aa. Base not bulbous thickened. 



b. Lateral sepals projecting beyond the bracts. Plants large, 6-9 dm. 

 high, leaves 20 mm. broad. 



