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the region. Its dense spike of lilac blossoms, with their bright, 

 blue stamens, is quite conspicuous in the still brown bogs. It 

 begins to bloom when the spike is almost sessile in the center 

 of the rosette of narrow spatulate leaves, but the scape lengthens 

 rapidly and is a foot tall at the height of the flowering season. 

 Fl. — Early April to mid-May. 



Middle Du/nci.— Freehold (C)( New Egypt, Haddonfield (KB), Medford, 

 Westville, Gloucester (KB), Red Bank, Washington Park, Woodbury, Clarks- 

 boro, Laurel Springs, Wenonah (KB), Sicklerville (S), Glassboro, Dare- 

 town (KB), Berkley (KB). 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (NB), Bamber, 3 miles east New Egypt, Bar- 

 negat, Bear Swamp, Lucaston (KB), Atco (N), Berlin (KB), Clementon, 

 Sumner (S), Jackson, Union Hall, Cedar Brook (KB), Newfield (T), Mill- 

 ville, Hammonton (NB), Collier's Mills (C). 



Cape May.— Court House (S), Dias Creek, Cold Spring, Cape May Pt. (S). 



CHAM/ELIRIUM Willdenow. 



Chamselirium luteum (L.). Blazing Star. 



Veratrum luteum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1044. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Chamaelirium luteum Willis 64. — Britton 243. — Keller, and Brown 98. 



Woods in the Northern Counties occasional; and very rare 

 in the upper Middle district. 



Through a curious misconception Dr. Britton states that this 

 plant is frequent in the southern counties, and Keller and Brown, 

 influenced no doubt by this, give it as frequent in New Jersey. 

 As a matter of fact, none of our local botanists have ever col- 

 lected it oni the New Jersey side of the Delaware in South Jersey, 

 and I have seen only two specimens from within the limits of 

 this list. 



Fl. — I^ate May to mid- June. 



Middle District. — Burlington, Mickleton (H). 



CHROSPERMA Rafinesque. 



Chrosperma muscsetoxicum (Walt.). Fly-poison. 



Melanthium musceetoxicum Walter, Fl. Car. 125. 1788 [Probably Santee 



R., S. C.]. 

 Amianthium musccstoxicum Willis, 64. — Gray Man. Ed. I. soi- — Britton 246. 



Low sandy ground, locally in the Middle district and occasional 

 in the Pine Barrens. 

 Pi. — ^Early June to late June. 



