PLANlTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 347 



Commion in low woods and along streams in the Northern 

 district, but ranch rarer and local within our limits, where it 

 occurs only in the Middle district, being entirely absent from the 

 Pine Barrens and coast. 



Ft. — 'Early ^April to late April. 



Middle District.— New Egypt, Bordentown, Kinkora, Little Timber Creek 

 (C), Merchantville (P), Gloucester (P), Haddonfield (C), Medford (S), 

 Mickleton (H), Swedesboro, AUoway. 



ALETRIS L. 



Aletris farinosa L. Colic Root. 



Aletris farinosa Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 319. 1753 [Pennsylvania].— Knieskern 31.— 



Willis 63. — Britton 237. 

 Aletris aurea Britton 237.— Rusby, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club VL 289. 1879.— ? 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. L 225. 1814.— Willis 63. 



Casually in the northern counties in sandy ,glround and comv- 

 mon throughout our limits. 



There is a form of this plant with shorter leaves and shorter, 

 more nearly spherical, floweirs found especially near the "plains," 

 but the differences do' not seemi sufficiently well marked or con- 

 stant to warrant separation. While certainly not A. aurea, 

 this plant seems tO' haive been the basis for the inclusion of that 

 species in Britton's Catalogue; the Rusby plant referred to was 

 in fruit and its identity was not clearly determined. Pursh, who 

 reported A\. aurea fromi New' Jersey, may have had the same 

 form in mind. 



Fl. — Mid-June to late July. 



Middle District.— M3.ttevi3.r\ (NY), Pt. Pleasant, Farmingdale, Paulsboro, 

 Lindenwold (S), Lawnside (S), Sicklerville (S), Swedesboro, Elmer (P). 



Pine Barrens.— AWaive (S), Speedwell (S), E. Plains (S), near Atsion 

 (C), Jackson (P), Williamstown Jnc, Winslow Jnc, Pancoast (S). 



Coast St?-ip. — Spray Beach (L), Manahawkin, Stone Harbor. 



Cape May.— Cold Spring, Bennett (S). 



Family CONVALLARIACE^. Solomon's Seal, etc. 



Differ from the Lilies in having simple or branched root 

 stalks — not bulbs ; and in having fleshy berry-like fruit. Trillium 

 has the perianth clearly divided into sepals (green) and petals 

 (white or pink). 



