454 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Middle District.— Tt. Pleasant (C), New Egypt, Bordeiitown, Birmingham, 

 Pemberton (NB), Pensauken (S), Haddoniield (C), Woodbury (C), Little 

 Timber Creek (P), five mi. S. Mickleton, Mannington. 



SYNDESMON Hoffmansegg. 



Syndesmon thalictroides (L.). Rue Anemone. 



Anemone Thalictroides Linnseus, Sp. PI. S42. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Thalictrum anemonoides Knieskern 5. 

 Anemonella thalictroides Britton 34. 



Common in woods of the northern counties, becoming scarce 

 and local southward in the Middle district. 



Fl. — ^Mid-Aj}ril to mad-May. Pr. — Mid^May to mid- June. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Kinkora, Camden (CP), Moorestown (C), 

 Gloucester, Sewell (S), Swedesboro, Quinton, Marlboro (C), Bridgeton (NB). 

 Also a record for "Mays Landing, Dr. Peters," quoted in Britton's catalogue, 

 probably from the edge of the river below the dam in the inward extension ot 

 the coast strip. Several other Middle District plants occur here which are not 

 known on the coast strip proper, and are completely cut off from their range 

 to the west by the Pine Barrens (c. f. Pinus virginiana) . 



CLEMATIS L.* 



Clematis virginiana L. Virgin's Bower. 



Clematis virginiana Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad. IV. 275. 1759 [Pennsylvania]. 

 — Knieskern S- Britton 33. 



Thickets along streams; common in the northern counties and 

 less commonly southward in the Middle district to Cape May. 



PI. — Late July to late August. Pr. — Early September to early 

 October. , 



Middle District.— Sh&rk River (Kn), Squan (Kn), Pt. Pleasant (S), New 

 Egypt, Birmingham, Pemberton (C), Cookstown (C), Wrightstown (C), 

 Medford (S), Camden (P), Mantua, Mullica Hill (C), Mickleton (NY), 

 Washington Park, Kirkwood (C), Swedesboro, Salem (C). 



Cape May.— New England (OHB). 



RANUNCULUS L. 



Ranunculus delphinifolius Torr. Yellow Water Crowfoot. 



Ranunculus' delphinifolius Torrey, in Eaton's Man. Ed. IL 395. 1818 [Upper. 



Louisiana]. — Keller and Brown 151. 

 Ranunculus multifidus Britton 36. 



* Atragene is reported in Keller and Brown's list from "Pt. Pleasant," on 

 authority of Dr. J. Stokes. Dr. Stokes, however, informs me that Pt. 

 Pleasant, Pa., was intended, the plant growing on the New Jersey side of the 

 Delaware. 



