554 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Hypericum galioides Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. II. 376. 1814 (as to N. J. 

 records). 



Open swamps; confined to the Middle and Cape May districts, 

 occurring north of our limits only at several stations in Bergen 

 County. The statement of Torrey and Gray that it occurs in 

 the Pine Barrens is not substantiated, and is no doubt due to the 

 loose use of the term: to cover all of southern Ntew Jersey. 



Pi. — Early July to late August. Pr. — iMid-September through 

 autumn. 



Middle District. — Burlington, Etelanco, Florence, Moorestown (KB), 

 Union Grove. 

 Coast Strip?— U.s.ys'LzMmg (CDL). 

 Cape May. — Bennett, Cold Spring, Cape May (S).* 



Hypericum ellipticum Hook. Pale St. John's-wort 



Hypericum ellipticum Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. I. no. 1830 [Canada to Lake 

 Winnepeg]. — Britton 67. — Keller and Brown 224 (in part). 



Confined to the upper Delaware valley in swampy ground and 



bogs, locally southward to Camden. 



Pi. — ^Mid-June to early July. Pr. — Late August into October. 



Middle District.— Emlm^on (P), Kaighns Pt., Camden (C).t 



Hypericum virgatum ovallfolium Britton. New Jersey St. John's-wort. 



Hypericum virgatum, var. ovallfolium Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. IX. 10. 



1889 [Pine Barrens of N. J.].— Britton 67. 

 Hypericum angulosum Muhlenberg, Cat. 68. 1813. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 



II. 378. 1814.— Knieskern 8.— Willis 11. 

 Hypericum virgatum- Keller and Brown 224. 



Frequent in bogs and swamjps of the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May peninsula; rare and local in Pine Barren islands in the 

 Middle district. 



The peculiar coppery color of the flowers distinguishes this 

 from any of the other species of our range. 



PL — iMid-July to early Septemiber. Pr. — ^Late September 

 through autumn. 



* I have grave doubts about the record for Freehold, given by Britton on 

 authority of Willis, and there is no specimen to substantiate it. Keller and 

 Brown's records for Egg Harbor, Atco and Mays Landing are probably 

 H. densiilorum. 



tThe records in Keller and Brown for Egg Harbor and Mays Landing, 

 and probably for Pt. Pleasant, are based on H. v. ovalifolium. 



