576 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Rare and local along the edge of the salt marshes, and reported 

 from the Hackensack mieadows north of our boundary. 



Fl. — Early August to mid-September. Fr. — ^Mid-September, 

 through autumn. 



Maritime — Monmouth and Ocean Counties on Salt Marsh (C), Atlantic- 

 County (T), Palermo, Cold Spring. 



Lythrum alatum Pursh. Wing-angled Loosestrife. 



Lythrum alatum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 334. 1814 [Lower Georgia]. — Britton 

 107. — Keller and Brown 231. 



Rare and local; apparently introduced. 



Fl. — 'Late June to early August. Fr. — Mid-September through 

 autumm. 



Middle District. — New Egypt. 

 Pine Barrens. — Williamstown Jnc. 

 Coast Strip. — Beach Haven (L). 

 Cape May. — Cape May. 



PARSONSIA P. Browne. 



Parsonsia petiolata (L.). Clammy Cuphea. 



Lythrum petiolatum Linnseus, Sp. PI. 446. 1763 [Virginia]. 

 Cuphea petiolata Britton 108. 



Occasional or frequent in the. Northern and Middle districts, 

 usually appearing as a weed in cultivated fields. 



Fl. — Late July into October. Fr. — Early September through 

 autumn. 



Middle District.— Nt-N Egypt, Moorestown (NB), Gloucester (P), Cooper^ 

 Ferry, Mickleton (H), Oaklyn (S), Lawnside (S). 



Family MELASTOMACE^. Meadow-Beauties. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Stem cylindric, very pubescent, flowers pale purple. Rhexia mariana, p. 578' 

 aa. Stem square or angled, flowers deep purple. 



b. Plant more or less pubescent, leaves ovate. R. virginica, p. 576 



hh. Plant glabrous, leaves lance-oblong. R. aristosa, p. 577 



RHEXIA L, 



Rhexia virginica L. Meadow Beauty. 



Rhexia virginica Linnasus, Sp. PI. 346. 1753 [Virginia].— Barton, Fl. Phila. 

 I. 180. 1818.— Michaux, PI. Bor. Am. I. 222. 1803.— Knieskern 14.— 

 Willis 24. — Britton 106. 



