598 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUAf. 



PTILIMNIUM Rafinesque. 



Ptilimnium capillaceum (Michx.). Mock Bishop-weed. 



Ammi capillaceum Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 164. 1803 [Carolina]. — 



Barton Fl. Phila. I. 138. 1818. 

 Discopleura capillacea Knieskern 16. — Willis 26. 

 Discopleura major Britton 116. 

 Ptilmnium capillaceum Keller and Brown 241. 



Common on the salt marshes of the coast and up Delaware 

 Bay. Occasional in fresh swamps (introduced?). 



The finely divided leaves of this little umbelifer, with their 

 almost thread-like divisions, are to be found often buried by 

 taller vegetation along the whole Coastal strip where salt 

 and fresh meadows merge one into the other. Its occurrence 

 inland is probably due to artificial introduction with soil or sand 

 from near the coast, but it seems to thrive quite well beyond 

 all maritime influence. 



Fl. — Mid- July to late September. Pr.- — Late August through 

 autumn. 



Middle District. — New Egypt, Pemberton Jnc, Kaighns Ft. 



Maritime. — Long Branch, Ft. Pleasant, Bay Head, Toms River (S), Ocean 

 Beach (T), Spray Beach (L), Manahawkin Beach, Absecon, Atlantic City, 

 Piermont, Anglesea, Wildwood, Palermo (S), Tuckahoe (T), Cape May, 

 Upper English Creek (T), Beaver Dam. 



LIL/EOPSIS Greene. 



Lilasopsis lineata Michaux. Lilaeopsis. 



Fl. XC!, Pig. 3- 



Hydrocotyle lineata Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 162. 1803 [S. Carolina]. 

 Crantzia lineata Nuttall. Gen. I. 178. 1818. 

 Lilaopsis lineata Stone. Bartonia I. 20. 1909. 



Very rare on the salt marshes of the coast. 



This humble little plant was first detected in New Jersey by 

 Thomas Nuttall, who found it growing on the salt meadows 

 near "Egg Harbor" — apparently near Beesley's Point. 



On August 30, 1909, in company with Mr. S. S. Van Pelt, I 

 found it on the marshes below Palermo, in the same neighbor- 

 hood and heralded the event as the rediscovery of the plant* as 

 I could find no record of its having been collected in the State 



* Bartonia I., p. 20, 1909. 



