646 REPORT OF NEW' JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Apocynum medium Greene. Small-flowered Dogbane. 

 Apocynum medium Greene, Pittonia III. 229. 1897 [Brookland, D. C.]. 



Tolerably common in the Pine Barrens and probably elsewhere 

 in cultivated ground or on roadsides ; very variable and includ- 

 ing^, milleri Britton and A. urceoiifer G. S. Miller. 



The Speedwell specimen has the leaves pubescent on both 

 sides, the others only below. 



Fl. — Early June to early August, occasionally later. 



Pine Barrens. — ^Toms River, Chatsworth, Harris, Speedwell. 



Apocynum cannablnum L. Indian Hemp. 



Apocynum cannabinum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 213. 1753 [Canada and Virginia]. — 

 Knieskern 25. — Britton 168. 



Apparently frequent throughout the State in one form or 

 another, usually appearing as a weed within our limits, but 

 perhaps still in its native habitat along the Coast Strip. 



In all the specimens here listed the inflorescence is glabrous; 

 some have the leaves all tomientous below, others have most of 

 them entirely glabrous. 



Pi. — Early June to late August, occasionally later. 



Middle District— Mediord (S), New Egypt, Westville, Swedesboro, Mickle- 

 ton, Landisville. 



Coast Strip.— Smi City (L), Atlantic City, Wildwood. 



Apocynum cannabinum pubescens R. Br. Pubescent Indian Hemp. 



Apocynum pubescens R. Brown, Mem. Wern. Soc. Nat. Hist., p. 68. 1811 

 [Virginia]. 



Occasional in the Pine Barrens and probably elsewhere. A 

 form with velvety pubescence on the inflorescence and both sides 

 of the leaves. 



Pi. — As in the preceding. 

 Pine Barrens.— Winslow Jnc, Landisville, Egg Harbor City. 



Family ASCLEPIADACE-^. Milkweeds. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Corolla crown of five hooded, fleshy bodies, with an incurved horn rising- 

 from the cavity of each hood. 

 b. Leaves hirsute pubescent, mainly alternate, corolla and hood both 

 orange. Asclepias tuber osa, p. 647 



bb. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, verticillate. 



