PLANiTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 695 



CONOPHOLIS Wallroth. 



Conopholis americana (L. t). Squaw Root. 



Orobanche americama Linnaeus, fil. Suppl. 88. 1767 [Carolina]. 

 Conopholis americana Willis 42.— Britton 190.— Keller and Brown 296. 



Rare and local in woods of the Northern counties. Its 

 occurrence within our limits rests wholly upon the indefinite 

 sbtatement in Britton's Catalogue on authority of C. F. Parker 

 for Camden Co. The Swedesboro record in Keller and Brown's 

 List was an error of compilation, as Mr. Lippincott's specimens 

 were really from a Pennsylvania locality. 

 Middle District— Cs.mdtn Co. (C). 



LEPTAMNIUM Rafinesque. 



Leptamnium virginianum (Ln). Beech-drops. 



Orobanche virginiana Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 633. 1753 [Virginia]. 



Bpiphegus Virginiana Britton 191. 



Leptamnium Virginianum Keller and Brown 296. 



Common in Beech woods of the northern counties and occa- 

 sional southward within our limits in the IMiddle district. 



This brown, branched, fungfus-like plant is always associated 

 with Beech trees on the roots of which it is parasitic. 



PL — ^Early September into October. 



Middle District.— 'New Egypt, Pemberton (NB), Mickleton (C), Oaklyn 

 (S), Lawnside (S), Swedesboro. 



Family BIGNONIACE^. Trumpet Creepers, etc. 



a. Flowers bright red, plant a climbing vine. Tecoma, p. 695 



aa. Flowers white with frilled edges, leaves large, broadly ovate. A large tree. 



[Catalpa catalpa]* 



TECOMA Jussieu. 



Tecoma radicans (L.). Trumpet Creeper. 



Bignonia radicans Linnasus, Sp. PI. 624. 1753 [America]. — Barton, Fl. Phila. 



IL 43. 1818. 

 Tecoma radicans Britton 193. — Keller and Brown 296. 



Thickets in low grounds; frequent in the lower Cape IVlay 

 peninsula, the southern coast islands and in Cumberland and 

 Salem Counties. 



* Catalpa or Indian Bean escaped from cultivation. 



