PLANTS OP SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 717 



Lobelia inflata L. Indian Tobacco. 



Lobelia inflata Ivinnxus, Sp. PI. 931- I7S3 [Virginia and Canada] .—Knies- 

 kern 20. — Britton 156. 



Frequent in open ground in the Northern and Middle districts. 

 Largely a weed in cultivated ground and as such enters the Pine 

 Barrens and probably the Cape May and Coast districts. Origi- 

 nal native habitat not ascertainable. 



PL — Mid-July to mid-September. 



Middle District— 'New .'Egypt, Florence Heights, Camden (P), Washing- 

 ton Park, Blackwood, Salem (S). 

 Pine Barrens. — Hammonton (Bassett), Landisville (T). 



Lobelia nuttallii R. & S. Nuttall's Lobelia. 



Lobelia Nuttallii Roemer and Schultze, Syst. V. 39. 1819 [new name for L. 



gracilis Nutt.].— Knieskern 20.— Britton 156.— Keller and Brown 307. 

 Lobelia gracilis Nuttall, Gen. II. 77. 1818 [New Jersey to Carolina]. 



Commion in moist sandy ground throughout the Pine Barrens, 

 Cape May and Coast districts, and at many stations in the Middle 

 district, occurring north of our limits at Sayreville, Middlesex 

 County. 



Named for Thomas Nuttall (i 786-1 859), the famous botanist 

 and ornithologist, for many years located at Philadelphia, where 

 he published his Genera of N. A. Plants and studied carefully the 

 region covered by the present work. 



Fl. — Early July to early Septemiber. 



Middle District. — Shark River, Farmingdale (S), Pt. Pleasant, Long 

 Branch, New Egypt, Camden, Haddonfield (S), Tomlin, Swedesboro, Wil- 

 liamstown. Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — New Lisbon, Hanover, Cedar Grove (S), Speedwell (S), 

 Waterford, Cedar Brook, Buena Vista (T), Winslow (S), Hammonton, 

 Pleasant Mills, Eighth St. (T), Egg Harbor City, Tuckahoe (S). 



Coast Strip.— Ship Bottom (L), Spray Beach (L), Anglesea. 



Cape May.— Couit House (S), Cold Spring (S). 



Lobelia canbyi Gray. Canby's Lobelia. 



Lobelia Canbyi Gray, Man. Ed. V. 284. 1867 [Quaker Bridge, N. J.].— Willis 

 36.— Britton 157.— Keller and Brown 307. 



Frequent in wet sandy spots in the Pine Barrens, reaching here 

 the northern limit of its range. , 



A taller, somewhat more robust species than the last; usually 

 with the flowers slightly tinted with lilac. It is restricted to the 

 central Pine Barren region, and named for its discoverer William 



