PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 731 



well as the White and Purple Verbena, Thistle and Asclepias 

 incarnata (or pulchra), stand out here and there on the close 

 cropped grass, untouched by the cattle which have long since 

 devoured the more succulent and delicate plants. In the wetter 

 .spots, where tussocks of Car ex striata replace the sod, they are 

 associated with Boneset, Joe Pye Weed, Sunflowers, Asters, 

 Goldenrods, Cardinals and Snakehead, and contribute their share 

 to the riot of color which floods such spots in early autumn. 



Precisely similar associations are found in pasture lands of 

 portions of the Middle district of South Jersey and in the coastal 

 swamps, but are entirely absent from the Pine Barrens. 



Fl. — Late July to mid-September. 



Middle District— New Egypt, Fish House (S), Camden (P), Oaklyn (S). 

 Lawnside (S), Lindenwold (S), Washington Park, Swedesboro, Penns- 

 grove, Salem (S), Beaver Dam, Dividing Creek. 



Coast Strip. — Forked River, Manahawkin, 0pp. Crowleytown (S), Pleas- 

 ant Mills, Absecon (S), Beesley's Pt. (S), Palermo (S), Mays Landing 

 (S), Cape May Court House, Seaville (S), Cape May (S), Dias Creek, 

 Green Creek (S), South Dennis (S). 



SCLEROLEPIS Cassinl. 



Sclerolepis uniflora (Walt.). Sclerolepis. 



Bthulia uniflora Walter, Fl. Car. 195. 1788 [Carolina]. 

 Sclerolepis verticillata Willis 29. 



Sclerolepis uniflora Britton 128.— Keller and Brown 317. 

 Sparganophorus verticillatus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. II. 518. i8i4- 



In wet bogs, usually in the water ; locally in the Pine Barrens 

 and Cape May peninsula. 



This is one of the most interesting composites of the Pines, 

 but so little known that it has apparently never been honored 

 with a popular name. It is a plant of remote wet bogs, the 

 round pink heads reminding one at a distance of English Daisies, 

 while the remainder of the plant would seem to belong to some 

 submerged aquatic. 



I well remember my first acquaintance with Sclerolepis. It 

 was one of those sultry August days, and we were following the 

 railroad from Woodbine to Belleplain, gaining access in this 

 way to the interior of swamps that would otherwise have been 

 unattainable. The cleared strip on either side of the road-bed 

 was about the limit of our wanderings as the thickets covering 



