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Notes From the Minnesota State Herbaria. 
I. SOME EXTENSIONS OF PLANT RANGES. 
By EpMUND P. SHELDON. 
_ (PiatTe CLIX.) 
Potamogeton Vaseyi, Robbins, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 485 (1867). 
Not previously reported from Minnesota. Specimens of the 
fruiting form with floating leaves were found in Chisago lake, 
Chisago county, Minn. (B. C. Taylor, July, 1892). 
Potamogeton Illinoensis, Morong, Bot. Gaz. v. 50 (1880). 
Hitherto Minnesota collections of this species have been made 
only on the southern border of the State. It has been found at 
Lake Minnewaska, Pope county, Minn. (B. C. Taylor, Aug., 1891), 
and at Green lake, Chisago county, Minn. (B. C. Taylor, Aug., 
1892). 
v SAGITTARIA CUNEATA, n. sp. Aquatic, rooting in the sand; leaves 
long-petioled, sagittate or rarely oblong-lanceolate; blade float- 
ing, small, 2-3 inches in length, with linear lobes; phyllodia 
submerged, of two forms, either linear-attenuate and reaching 
nearly to the surface of the water, or lanceolate and clustered 
at the base; scape slender, terete, 2-3 feet in length, bearing 
whorls of flowers at the surface of the water; pedicels divergent, 
extended, ternate, with often a fourth in the upper whorls; 
bracts connate, lanceolate-ovate, acute; filaments glandular- . 
thickened, not pubescent, shorter than the ovate anthers; 
achenia cuneate, short, one-half line in length, with minute 
retrorse beak above, outer and inner margins with single, 
tumid crests. [Plate CLIX.] : 
Abundant in shallow water of East Battle Lake, Otter Tail 
county, Minn., from which locality the type specimen is described. — 
Found also in Mollie Stark and Blanche Lakes of the same county 
(E. P.S., Aug., 1892). ; 
Poa debilis, Torr. Fl. N. Y. ii. 459 (1843). 
Not previously reported from Minnesota. Abundant in open, 
sandy soil near Mora, Kanabec county, Minn. (E. P.S., July, 1892). 
Lviophorum Virginicum, Linn. Spec. i. 52 (1753). 
Not previously reported from Minnesota. Swamps and peat- 
ee oe near Little Lake, Chisago county, Minn. (B. C. Taylor, Aug., 
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