216 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



S. Europe; China? 



North America: Ont. and N. Eng. to Minn. ; S. to Fla. ; 

 W. to Dak. •? Neb. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Forest district to Blue Earth Co. ; infre- 

 quent; low grounds. 



Herb. : Taylor 552, Janesville. 



XXXVI. NYCTAGINACEAE. Four-o'Clock 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 310(1840); Beath. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 1 (1880); 

 Heimerl, in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I b, 14 (1889). 



Genera: 15-16; tropical and warmer regions; princi- 

 pally America; rare in Australia and almost wanting in Africa. 

 Species: 160 ± ; principally in tropical America. 



MIRABILIS Linn. Gen. 139 (1737). 

 Admirabilis Clus. Hist. II. 87 (1601). 

 Nyctago Juss. Gen. 90 (1789). 

 Jalapa Moench, Meth. 508 (1794). 

 Quamoclidiou Cuois. Prodr. 429 n. 2 (1849?). 

 Acleisanthes A. Gray, Brief. Cliar. Am. Jour. Sci. (II) XV, 



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( ). 



Nyctagiuea Cnois. Mem. Gen. XII (1839). 



Pentacophrys A. Gray, Brief. Char. Am. Jour. Sci. (II) XV, 



Oxybaphus L'Her. ex Vahl. Enum. II, 39 (1806). 

 AUionia Loeffl. It. 181 (1758). 

 Calyxhyiueiiia Orteg. Dec. 5, t. 1 (1800). 

 Calymeuia Pers. Syn. I, 36(1805). 

 Vitiiianiiia Turra, ex Cav. Ic. Ill, add. (1794). 

 Palavia and Bruguiera Cav. I.e. (1794'. 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. IV, 18, 19; Benth. and Hoolc., Gen. PI. Ill, 3, 4; Du- 

 rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. .331; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I h, 24, 25; 

 (Heimerl); Schenck, Palaeophyt. 491. 



Living species: 30; mostly W. and S. W. N. America, 

 Central America and Chile; 1-4-15, N. America and Mexico. E. 

 Sts., Canada, and S. Sts., 3; 1 sp. in Himalayas. 



Fossil species: Doubtful; 1-2 Gen. Nyctaginaceae in 

 Oligocene and Miocene of W. N. America and Bohemia. 



Miraliilis aii^iistifolius (Nutt.). 



Calyrnenia angustifolia Nutt. Eras. Cat. (1813). 



AUionia linearis Puusii, Fl. Am. I, 729 ^1814). 



(Jxiihaphus (mfjustifolius Sweet, Hort. lirit. 567 (1827). 



Calyxhyruenia pilosa Engelm. and Gray, PI. Lindh. 293 (1845). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 425; Webb., Fl. Neb. 114; Coult., 

 Fl. Colo. 302; Upham, Fl. Minn. 116; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 395; Wats., King. 

 Exp. 284, 475; Roth., Wheel. Ex. 226; Cov., Fl. Ark. 214. 



