LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 219 



North America: N. S., N. Br., Ont., Man., Saskatch- 

 ewan to Alaska; S. to N. Eng., N. J., N. Car.; W. to Ohio, 

 Minn., Neb., Mo. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; Ft. Snelling to Blue 

 Earth Co. ; damp woodland and in open groves. 



Herb. : Sandherg 99, Goodhue Co. ; Leiberg 13, Blue 

 Earth Co. ; Leiberg 14, Blue Earth Co. ; Herb. Sheld. 1872, St. 

 Paul; Herb. Wickersheim 25, Mankato. 



PORTULACA Linn. Gen. 341 (1737). 

 Meridiana Ltnn. f. Siippl. 248 (1781). 

 Mericla Neck. Elem. 1195(1790). 

 Lamia Vand. Roem. Script. 116 (1796). 

 Baillon, Hist. PL IX, 67; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 156; Durand, 

 Jncl. Gen. Phan. 31; Engler and Prantl, JVf<;. Pfianz. 3, I h, 59 (Pax); Gray, 

 111. Gen. I, 227. 



Living species : 20 ± ; tropical and subtropical regions, 

 especially N. America and N. Australia. One species cos- 

 mopolitan; one other widely diffused. 16 sp. (B. and H.); Rus 

 sia, Russian Europe and Europe, 1; North America, 10; W. 

 Tex., 6; Calif., 3; S. Sts., 3; Rocky mts., 1; E. Sts., 2; PI. 

 King, 1; PL Wheel., 1-2. 



Portulaca retiisa Engelm. and Gray, PI. Lindh. 154 (1845). 

 Wats, and Coult,, Gray's Man., 6 ed. 90; Coult., Fl. Colo. 37; Brew, and 

 Wats., Fl. Calif. I, 74; Upham, Fl. Minn. 33; Coult., Fl. Tex. 31; Wats., 

 Bibl. Ind. I, 121. 



North America: Colo, river to Tex.; N. to Ark.? Kan., 

 Iowa and Minn 



Minn, valley: West and on higher levels; waste ground 

 along streams. 



XXXVIII. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Pink Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 955 (1840); St. Hil., Mem. Plac. Lib. 56 (1816)— 

 Paronychieae; R. Br., Prodr. 413 [1810)— lllecebraceae ; De, Candolle, Fl. 

 France, 3 ed. I\ , 766 {1805)— Alsinaceae ; Bartling, Orel. Nat. 305 (1830)— 

 Silenaceae and 300, Scleranthaceae ; Bentli. and Hook., Gen. PI. I. 141; III, 

 12 (1865-1880); Pax, Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pfianz. 3, I h, 60 (1889). 



Genera: 70; cosmopolitan in distribution. 

 Species: 1250; many cosmopolitan; principally in N. 

 temperate zone. 



SILENE Linn. Gen. 372 (1737). 



Heliosperma Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. VI, 277 (1842). 

 Elisanthe Fenzl. Endl. Gen. 972 (1836-40). 

 Carpophora Klotzsch, Reis. Wald. 139 (1840?). 

 Cucubalus Spach, Suit. Buff. V, 172 (18.38). 



