LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 283 



S. and Mid. Russ. to Hungary; all Siberia and Man- 

 churia; China; intro. in W. Europe. 



North America: Newl, N. S. to Rocky mts.; N. on 

 Mackenzie to Arctic sea; Alaska; S. to N. Eng., N. J. and Ga.; 

 W. to Minn., Mo. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; wet places, edges of 

 prairie sloughs and forest-meadows. 



Herb. : Ballard 508, Prior's lake, Scott Co. ; Ballard 

 721, Benton, Carver Co.; Ballard 877, Waconia; Taylor 866, 

 Glen wood; Sheldon 356, Smith's Mills, Blue Earth Co. ; Taylor 

 719, Minnesota lake; Sheldon 920, Sleepy Eye; Sheldon 615, 

 Wilton, Waseca Co.; Hcrrick 87, Minneapolis; Sandherg 157, 

 Red Wing; i^Tass/tfee 6'i, Minneapolis; Bailey 95, Yeriailionlaike; 

 Herb. Moyer 69, Chippewa Co. 



PIRUS Linn. Gen. 145 (1737). 



Sorbu.s Linn. Gen. 144 (1737). 



Mains Rupp. FI. Jen. ed. 3, 141 (1745). 



Cydouia, Mains, Sorbus, Pirus Tourn. Inst. 628, seq. (1700). 



Torminalis, Lazarolus, Aucuparia and Clianiaemespilus 

 Medic. Phil. Bot. 1, 134-138 (1789). 



Piropboruiii, Apiropboruni Neck. Elem. II, 72 (1790). 



Hahuia Medic. Gesch. Bot. 81 ( 1793). 



Azarolus Borkh. Handb. Forst. Bot. II, 1224 (1800). 



Aroiiia Pers. Syn. il, 39 (1807) excl. Amelanchier. 



Aria Host. F1, Austr. II, 7 (1831). 



Cormus Spach, Suit. Buff. II, 96 (1334). 



Tormiuaria Roem. Syn. Monog. Ill, 101 (1841). 



Micromeles Decne. Nouv. Arch. Mus. X, 168 (.1861). 



Cliloromeles Decne. FI. Serr. XXIII, 156 ( ). 



Baillon, Hist. PI. I, 475; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 626: Durand, 

 Jncl. Gen. Phan. 114: Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 22 (Focke); 

 Schenck, Puteopkyt. 671; Sargent, N. Am. SiloalY, 67. 



Living species: 50-60 or less; temperate N. hemi- 

 sphere, mts. of tropical India. Russia, 20; Himalayas, 22; 

 Europe, 15; Russian Europe, 11; N, America, 7; Canada, 6; E. 

 Sts., 5; S. Sts., 4; Mid. Calif., 1; Rocky mts., 1; PI. King, 1. 



Fgssil species: Several; Tertiary of Spitzbergen and 

 Greenland (Heer.); Japan {Ndthorst)] Bilin (Ettinghausen); 

 Cretaceous, Kansas (Newberry); Europe- (Unger); Tuscany 

 (Gaud.); Quaternary travertines, Kutschlin {Ettinghausen and 

 Engler). 



Pirus sanibucifolia Cham, and Schlecht. Linn. II, 36 

 (1827). 



Sorbus aucuparia var. B. Michx. FI. Bor.-Am. I, 290 (1803). 

 S. aucuparia Schrank, PI. Labr. 25 (1830?) in part. 



