304 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Minn, valley: Reported from N. E. district, but no 

 Minn, specimens seen. 

 Rosa aciciilaris Lindl. Monog. Ros. 44 (1820). 

 B. sayi ScnAVfiiN. Keat. Narr. II, Appx. ] 13 (1825). 

 B. acicularis var. bourgeauiana Ckepin, Prim. Ros. 386, 390(1880). 

 B. engelvianni S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. XX, 342 (1885). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 162; Upham, Suppl. Minn. 47; 

 Coult., Fl. Colo. 87; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 144, 520, II, 320; Trautv., Fl. Sib. 54 

 in var.; Nym., Fl. Eur.: Forbes and Hems., Fl. Sin. 248; Herd.. Fl. Eur. 

 Russ. 



N- Europe; W. and N. Asia to China. 



North America: Wise, Mich, and Minn.; N. to Man., 

 N. W. T. and Alaska; W. to Mont, and Pac. coast, in Oregon 

 and Brit. Col. 



Minn, valley: N. E. district and N. edge; rare; wood- 

 land openings and banks of streams. 



Herb.: Atihiir 81, Two Harbors; Bailey 84, Vermil- 

 ion lake; Bailey 223, Vermilion lake. 



Rosa virginiana Mill. Diet. (1768). 



B. hlanda Ait. Hort. Kew. II, 202 (1789). 

 B. fraxinifolia Gmel. Fl. Bad. II, 413 (1806). 

 B. gemella Willd. Enum. 544 (1809) mainly. 



B. cinnaniomea var. glabella Seringe, DC. Prodr. II, 605 (1825). 

 B. hlanda var. 2)ubescens Ckepin, Prim. Ros. 394(1880). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 162; Upham, Fl. Minn. 52; Up- 

 ham, Suppl. Minn. 47; Webb., Fl. Neb. 127; Coult., Fl. Colo. 87?; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 98; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 194, 519; Cov., Fl. Ark. 179; Wats., Bibl. 

 Ind. I, 309. 



North America: Newf., Q. to N. J. ; W to Hudson 

 Bay, Brit. Col?, L. Winnipeg, Minn., Dak., Neb. and Ark.; 

 and possibly also in Colo. 



Minn, valley; Throughout, common; banks, rocks, 

 hillsides and low prairies. 



Herb.: Taylor 844^, Minnesota lake; Taylor 844, 

 Glenwood; Taylor 272, Janesville; Ballard 21, Chaska; Ballard 

 223, Jordan, Scott Co. ; Sheldon 1347, Verdi, Lincoln Co. ; Ballard 

 89, Chaska; Sheldon 368, Madison Lake; Taylor 15, Elysian; 

 Bailey 3J,, Vermilion lake; Sandberg 18U, Cannon Palls; Sand- 

 berg 185, Cannon Falls- Kassube 81, Minneapolis; Kassuhe 82, 

 Minneapolis; Holzinger 71, Winona Co. ; Hammond 16, Lake 

 City; Herh. Sheld. 18(U, Minneapolis; Herb. Wickersheim hh> 

 Idlewild, Lincoln Co. ; Herb. Moyer 78, Montevideo. 



Rosa virginiana var. arkansana (Porter). 

 B. arkansana Pout. Fl. Colo. 38 (1874). 

 B. hlanda \'a,T. .sctigera Ckei'IN, J'rini. Ros. 394(1880). 

 B. hlanda \:iT. (irkansana Best, Torr.-BuU. XVII, 145(1890). 



