LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PKODUCING PLANTS. 809 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 149; Upham, Fl. Minn. 48. 



North America: Ind. and Ky. to Minn., Mo., Ark. 

 and Tex. ; also in Fla. 



Minn, valley: Reported from Swan lakes. Redwood 

 Co. 



CASSIA Linn. Gen. 347 (1737). 



Herpetica Rumph. ex Baillon Hist. PL II, 124 (1870). 



Bactyrilobium Willd. Enum. 439 (1809). 



Cathartocarpiis Pers. Syn. I, 459 (1805). 



Chaniaecrista E. Mey. Comm. Afr. Austr. 



Grimaldia Schrank, Munch. Dst. 103 (180S). 



Psilorlieg-ma Vog. Syn. Cass. (1837). 



Macleaya Montz. Mem. Acad. Lyon. X, 199 (1846). 



Senna Gaertn. Fruct. II, 312 (1791). 



Xamacrista Eaf. Sylv. Tell. 127 (1836). 

 Baillon, Hist. PL II, 187; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 571, 1003; Du- 

 rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 106; Schenck. Paleophyt. 697; Engler and Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanz. 3, III. 157 (Taubert). 



Living species: Described, 475; distinct, 380 ±; all 

 temperate and warmer regions. North America, 20-22; W. 

 Tex., 9; S. Sts., 7; E. Sts., 4; Calif., 2; Rocky mts., 1; PI. 

 Wheel. , 5. Center in Middle and S. America. 



Fossil species: Several described; Cretaceous of Bo- 

 hemia and Greenland (Heer); Tertiary, S. France, Germany, 

 Switzerland ( Unger, Heer) ; Pliocene, valley of the Andes ( lin- 

 ger); North America, Tertiary! 



Cassia chaniaecrista Linn. Spec. 379 (1753), 

 C. piddiella Salisb. Prodr. 326 (1796). 

 C. fasciculata Michx. Fl. N. Am. I, 262 (1803). 

 Xamacrista tvifiom Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 127 (1838). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 148; Britt., Fl N. J. 90; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 129; Chap., Fl. S. St. 115; Upham, Fl. Minn. 47; Coult., Fl.Colo. 

 73; Coult., Fl. Tex. 92; Cov., Fl. Ark. 178; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 206. 



North America: N. Eng. and N. J. to Fla. and Miss. ; 

 W. to Minn., Dak., Colo., Neb., Ark. and W. Tex. on the Rio 

 Grande. 



Minn, valley: throughout; especially in prairie dis- 

 tricts; sunny banks, roadsides and along streams. 



Herb. : Sheldon 1213, New Ulm; Sheldon 812, Cotton- 

 wood river, near Sleepy Eye; Sheldon 618, Wilton, Waseca Co. ; 

 Kassuhe 59, Minneapolis; Oesflund 38, Minneapolis; Holzinger 

 63, Winona Co.; Sandberg 148, Cannon Falls; Holzinger 64, 

 Winona Co. 



GYMNOCLADUS Lam. Enc. Meth. I, 733 (1783) in part. 

 Guilandiua Linn. Gen. ed. V, 464 (1754) in part. 



