LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 323 



North America; Red valley to N. W. T. and 51° N. 

 lat. ; Saskatchewan and W. Minn, to Rocky mts. and N. Tex. 



Minn, valley: Reported from Chippewa river and 

 Glenwood; W. to Dakota line; high bluffs and prairies. 



Spiesia lamberti (Pursh) O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I, 

 207 (1891). 



Oxytropis lamberti Pursh, F1. Am 740 (1814). 

 Astragalus lamberti PoiR. Suppl. V, 564 (1817). 

 Oxytropis hookeriana Nutt. T. and G. Fl. I, 340 (1838). 

 Wats, and Cuult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 137: Webb., Fl. Neb. 130; Coult., 

 Fl. Colo, 71; Upham, Fl. Minn. 44; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 116; Coult., Fl. Tex. 

 84: Roth., Wheel. Exp. 42, 97; Wats., King Exp. 447; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 

 245. 



North America: Red valley and N. W. T. to Alaska; 

 Saskatchewan, Minn. , N. Mex. and Tex. ; W. to Rocky mts. 

 Minn, valley: Prairie district, E. to New Ulm; high, 

 bare bluffs and prairies. 



Herb.: Sheldon 1337, Lake Benton; Sheldon 1389, 

 Verdi, Lincoln Co.; Taylor 832. Glenwood; Taylor 873, Glen- 

 wood; Roberts 25, Hancock; Leiherg 16, 'Rock Co.; Herb. Wick- 

 ersheim 32, Idlewild, Lincoln Co. 



ASTRAGALUS Linn. Gen. 570 (1737). 



Phaca Linn Gen. Corr. 972 (1737). 



Homolobus and Keiitropbyta Nutt. T. and G. Fl. N. Am. 

 I, 350, 353 (1838). 



Diplotheca Hochst, Flora 595 (1846). 



Aiilosema Walp. Rep. I, 694 (1842). 



Portolotus ROYLE, 111. Him. 198 (1839). 



Trag-acantha Toukn. Inst. 417 (1700). 



Eropbaca Boiss. Voy. Bot. 176(1839). 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. II, 280; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. 1, 506; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Plian. 94; O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. I, 210. 



Living species: 1300 described; 900 ± distinct. Cen- 

 ter in Russian Asia, Himalayas and the Orient; Europe, North 

 and South America, S. E. Africa (1 sp.); wanting in Australia 

 and Cape of Good Hope region. Especially in northern hemi- 

 sphere; Russia, 175; Europe, 125; Russian Europe, 52; North 

 America, 150+; Mid. Calif., 36; W. Tex., 19; all Calif., 50±; 

 Canada, 42; E. Sts., 16; S. Sts., 6; Rocky mts., 66; PL King, 

 40; PI. Wheel., 30. 



Astragalus lotifloriis Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. I, 152 (1833). 



Phaca lotijlora T. and G. Fl. I, 349 (183S). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 136; Wats., King- Exp. 439; Roth., 

 Wheel. Exp. 36: Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 196; Webb., Fl. Neb 131; Coult., Fl. 

 Colo. 63: Mac, Fl. Can. I, 112. 



