LIST OF HIGHER SEED PRODUCING PLANTS. 335 



Oxalis longiflora Linn. Spec. 433 (1753). 



O. violacea Ltnn. Spec. 43'4 (1753). 

 O. vespertilionis Gray, PI. Fendl. 27 (1849). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 105; Britt., Fl. N. J. 73; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 121; Coult.. Fl. Colo. 45; Upham, Fl. Minn. 36; Chap., Fl. S. St. 

 63: Roth., Wheel. Exp. 81; Cov., Fl. Ark. 171; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 153. 



North America: N. Eng. to Colo, and S. to N. J., 

 Pla. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: E. and central districts to Chippewa 

 river; dry or rocky places and in sterile soil. 



Herb. : Ballard 268, Jordan, Scott Co. ; Sheldon 745, 

 Sleepy Eye; Taylor 587, Minnesota lake; Sheldon 1598, Lake 

 Benton; Taylor 351, J dt,nesville; Huntington 3, Rock Co.; Her- 

 rick 63, Minneapolis; Sandberg 109, Cannon Falls; Herb. Sheld. 

 1885, Minneapolis; Herb. Moyer 46, Montevideo. 



LV, LINACEAE. Flax Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 1170 (1840); Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. I, 241 (1862) 

 —excl. Trib. Ill, Erythroxyleae; Baillon, Hist. PL V, 42 (1874)— eccd. senes 

 III, Enjthroxyleae; Reiche, Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, IV, 27 (1889). 



Genera: 9-10; tropical, subtropical and temperate 

 regions. 



Species: 120 ±, 75 per cent, in genus Linum Linn. 



LINUM Linn. Gen. 254 (1737). 



Aclenolinuni, Catliartoliuuin, Linopsis, Xaiitholinuni 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. VI, 07 (1844). 



Cliococca Bab. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIX, 33 (1855). 

 Kacliola Gmel. Syst. 289 (1805). 

 Reinwardtia Dum. Com. Bot. 19(1822). 

 Macrolinum Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. VI, 68 (1844). 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. V, 63; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 242, 243, 987; 

 Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 46; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, IV, 30, 

 31 (Reiche); Gray, III. Gen. II, 107; Schenck, Palacophyt. 530 



Living species: 95 ±; cosmopolitan, mts. in tropics. 

 Russia, 20; Europe, 33; Russian Europe, 14; North America, 

 18-21; Mid. Calif., 10; Canada, 6; E. Sts., 5; Rocky mts., 3; S. 

 Sts., 4; PI. Wheel., 3; PI. King, 2; W. Tex., 9; Pac. coast, 14. 



Fossil species: 1; very doubtful, in Oligocene of Europe 

 {Coniventz). 



Linum rigidum Pursh, Fl. Am. 210 (ISM). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 102; Coult., Fl. Colo. 42; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 35; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 89; Coult., Fl. Tex. 47; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 

 77. 78 in var.; Cov , Fl. Ark. 171; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 147; Webb., Appx. 

 Neb. 32. 



