3 50 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Chomelia Yelloz. Flum. I, 106 (1827). 

 Pileostegia Turcz. Bull. Mosc. XXXII, 276 (1859). 

 Leucoclennis Planch. Herb. Hook. 

 Byrouia Endl. Ann. Wien. I, 184 (1835). 

 Polystigma Meissn. Gen. 252 (1 43/. 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 356; Durand, Incl. Gen. Phan. 65; 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 580; BalUon, Hist. PI. XI, (1892). 



Living species: 175 ±; cosmopolitan. Centers in 

 Brit. Guiana and Brazil; very infrequent in Africa and Australia; 

 13-14, E. North America. S. Sts., 12; E. Sts., 9; Canada, 4. 



Fossil species: Tertiary, Greenland and Alaska 

 (Heer). 



Ilex yerticillata (Linn.) Gray, Man. 5 ed. 307 (1867). 

 Prinos verticillatus Linn". Spec. 330 (1753). 

 P. confertus Moench, Meth. 481 (1794). 

 P. gronovU MiCHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 236 (1803). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 109; Britt., Fl. N. J. 75; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 95; Chap., Fl. S. St. 270; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 93; Gov., Fl. Ark. 172; 

 Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 160. 



North America: N. S. to C. Ont and Minn.; S. to N. 

 Eng., N. J. and Fla.; W. to 111., Iowa, Mo. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Reported from the N. edge but some- 

 what doubtful, low woodland. 



Herb.: Sandberg 388, Marine Mills; Herrick 188, St 

 Louis river. 



LXIII. STAPHYLEACEAE. Bladder-Nut 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 1084(1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. PL I, 

 392 (1862)— sub Sapindaceae; Balllon, Hist. PI. V, 392. 



Genera: 2; N. extra- tropical region. 



Species: 15 ± ; principally in Chinese- Japanese region 

 and E. India. Fossils from Green river Tertiary, Wyoming. 



STAPHYLEA Linn. Gen. 248 (1737). 

 Bumalda Tiiunb. Fl. Jap. 8 (1784). 

 Stapliylodendroii TouuN. Inst. 616 (1700). 

 BsiiUon, Hist. PL V, 392; Benth. and Hook., Gc??. PZ. .1, 412; Durand, 

 Incl. Gen. Phan. 83; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 554; Gray, 111. Gen. II, 181. 



Living species: 4; 1, Europe; 2, N. America; 1, Hima- 

 layas and Japan; Atl. states, 1; Pac. America, 2. 



Fossil species: 1, Green river group, Tertiary, N. 

 America (Lesquereaux). 

 Staphylea trifolia Linn. Spec. 270 (1753). 



Staphylodemh-um trifoliatum MoENCii, Meth. 64 (1794). 



