412 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Exp. 213; Gov , Fl. Ark. 201; Engl. Pax, Nat. Pflanz. 4, I, 110: Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. II, 1, 60. 



North America: Rainy river to Pembina mts. and 

 Thompson river, Brit. Col.; lat. 49° N. to N. Mex. ; E. to Minn., 

 111. and Tenn.?; W. to Neb., Utah and Colo. 



Minn, valley: S. C. and S. W. districts; high prai- 

 ries or knolls. 



Herb. : Sandherg 389, Red Wing. 



LYSIMACHIA Linn. Gen. 121 (1737). 

 liUbiula Vent. Cels. 96 (1800). 

 Palladia Moench, Meth. 429 (1794). 

 Coxia Endl. Gen. 733 (1840). 

 Naunibergia Moench, Suppl. 429 (1802). 

 Thyrsanthus Schrank, Denksch. Baier. Acad. 75 (1813). 

 Lerouxia Merat. Fl. Par. 77 (1812). 

 Ephemerum Reich. Fl. Germ. Exs. 409 (1830). 

 Theopyxis Griseb. Phillip, and Lechl. (1844). 

 Godinella Lestib. ex Dur. Ind. Phan. 250 (1888). 

 Anagzaiithe and Bernardiiia Bando, ex Baill. 1. c. (1892). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. II, 635; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 250; En- 

 gler and Prantl, iVa(. Pflanz. 4, I, 112 (Pax); Schenck, Palaeophyt. 734; 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. IX, 343. 



Living species: 60 ±; temperate and subtropical re- 

 gions of both hemispheres; very few in the S. hemisphere; 

 centers in China. N. America, 5. 



Fossil species: Interglacial, Elbe river (Schenck). 



Lysimachia thyrsiflora Linn. Fl. Dan. 517 (1757). 



L. capitata Pursh, Fl. Am. 135 (1814). 

 Naumhiirgia thyrsiflora Reich. DC. Prodr. VIII, 60(1844). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 331; Britt., Fl. N. J. 165; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 97; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 314; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 63; Webb., Appx. 

 Neb. 36, 



Europe; Japan. 



North America: N. S., N. Br. to Mackenzie and Pac. 

 to Alaska; S. Oregon, Minn., Iowa, Neb., S. 111., Penn. and 

 N. J. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; swamps, bogs and wet 

 meadows. 



Herb.: Sheldon 344, m.3,rs,hes south of Lake Madison; 

 Taylor 443, Lake Helena, Waseca Co. ; Ballard 561, Prior's lake, 

 Scott Co,; Taylor 48, Elysian; Holzimjer 140, Winona Co.; Her- 

 rick 189, Minneapolis; Bailey 421, Long lake; Sandherg 391, 

 Chisago Co. ; Herrick 190, Mmne&poUs; OesUund 111, Ramsey 

 Co. ; Herb. Moyer 159, Montevideo. 



