562 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



North America: Minn, and Dak. to Iowa, Neb., Ark. 

 and Tex. 



Minn, valley: S. W. district; local?; thicket edges 

 and borders of woods, or in openings. 



Herb. : Sheldon 894, Sleepy Eye. 



Laetuca hirsuta Muhl. Cat. (1813). 



L. sangidnea Bigel. F1. Bost. 2 ed. 287 (1824). 

 L. sagittaefolia Ell. Sk. II, 253 (1824). 



L. elongata var. sanguinea and alhiflora T. and G. Fl. II, 496 

 (1841). 



G alathenium sanguineum 'dud Jloridanum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc. VII, 443 (1841). 



Laetuca canadensis Gray, Man. 5 ed. (1867). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 304; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 280; Brltt., 

 Fl. N. J. 154; Upham, Fl. Minn. 91; Gov., Fl. Ark. 199; Gray, Syn.Fl. I, 2, 

 442; Coult., Fl. Tex. 249. 



North America: Ont. to E. Mass., N. J. and La.; W. 

 to Minn., Ark. and Tex. 



Minn, valley: Forest and W. district; doubtless N. 

 W. ; borders of woods and thickets. 



Herb. : Sheldon ISOJ^, Lake Benton. 



Jjactuca canadensis Linn. Spec. 796 (1753). 



X. caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 193 (1788). 

 L. longifolia MiCHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 85 (1803). 

 L. elongata Muhl. Willd. Spec. Ill, 1523 (1803). 

 Sonchus pallidus Willd. Spec. Ill, 1521 (1803). 

 Galathenium elongatum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. VII, 443 

 (1841). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 304; Britt.. FL N. J. 154; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 143; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 280; Upham, Fl. Minn. 91; Cov., FL Ark. 

 199; Gray, Syn. Fl. I, 2, 442. 



North America: Anticosti to Assiniboia and Sas- 

 katchewan; S. to N. Eng. and N. J. to Ga. ; W. to Minn., Neb. 

 and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; borders of thickets and 

 open places in woods. 



Herb.: Ballard 616, Chaska; Ballard 744, Waconia; 

 Sheldon 1010, Sleepy Eye; Ballard 580, Rice lake, Scott Co.; 

 Taylor 1021, Glenwood; Sheldon 1181, New Ulm; Bailey 196, 

 Vermilion lake; Kassube 140, Minneapolis; Sandberg 359, Can- 

 non Falls. 



TARAXACUM Hall. Stirp. Helv. I, 23 (1742). 

 Leontodon Adans. Fam. II, 112(1763). 

 Lasiopus Don, Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. 2, 346 (1836). 

 ? Caramaiiaca Tineo, PI. Rar. Sic. (1846). 

 DeiiH JLeonis Touun. Inst. 468(1700). 



