66 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TRIOSTEUM.L. Fever- wort. Horse-Gentian. 



T. perfoliatuiii, L. Fever-wort. Horse-Gentian. 



Frequent through the south part of the state; extending north to Stearns and Todd 

 counties, Upham. 



ADOXA, L. MOSCHATEL. 



A. Moschatelliua, L* Moschatel. Hollow-root. Musk Crowfoot. 



Beside Rolling Stone creek, tliree miles west of Minnesota City, Winona county, 

 Holzinyer; Vasa, Goodhue county, Sandberg. Rare. (Also found at Decorah, Iowa, 

 and on the Rocisy mountains in Colorado ; common far north in British America.) 



SAMBUCUS, Tourn. Elder. 



S. Canadensis, L. Common Elder. Sweet Elder. 



Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state, and rare northwesterly 

 to Otter Tail and Becker counties. 



S. racemosa, L. (S. pubens, Michx.) Red-berried Elder. 

 Common, or frequent, throughout the state. 



VIBURNUM, L. Akrow-wood. Laurestinus. 



V. Lentag'O, L. Sweet Viburnum. Sheep-berry. Black Haw. 



Common through the south half of the state ; extending north at least to Cass 

 county (Fish-hook lake) and the White Earth reservation, Ga7-rison, and to Pembina, 

 Chickei ing, Scott, Havard. 



V. cassinoides, L. (V. nudum, L., var. cassinoides, Torr. & Gray.) 

 Withe-rod. 

 Upper Mississippi river and White Earth%eservation, Garrison. 



v. dentatiini , L. Arrow-wood. 



White Earth reservation, Garrison; Fergus Falls, ieo/iard; Minnesota river, Parry ; 

 Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett; New Ulm (common), Jimi; Minneapolis, Orisuold, 

 Kassuhe; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. 



V. pubescens, Pursh. Downy Arrow-wood. 

 Common, or frequent, throughout the state. 



V. acerifoliuni, L. Maple-leaved Arrow- wood. Dockmackie. 



White Earth reservation, Gai-rison; Lake City, Mrs. Ray. Infrequent. South- 

 east. 



[V. pauciflorum, Pylaie, will doubtless be found in northern Minnesota; and per- 

 haps also V, lantanoides, Michx.] 



V. Opillus, L. Cranberry- tree. Bush or High Cranberry. 



Common through the north half of the state and in the Big Woods ; frequent thence 

 southeastward; absent far southwest. Fruit much used for sauce. The name Pembina, 



*Adoxa, L. a genus of but a single species, widely distributed throughout the 

 cooler parts of the globe. Flowers perfect. Tube of the calyx coherent with the lower 

 part of the ovary, the limb slightly 2—3 cleft. Petals 4—5, inserted on the limb of the 

 calyx, united at the base, spreading. Stamens 4—5, each filament 2-parted ; the divis- 

 ions bearing each a single-celled peltate anther. Styles 4—5, subulate. Fruit an herb- 

 aceous and juicy berry, 4— 5-celled ; each cell with a single suspended seed. Seeds 

 compressed, with a membranaceous margin. 



A. MoscHATELLiNA, L. A Small perennial herb, with the odor of musk ; root tuber- 

 ous ; radical leaves twice ternately compound, on lopg petioles, the cauline solitary, 

 1—2 teiuate or incised ; flowers 4— G (greenish) in a terminal capitulum, the lateral ones 

 mostly pentaiuerous. the terminal tctramerous. Torrey and Gray's Flora of N. A., as 

 quoted by Arthur. 



