116 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



ARISTOLOCHIACE^. Birthwort Family. 



ASARUM, Tourn. Asarabacca. Wild Ginger. 



A. Caiiadense, L. Asarabacca. Wild Ginger, 

 Common, or frequent, throughout the state. 



ARISTOLOCHIA, Tourn. Birthwort. 



A. Siplio, L'Her. Pipe- Vine. Dutchman's Pipe. 



Fillmore, Houston and Ramsey counties, Winchell; Rice county, Sperry; lake 

 Vev'm, Miss Manning. Southeast. 



NYCTAGINACEiE. Four-o'clock Family. 



OXYBAPHUS, Vabl. Oxybaphus. 



O. nyctag'iueus, Sweet. Oxybaphus. 



Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state; extending north to the 

 upper Mississippi river, Parry, Garrison, and Sand Hill river, Uphani; also found at 

 the lake of the Woods (sandy ridges of southern shore), Daivson. 



O. hirsutiis, Sweet. Oxybaphus. 



Frequent southward ; extending north to Minneapolis and Big Stone lake, Upliam, 

 and to Pembina, Harord. South and west. [One foot high, hirsute throughout; 

 leaves lanceolate, thick, the lower short-petioled; fruit of O. nyctagineus. Botany of 

 King's Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel.] 



O. aiig-iistifolius, Sweet. Oxybaphus. 



Frequent through the south half of the state. Southwest. [One to six feet 

 high, glabrous, except the peduncles and involucres ; leaves linear. Botany of Ki)ig's 

 Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. In all these species the fruit is pubescent, and the in- 

 volucre always 3- to 5-flowered.] 



PHYTOLACCACE^. Pokeweed Family. 



PHYTOLACCA, Tourn. Pokeweed. 



P. decandra, L. Garget. Poke. Scoke. Pigeon-Berry. 



Throughout the south half of the state, but infrequent or rare. Blue Earth county, 

 Leiherg; Mmneapolis, ^. W.Jones; upper Mississippi river, Garrison. 



CHENOPODIACE.E. Goosefoot Family. 



CYCLOLOMA, Moquin. Wingkd Pigweed. 



C. platyphyllum, Moquin. Winged Pigweed. 



Beach at northwest side of Mille Lacs (plentiful), and north end of Long lake, 

 Crow Wing county, Upham. 



CHENOPODIUM, Tourn. (Including Blitum, Tourn.) Goose- 

 foot. Pigweed. 



C. album, L. Lamb's- Quarters, Pir/tceed. 



A common weed in waste and cultivated ground throughout the state. 



