72 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Zumbrota ; Leiberg 93, Blue Earth Co.; Saulberg 566, Cannon 

 Palls. 



Bouteloua oligostachya (NUTT.) TORR. Gray's Man. ed. v. 



621 (1868). 



Atheropogon oligostachyum NUTT. Gen I, 78 (1818). 

 Chondrosium oligostachyum TORR. Marcy's Rep. 300 (1853). 

 Eutriania oligostachyum KUNTH, Enum. I, (1833). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 656; Upham, Fl. Minn. 164; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 103; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 216; Coult., Fl. Colo. 416; Wats., Fl. Calif. 

 II, 291 ; Vas., Ag. Grasses U. S, 57 ; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 32, 288 ; Cov., Fl. 

 Ark. 236. 



North America: Man.. Saskatchewan, Assiniboia and 

 Rocky mts.; S. to Tex. and Mex.; W. to S. Calif.; E. to Wise, 

 and Iowa. 



Minn, valley: S. central district and S. W. ; plains and 

 high meadows. 



HERB. : Leiberg 92, Blue Earth Co. 



BECKMAWV1A HOST. Gram. Austr. Ill, 5 (1805). 

 Brucbmannia NUTT. Gen. I, 48 (1818). 

 Joacbimea TEN. ex Kunth, Enum. I (1833). 



Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI III, 1099; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 474; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, II, 60 'Hackel). 



Living species: 1; E. and S. E. Europe; temperate 

 Asia and N. America. 



Beckmannia erucaeformis (LINN.) HOST. Gram. Ill, 5(1805). 

 Phalaris erucaeformis LINN. Spec. 55(1753). 

 Cynosurus erucaeformis AIT. Hort. Kew. I, 105 (1789). 

 Paspalum aristatum MOENCH, Meth. 196 (1794). 

 Beckmannia erucoides BEAUV. Agr. 13(1812). 

 Bruchmannia erucaeformis NUTT. Gen. I, 48 (1818). 

 ? Beckmannia erucaeformis var. uniflora SCRIBN. 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 628; Webb., Fl. Neb. 107; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 171; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 176; Wats., Fl. Calif. II, 264; Coult., Fl. 

 Colo. 403; Vas., Agr. Grasses U. S. 24; Engl. Hackel, Nat. Pflanz. II, 2, 60; 

 Led., Fl. Ross. II, 453; Richt., PL Eur. I, 67; Trautv., Fl. Sib. 144; Wats., 

 King Exp. 393; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 295. 



S. Europe and the Orient to Caucasus, Siberia and 

 Dahuria. 



North America: Iowa, Minn., Neb., Dak. to Calif., 

 Oregon, Wash., Brit. Col. ; N. to L. Misstassini, Man. 



Minn, valley: S. W. and W. districts; near edges of 

 ponds; local or rare. 



HERB. : Sheldon 1260, Lake Benton; MacM. and Sheld. 

 8, Brainerd; Leiberg 102, Pipestone quarry; MacM. 21, Morton. 



