154 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY 



244, Minneapolis; Hammond 44, Lake City; Herb. Sheld. 1895, 

 Hennepin Co. ; Herb. Wickersheim 125, Idlewild, Lincoln Co. ; 

 Herb. Moyer 239, Chippewa valley. 



Unifolium racemosnm (LINN.) BRITT. Torr. Bull. (1888). 

 Convallaria racemosa LINN. Spec. 315 (1753). 

 Smilacina racemosa DESF. ADD. Mus. IX, 52 (1807). 

 Smilacina ciliata PUBSH, Fl. Am. 232 (1814). 

 Majanthemum racemosum LINK, Enum. I. 343 (1821). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 525: Britt.,Fl. N. J. 240; Mac.,Fl. 

 Can. II, 31; Upham,Fl. Minn. 145; Chap., Fl. S. St. 481; Engl., Nat.Pflanz. 

 II, 5, 79; Wats., King Exp. 345; Cov., Fl. Ark. 224. 



North America: N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont. to Man. and 

 Saskatchewan; S. to N. Eng., N. J. and S. Car.; W. to Minn., 

 E. Kan. and Ark. S. to northern Mexico ? 



Minn, valley: Forest district, and probably through- 

 out; moist woods and banks of streams and lakes. 



HERB. : Sheldon 904, Sleepy Eye; Bollard 77, Chaska; 

 Sheldon 136, Madison Lake, Blue Earth Co.; Taylor ^,Elysian; 

 Taylor 135, Janesville; Holzinger 283, Winona Co.; Kassube 

 243, Minneapolis; Sandberg 579, Cannon Falls; Hammond 48, 

 Lake City; Herb, tiheld. 1892, Minneapolis; Herb Wickersheim 

 124, Mankato. 



POLYGONATUM ADANS. Fam. II, 54 (1763). 

 Evallaria NECK. Elem, III, 189 (1790). 

 Axillaria RAF. Jour. Phys. LXXXIX, 261 (1819). 

 Campydorum SALISB. Gen. PI. Fragm. 64 (1822?). 

 Periballanthus FRANCH. ET SAV. ex Dur. 1. c. (1888). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 768; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 421; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, V, 80 (Engler); Schenck, Palaeophyt. 

 362. 



Living species : 23; temperate N. hemisphere. Europe, 



6; Russia, 7; Russian Europe, 4; N. America, 2-3; E. Sts., 2; 

 Canada, 2; S. Sts., 2; Rocky mts., 1. 



Polygonatum coin unit at um (SCHULT.) DIETR. Ott. Gartenz. 



222 (1835). 



Convallaria canaliculata WILLD. Spec. IV (1805). 

 ? Polygonatum canaliculatum PURSH, Fl. Am. 235 (1814). 

 Convallaria commutata SCHULT. Syst. VII, 1671 (1830). 

 P. giganteum DIETR. Ott. Gartenz. 322 (1835). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 525; Britt., Fl. N. J. 240; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 146; Webb., Fl. Neb. 108; Mac., Fl. Can. II. 28; Coult., Fl. Colo. 

 350; Wats., King Exp. 346; Cov., Fl. Ark. 224. 



North America: W. Ont. to Saskatchewan; S. to N. 

 Eng., N. J. and Va. ; W. to Mont., Ark. and N. Mex. 



