178 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Scoria minima (MARSH.). 



Juglans alba-minima MARSH. Arbust. Amer. 68 (1785). 

 J. angustifolia LAM. Enc. Meth. IV, 504 (1797). 

 J. amara MICHX. Sylv. I, 177 (1810). 

 Hicoria amara RAF. Fl. Lud. 109 (1817). 

 Carya amara NUTT. Gen. II. 222 (1818 1. 

 Hicoria minima BRITT. Torr. Bull. XV, (1888). 

 Wats, and Goult., Gray's Man. 6 ed.; Upham, Fl. Minn. 125. 



Minn, valley: Forest district, throughout; damp 

 woods and banks of streams. 



HERB. : Sheldon 312, Madison Lake, Blue Earth Co. ; 

 Bollard 88, Chaska; Sheldon 814, Sigel township, Brown Co.; 

 Herrick 274, Minnetonka; Leiberg 59, Blue Earth Co. ; Holzinger 

 252, Winona Co. 



Scoria ovata (MILL.). 



Juglans ovata MILL. Diet. (1768). 

 ?J. squamosa LAM. Enc. Meth. IV, 504(1797). 

 J. compressa GAERTN. Fruct. II, 50 (1791). 

 /. alba MICHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 193 (1803). 

 Carya microcarpa NUTT. Gen. II, 221 (1818). 

 C. alba NUTT. Gen. II, 221 (1818). 

 Hicoria ovata BRITT. Torr. Bull. XV, (1888). 



Wats, and Goult., Gray's Man. 6ed. 468; Mac. Fl. Can. I, 433: Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 110; Chap., Fl. S. St. 418; Cov., Fl. Ark. 219; Engl., Nat. Pflanz. 

 Ill, 1, 25; Upham, Fl. Minn. 125. 



North America: N. of Lake Erie and to St. Clair 

 river; N. Eng., N. J. to Fla. ; W. to Minn., Neb,, Kan. and N. 



Mex. 



Minn, valley: Reported from the S. E. edge; rich 



woodland. 

 XXIII. MYRICACEAE. Sweet-Gale Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 270 (1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 400 

 (1880); Engler, in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I, 26 (1887). 



Genera: 1; temperate and warmer regions except 

 Australia. Tertiary distribution principally European and N. 

 American to Greenland; and Asia to Saghalin. 

 Species: 35 ; fossil sp. very numerous. 



MYRICA LINN. Gen. 744 (1737). 



Nageia GAEKTN. Fruct. I, 191 (1788 -. 

 Morella LOTJR. Cochinch, 548 (1790). 

 Comptonia BANKS, Gaertn. Fruct. II, 58 t. 90(1791). 

 Faya WEBB. Phyt. Can. IV, 272 (1847). 

 Gale SPACH, Suit. Buff. XI, 258 (1842). 



Baillon, Hist. Pi. VI, 259; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PLIII. 400; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 380; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3. I. 27 (Engler); 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 452. 



