204 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; prairie district, saline or 

 alkaline marshes. 



HERB.: Sheldon 1569, Lake Benton; Bollard 286, Jor- 

 dan, Scott Co. ; Herrick 261, Minneapolis; Bailey 1, Vermilion 

 lake; Herrick 262, Minneapolis; Hammond 36, Lake City; Herb. 

 Moyer 216, Montevideo. 



Rumex persicarioides LINN. Spec. 335 (1753). 



H. anthoxanthum MURR. Prodr. Gott. 52 (1770). 

 E. aureus WITH. A rr. 356 (1776). 

 R. maritimus Auct. Amer. 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 439; Britt., Fl. N. J. 211; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 112; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 417; Upham, Fl. Minn. 121; Chap., Fl. S. 

 St. 386; Coult., Fl. Colo. 318; Wats. Fl. Calif. II, 9; Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 

 348; Nym., Fl. Eur.; Herd., Fl. Eur. Russ. 110; Wats., King Exp. 314; 

 Cov., Fl. Ark. 216; Led., Fl. Ross. Ill, 500; Hart., Fl. Scand. I, 338; Tre- 

 lease, Rev. Rum. 93; Greene, Fl. Fran. 139. 



Europe: Scand. and Brit, to Servia and Mid. Russ. 



North America: N. Br., Ont., Man., Saskatchewan to 

 Hudson Bay and Rocky mts. ; S., E. of Sierras, to N. Mex., 

 and E. to Atl. coast and N. Car. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; marshy or alkaline and 

 saline localities. 



HERB.: Sheldon 1252, Lake Benton; Sheldon 758, Sleepy 

 Eye; Bollard 654, Chaska; Bollard 500, Prior's lake, Scott Co.; 

 Taylor 653, Minnesota lake; Oestlund 165, Minneapolis; Kos- 

 sube, 211, Minneapolis; Herrick 263, Minneapolis; Leiberg 52, 

 Blue Earth Co. 



POLYGONUM LINN. Gen. ed. V. 445 (1754). 

 Tephis ADANS. Fam. II, 276 (1763). 

 Lagunea LOUR. Fl. Cochinch. 220 (1790). 

 Tovara ADANS. Fam. II, 276 (1763). 

 Antenoron RAF. Fl. Lud. 28 (1817). 

 Ampelygonum LINDL. Bot. Reg. (1838). 

 Echinocaulos HASSK. Flora (1842). 

 ChylocaJyx HASSK. MSS. 



Thysanella A. GRAY, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 232 (1847). 

 Bilderdykia DUMORT, Flor. Belg. 18 (1827). 

 Pleuropterus TURCZ. Bull. Imp. Soc. Mosc. 587 (1848). 

 Beuth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 342; Schenck, 

 Palaeophyt. 490-491; Engl.-Damm., Nat. Pflanz. 3, I a, 25. 



Living species: 150; cosmopolitan; N. rather than S. 

 Europe, 31; Russia, 31; Russian Europe, 22; S. Sts., 18; Rocky 

 mts., 16; Canada, 29-31; California, 25; E. Sts., 21; PI. King, 

 11-12; PI. Wheel., 11; N. America and Mexico, 50. 



Fossil species: Tertiary, Spitzbergen (Heer)', Oen- 



