LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 211 



Asia; Siberia Baikal and Transbaikal. 



North America: Newf., N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont. to Sas- 

 katchewan and Minn.; S. to Fla., Ark., Kan., Neb. and Dak. 



Minn, valley: Forest district to Cottonwood valley; in- 

 frequent W. ; abundant E. ; low places and thickets. 



HERB. : Sheldon 209, Lake Washington, Blue Earth Co. ; 

 Ballard 657, Waconia; Sheldon 209a, Madison Lake, Blue Earth 

 Co. ; Ballard 498, Prior's lake, Scott Co. ; Ballard 538, Cleary's 

 lake, Scott Co. ; Ballard 723, Benton, Carver Co. ; Roberts 117, 

 Stewart river; Kassube 209, Minneapolis; Her rick 260, Minne- 

 apolis; Lestlund 163, Minneapolis. 



XXXIII. CHENOPODIACEAE. Goosefoot 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 292 (1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 43 

 (1880); Moquin-Tandon, DC. Prcdr. xiii, II, 41(1849) Salsolaceae; Volkens 

 in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I a, 36 (1892). 



Genera: 80; cosmopolitan; many of them composed of 

 halophytes or xerophytes; few in tropics or polar regions. 



Species: 550 ; many widely distributed. 



CHENOPODIUM LINN. Gen. 191 (1737). 



Oligandra LESS. Linn. -IX, 199 (1835). 



Lipandra MOQ. Chen. En. 19 (1840). 



Gandriloa STEUD. Norn. ed. 2 (1841). 



Oligaiithera ENDL. Gen. Suppl. I, 1377 (1843). 



Ambrina SPACH, Suit. Buff. V, 295 (1836). 



Botrydium SPACH, Suit. Buff. V, 298 (1836). 



Teloxys MOQ. Ann. Sci. Nat. 2, I, 129 (1834). 



Blitum LINN. Gen. 14 (1737). 



Morocarpus MOENCH, Meth. 342 (1794). 



Oxybasis KAR. and KIR. Bull. Imp. Soc. Mosc. 738 (1841). 



Agathophyton MOQ. Ann. Sci. Nat. 2, 1, 191 (1834). 



Orthosporum NEES, Gen. Germ. Monochl. n 58 (1835). 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. IX, 166; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 51; Du- 

 rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 336; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 491. 



Living species: 50; cosmopolitan; Europe, 13; Rus- 

 sia, 15; Russian Europe, 12; California, 11-13; E. Sts., 5; Can- 

 ada, 5; Rocky mts., 8; S. Sts., 2; PL King, 4; PL Wheel., 6; 

 interior regions, 8-9. 



Chenopodium rubrum LINN. Spec. 219 (1753). 

 Blitum niaritimum NUTT. Gen. Add. (1818). 

 B. rubrum REICHB. Fl. Germ. Exc. 582 (1832). 

 B. polymorphum C. A. MEY. Fl. Alt. I, 13 (1829). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 432; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 400; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 207; Upham, Fl. Minn. 117 and Suppl. Minn. 86; Coult., Fl. Colo. 



