LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 215 



Euxolus RA-F. Fl. Tell. 42 (1836). 



Peiitreas RAF. 1. c. (1836). 



Albersia KUNTH, Fl. Berol. ed. 2, 144 (1838). 



Mengrea SCHAUER, PI. Meyen 405 (1842?). 



Scleropus SCHRAD. Ind. Gott. (1835). 



Baillon, Sis*. PI. IX, 200, part; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 28; 

 Durand, Ind. Gen. Pkan. 333. 



Living species: 50 ; all warmer and tropical regions. 

 Europe, 8; Russia, 8; Russian Europe, 7; North America, 15; 

 S. Sts., 4; E. Sts., 3; Rocky mts., 5; California, 9; PL Wheel., 

 6; PI. King, 3; Canada, 5 introduced. 



A mar an thus blitoides S. WATS. Proc. Am. Acad. XII, 



273 (1878). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 428; Webb., Fl. Neb. 114; Mac , 

 Fl. Can. I, 397; Coult., Fl. Colo. 305; Wats., Fl. Calif. II, 41; Upham, Fl. 

 Minn. 118; Greene, Fl. Fran. 163. 



North America: Mex. to N. Nev., Iowa and Minn.; 

 naturalized in Ont. and on Pac. coast. 



Minn, valley: W. districts and E. to Mankato; road- 

 sides and waste places. 



HERB.: Sheldon 1541, Lake Benton ; Taylor 877 1 

 Glenwood. 



XXXV. PHYTOLACCACEAE. Pokeweed 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 310 (1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL 1, 858 

 (1865); III, 78 (1880); Heimerl, Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I &, 1 

 (1889). 



Genera: 23; tropical and warmer regions. 50 per 

 cent, tropical American. 



Species: 85 ; principally in the tropics. 



PHYTOLACCA LINN. Gen. 384 (1737). 



Phytolaca and Sarcoca RAF. Fl. Tell. 627 (1836). 

 Pircunia MOQ. DC. Prodr. xm, II, 29 (1849). 



Baillon, Hist. PL IV, 50; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 84; Durand, 



Ind. Gen. Phan. 340: Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I 6, 10 (Heimerl). 



Living species: 11; widely distributed, but absent 



from Australia. America, 6; Old World, 5; U. S., 1; Europe 



and Russia, 1. 



Phytolacca decandra LINN. Spec. 631 (1753). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 436; Britt, Fl. N J. 208; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 116: Chap., Fl. S. St. 375; Webb., Fl. Neb. 114; Nym., Fl. Eur.; 

 Mac., Fl. Can. I, 405; Cov., Fl. Ark. 215; Engl. Heimerl, Nat. Pflanz. Ill, 

 1, 8-10. 



