224 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Species in N. Eur. and N. Asia to Himalayas and 

 China; variety perhaps in Amurland and Baikal Siberia. 



North America: Ont. and N. Y. to N. J., Minn, and 

 Mo. 



Minn, valley: ' S. E. districts; rare; rocky or sandy 

 banks. 



HERB.: Holzingei- 39, Winona Co. 



Cerastium nutans RAF. Prec. Decouv. 36 (1814). 

 C. longipedunculatum MUHL. Cat. 47 (1813). 

 C. glutinosum NUTT. Gen. I, 291 (1818). 

 C.tenellum FENZL. Ann. Mus. Wien (1835). 



C. oblongifolium ANDERS. Cat. PI. Nev. 118 ( ). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 88; Coult., Fl. Colo. 33; Webb., Fl. 

 Neb. 114; Chap., Fl. S. St. 50; Brew, and Wats. Fl. Calif. I, 66; Britt., Fl. 

 N. J 63; Upham, Fl. Minn. 32; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 77; Both., Wheel. Exp. 71. 

 Wats., King Exp. 38; Cov., Fl. Ark. 168; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 100: Hart. Fl' 

 Scand. I, 2*9. 



North America: N. S., N. Br., Q. to Man., Hudson 

 Bay and Vancouver; S. to Vt.,N. J., Penn. and N. Car., Tenn. 

 and Ark.; W. to Colo., Minn., Neb., Utah, Washington; S. in 

 Rockies to Northern Mexico. 



Minn, valley: Forest district to Blue Earth Co. ; banks 

 of streams to Chippewa river; moist woods and meadows. 



HERB.: Sheldon 182, Eagle lake, Blue Earth Co.; 

 Taylor 68, Elysian; Sandberg 97, Vasa; Kassube 45, Minneapolis; 

 Holzinger 38, Winona Co. ; Leiberg 12, Blue Earth Co. ; Herb. 

 Moyer 40, Montevideo; Herb. Sheld. 1871, Ramsey Co. 



MOEHB1NGIA LINN. Gen. ed. II, 386 (1742). 



Englnr and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I 6, 84 (Pax); Baillon, Hist. PI. IX, 

 113; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 150; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 30; Gray, 

 111 Gen. II, 35. 



Living species: 20 ; colder regions of N. hemisphere. 



Moehringia lateriflora (LiNN.) FENZL. Ann. Mus. Wien, I, 



18, 38 (1835). 



Arenaria lateriflora LTNN. Spec. 423 (1753). 



A. buxifolia Pom. Enc. Meth. VI, 362 (1804). 



Stellaria Mflora PURSH, Fl. Am. 317 (1814) 



Arenaria pennsylvanica MUHL. Ind. Fl. Lancaster, 169 (1817). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 86; Britt., Fl. N. J. 64; Webb.,Fl. 

 Neb. 114; Coult., Fl. Colo.36; Upham, Fl. Minn. 32; Brew, and Wats., Fl. 

 Calif. I, 70; Regel, Fl. Ost.-Sib.I, 376; Trautv., Fl. Sib. 35; Mac. Fl. Can. 

 I, 73, 497; Miyabe, Fl. Kur.221; Engl. Pax, Nat. Pflanz. 3, I, 84; Both., 

 Wheel. Exp. 72; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 96; Hart.. Fl. Scand. I, 242; Rothr., 

 Alask. 444. 



Kamtschatka; Dahuria; Baikal Sib.; Kurile Isls. to 

 Scandinavia. 



