METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Living species: 2; North America: to W. Indies and U, 

 S. of Colombia, 1; Japan, warmer regions of Australia and 

 Asia to Caspian sea, 1. 



Fossil species: 5-6; Upper Cretaceous, Greenland 

 (Heer)-, S. Europe (Ettinghausen) Oligocene and Neocene. 



Nelumbo nelumbo (LiNN.) MACM. Torr. Bull. XIX (1891) 

 Nymphaea nelumbo var. B. LINN. Spec. 511 (1753). 

 Nelumbium luteum WILLD. Spec. II, 1259 (1799). 

 Nelumbo lutea PERS. Syst. (Ifc05). 

 Cyamus pentapetalus PURSH, Fl. Am. 393 (1814). 

 Cyamus lutea NUTT. Gen. II, 25 (1M8). 

 Nelumbium codophyllum RAF. Fl. Lud. 22 (1817). 

 Nelumbium jamaicense DC. Syst. II, 47 (1821). 



Wats, arid Coult.. Gray's Man. 6 ed. 55; Britt., Fl. N. J. 43; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 117; Chap.,Fl. S. St. 18; Uphim, Fl. Minn. 22; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 

 31, 484; Gris., Fl. W. I ; Engl. Caspary, Nat. Pflanz. Ill, 2, 5; Coult. Fl. 

 Tex. 11; Cov., Fl. Ark. 164; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 36. 

 U. S. of Colombia; Jamaica. 



North America: Ont. to N. Eng. and N. J.; Fla.; W. 

 to Mich., Minn., Neb. and Tex. on the Rio Grande. 



Minn, valley: Reported at Mendota and Halstead's 

 bay, Lake Minne tonka; local, N. E. 



HERB.: Holzinger 12, Fountain City; Sandberg 44, 

 Red Wing. 



BRASENIA SCHREB. Gen. PL 372 (1774). 

 Ixodia SOLAND. Mss. ex Endl. Gen. 

 Hydropeltis L. C. RICH. Ann. Mus. XVII, 230 (1811). 

 Baillon, Hist. PL III, 102; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 46; Engler 

 and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. (Caspary) 3, II, 6; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 10; 

 Gray, III. Gen. 95; Schenck, Palaeophyt 509 isub Nymphaeites ?). 



Living species: 1. In all regions outside of Europe 

 and arctic or subarctic zones. Asia, Africa, Oceanica. America. 

 Fossil species: A number of leaves are referred to 

 the Nymphaeaceae by different authors; some of which doubt- 

 less bear affinities with Brasenia. See Caspary, Monog. Nymph, 

 and Saporta, Untersuchungen. Dawson (Can. Geol. Surv.) 

 reports Brasenia from the Eocene of Canada. It doubtless 

 dates back to the Cretaceous or Jurassic. 



Brasenia peltata (THUNB.) PURSH, Fl. Am. 389 (1814). 



Menyanthes peltata et nymphoides THUNB. Nov. Act. Ups. VII, 

 142 (1746). 



Hydropeltis purpurea MICHX. Fl. N. Am. I, 324 (1803). 

 Brasenia hydropeltis MUHL. Cat. 55 (1813). 

 Limnanthemum peltatum GRISEB. Gent. 348 (1839). 

 Brasenia purpurea CASP. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II, 256 (1850). 

 Brasenia nymphoides BAILL. Hist. PI. Ill, 82 (1872). 





