240 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Siberia: A. wolf gang iana (Bess.) Trautv. PI. Sib. 

 Bor. 9= our plant? 



North America: Man., Mich., Ills, to Mo.; W. to Colo., 

 Mont., Saskatchewan, Brit. Col., Coast range, Mackenzie, 

 Alaska, beyond Arctic circle; alt. of 10,500 ft. in Colo. 



Minn, valley; Prairies and forest openings through- 

 out; most abundant E. and N. 



HERB. : Oestlund 2, Ramsey Co. ; Sandberg 2, Good- 

 hue Co.; Kassube 2, Minneapolis; Taylor 745, Glen wood; Shel- 

 don 1188, New Ulm; Herb. Wickersheim 5, Idle wild; Herb. 

 Univ. Hammond 7, Lake City; Hei b. Sheldon 1685, Minneapolis; 

 Sheldon 1827, St. Paul; Herb. Moyer 2, Montevideo. 



CLEMATIS LINN. Gen. 460 (1737). 

 Atragene LINN. Gen. 695 (1737). 

 Navarelia DC. Syst. Veg. I, 187 (1818). 

 Cheiropsis DC. 1. c. (1818). 

 OTeclatis SPACH, Suit. Buff. VII, 257 (1839). 

 Viorna PERS. Syn. I (1805). 

 Viticella MOENCH, Meth. (1794). 

 Flammula DC. 1. c. (1818). 



Baillon, Hist. PL I, 87; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 3: Engler and 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, II, 62; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 1: O. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PL I, 2;'Schenck, Paleophyt. 508; Gray, III. Gen. I, 13, 15. 



Species: 200+ described; 66 (Kuntze); probably 

 175; most temperate and tropical regions. Russia, 12; 

 Europe, 8; European Russia, 5; N. America, 25; W. Tex., 5; 

 Calif., 4; S. Sts., 9; E. Sts., 8; R. mts., 5; Can., 4; PL Wheel., 

 4-5; PI. King, 3. 



Fossil species: Pliocene or Quaternary of Japan 

 (Nathorst)', Tertiary of Europe (Ettinghausen, Heer, A. Br~). 



Clematis virginiana LINN. Amoen. 4, 275 (1755). 



Clematis cordata PURSH, Fl. Am. I, 384 (1814). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 35; Chap., Fl. So. St. 4; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 117; Britt., Fl. N. J. 33; Upham, Fl. Minn. 17; Mac., Fl. Can. 1, 11. 

 Cov., Fl. Ark. 162; Wats., Bibl. Ind I, 11. 



North America: N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont. to L. Winni- 

 peg; S. in E. U. S. to Fla. and La.; W. to E. Neb., Ark. and N. 

 Tex. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; Fort Snelling; Shakopee; 

 New Ulm; Morton; Glenwood; Swedes Forest; Morris; river 

 banks, with underbrush. 



HERB.: Taylor 839, Glenwood; Sheldon 939, Redwood 

 Falls; Bollard 628, Chaska; Bollard 226, Jordan; Sheldon 730. 

 Sleepy Eye; Bollard 750, Waconia; Herrick 1, Minneapolis; 



