LIST OP HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 251 



Japan and Manchuria. 



North America: N. Br., Q., Ont. to N. Y., N. J., 

 Penn. and S. Car. W. to Ohio, Minn. , Neb. and Man. 



Minn, valley: Throughout in deep woodland, espec- 

 ially along streams and near lakes. 



HERB. Sheldon 802, Sigel township, Brown Co. ; Tay- 

 lor S90, Glen wood; Sheldon 142, Madison Lake; Sheldon 54, 

 Elysian; Bollard 76, Chaska; Kassube 18, Minneapolis ;<Leiberg 

 6, Blue Earth Co. ; Holzinger 11, Winona Co. ; Sandberg 42, Red 

 Wing; Herb. Sheld. 1714, Minneapolis; ^82,Ramsey Co. ; Herb. 

 Wickersheim 10, Ash lake, Lincoln Co. ; Herb. Moyer 24, Carl- 

 ton lake, Chippewa Co. 



XLI1I. MENISPERMACEAE. Moon-Seed 

 Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 825 (1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 30(1862); 

 Prantl, Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, II, 78 (1888). 



Genera: 56-58 living; 5-6 extinct; tropics and spar- 

 ingly without, especially in the S. hemisphere; in the Tertiary 

 widely distributed over the N. hemisphere. 



Species: 300 (Miers)\ 80 (B. and H.); perhaps 150 dis 

 tinct; Cretaceous and Tertiary forms abundant in N. America 

 and Tertiary forms in Europe, where there are now few living 

 representatives. 



MENISPERMUM LINN. Gen. 107 (1737). 



Trilophos FISCH. Ann. Sci. Nat. (1835). 

 fSelwynnia F. MULL. Fragm. IV, 153 (1861?). 



Baillon, Hist. PI. Ill, 33; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 37, 962; Du- 

 rand, Ind Gen. Phan. 8; Gray, III, Gen. I, 73; Schenck, Paleophyt. 500. 



Living species: 3. Japan, 1; Centr. and E. Asia, 1; 

 North American Atl. forest region, 1. 



Fossil species: Menisper miles (Lesquerx.) about 10 

 species from the Dakota, Cretaceous (upper) and 5-6, Eocene* 

 North America. 



Menisperrtium canadense LINN. Spec. 340 (1753). 

 Cissampelos smilacina LINN. Spec. 2 ed. 1473 (1762). 

 M. angulatum MOENCH, Meth. 277 (1794). 

 M. smilacinum DC. Syst. I, 541 (1818). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 51; Britt., Fl. N. J. 42; Webb. 

 Fl. Neb. 115: Upham, Fl. Minn. 21; Chap., Fl. S. St. 16; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 

 29; Cov., Fl. Ark. 163: Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 32. 



North America: Q., Ont. and Man.; N. U. S. to N. 

 Eng., N. J and N. Car.? W. to Dak., Minn., Neb. and Ark. 



