LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 281 



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

 Eng. , N. ,T. and N. Car. ; W. to Minn. , Neb. , Ky. , Mo. and to 

 San Francisco mts. of Arizona. 



Minn, valley: Throughout, but infrequent far W. ; 

 woods and waste places along streams. 



HERB. : Taylor 273, Janesville; Sheldon 461, Madison 

 Lake; Sheldon 53, Elysian; Taylor 804, Glenwood; Sheldon 856, 

 Sleepy Eye; Bollard 83, Chaska; Kassube 86, Minneapolis; 

 Sandberg 192, Goodhue Co. ; Herb. Sheld. 1881, Minneapolis. 



LI. ROSACEAE. Rose Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 1240 (1840); Chrysobalaneae Endl. Gen. PI. 1251; 

 Amygdaleae, Endl. Gen. PL 1250; Pomaceae Endl. Gen. PI. 1236 (1840); Dru- 

 paceae, Sanguisorbaceae Lindl. Veg. King. 559, 561 (1846); Benth. and 

 Hook. Gen. PI I, 600 (1865); Baillon, Hist. PI. I, 345 (1869); Focke, in Engler 

 and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 1 (1888). 



Genera: 70 ; 90 (Pocke); 71 (B. and H.); 66 (Baillon); 

 cosmopolitan. 



Species: 1200-1500; two great distributional regions: 

 (1) Pacific coast and border regions; (2) N. temperate zone. 

 Fossil species known from the Tertiary and Recent and even 

 from Upper Cretaceous of N. America, sparingly. 



OPUL ASTER MEDIC. Beitr. Pflanzenanat. II, 109 (1799). 

 Physocarpos CAMBESS. Ann. Sci. Nat. I, 385 (1824). 

 Neillia DON, Prodr. Nep. 228 (1825). 

 Adenileima BL. Bij. 1121 (1826). 

 Epicostorus RAF. Atl. Jour. 144 (1832), 

 Physocarpa RAF. Fl. Tell. (1836). 

 Stephanandra SIEB. ET Zucc. Abh. Munch. Akad. Ill, 739 



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Baillon, Hist. PI. I, 470, 471: Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 612; Du- 

 rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 112;* Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 14 

 (Focke); O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Nachtr. 949; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 674. 



Living species: 9, in three distinct sections (Neillia, 

 Physocarpos and Stephanandra)', North America; N. Asia to 

 Himalayas; S. China and Japan. North America, 2 sp.; 1, 

 Rocky mts. and Calif.; 1, E. Sts. 



Fossil species: 0. opulifolius (Linn.) in Tertiary of 

 Siberia; also, Alaska? Hungary? (Heer, Unger). 



Opulaster opulifolius (LiNN.) OK. Rev. Gen. II, 949 (1891). 

 Spiraea opulifolia LINN. Spec. 489 (1753). 

 8. caroliniana MARSH. Arbust. Amer. 146 (1785). 

 Opulaster bullatus MED. Pflanzenanat. II, 309 (1799) 

 Physocarpos opulifolius RAF. N. Fl. Ill, 73, 74 (1836' 

 Neillia opulifolia B. and H. Gen. PI. I, 612 (1865). 



