LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 283 



S. and Mid. Russ. to Hungary; all Siberia and Man- 

 churia; China; intro. in W. Europe. 



North America: Newf., N. S. to Rocky mts.; N. on 

 Mackenzie to Arctic sea; Alaska; S. to N. Eng., N. J. and Ga.; 

 W. to Minn., Mo. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; wet places, edges of 

 prairie sloughs and forest-meadows. 



HERB. : Ballard 508, Prior's lake, Scott Co. ; Bollard 

 721, Benton, Carver Co.; Ballard 877, Waconia; Taylor 866, 

 Glenwood; Sheldon 356, Smith's Mills, Blue Earth Co.; Taylor 

 719, Minnesota lake; Sheldon 920, Sleepy Eye; Sheldon 615, 

 Wilton, Waseca Co. ; Herrick 87, Minneapolis ; Sandberg 157, 

 Red Wing; Kassube 64, Minneapolis; Bailey 95, Vermilion lake; 

 Herb. Moyer 69, Chippewa Co. 



PIRUS LINN. Gen. 145 (1737). 



Sorbus LINN. Gen. 144 (1737). 



Malus KUPP. Fl. Jen. ed. 3, 141 (1745). 



Cydonia, Malus, Sorbus, Pirus TOURN. Inst. 628, seq. (1700). 



Torminalis, Lazarolus, Aucuparia and Chamaemespilus 

 MEDIC. Phil. Bot. I, 134-138 (1789). 



Pirophorum, Apiropkorum NECK. Elem. II, 72 (1790). 



Mali iiia MEDIC. Gesch. Bot. 81 (1793). 



Azarolus BORKH. Handb. Forst. Bot. II, 1224 (1800). 



Aronia PERS. Syn. II, 39 (1807) excl. Amelanchier. 



Aria HOST. Fl. Austr. II, 7 (1831). 



Cormus SPACH, Suit. Buff. II, 96 (1834). 



Torminaria ROEM. Syn. Monog. Ill, 101 (1847). 



Micromeles DECNE. Nouv. Arch. Mus. X, 168 (1861). 



Chloromeles DECNE. Fl. Serr. XXIII, 156 ( ). 



Baillon, Hist. PL I, 475; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI I, 626: Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 114: Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 22 (Focke); 

 Schenck, Paleophyt. 671; Sargent, N. Am. SilvaLV, 67. 



Living species: 50-60 or less; temperate N. hemi- 

 sphere, mts. of tropical India. Russia, 20; Himalayas, 22; 

 Europe, 15; Russian Europe, 11; N. America, 7; Canada, 6; E. 

 Sts., 5; S. Sts., 4; Mid. Calif., 1; Rocky mts., 1; PI. King, 1. 



Fossil species: Several; Tertiary of Spitzbergen and 

 Greenland (Heer. ); Japan (Nathorst)', Bilin (Ettinghausen)', 

 Cretaceous, Kansas (Newberry)-, Europe (Unger)-, Tuscany 

 (Gaud.)-, Quaternary travertines, Kutschlin (Ettinghausen and 

 Engler). 



Pirus sambucifolia CHAM, and SCHLECHT. Linn. II, 36 

 (1827). 



Sorbus aucuparia var. B. MICHX. Fl. Bor.-Am. I, 290 (1803). 

 S. aucuparia SCHRANK, PI. Labr. 25 (1830?) in part. 



