LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PROUUCING PLANTS. 285 



North America: Ontario to Lake Huron; N. Y. and 

 Penn. to N. Car. and C. Alab. ; W. to Minn., Neb., Kan., Ark., 

 Ind. Terr., La. and W. Tex. 



Minn, valley: S. central district and perhaps through- 

 out the forest region; Leaf hills? woods and streams. 



HERB. : Sheldon 322, Smith's Mills, Blue Earth Co. ; 

 Bollard 345, Helena, Scott Co. ; Sheldon 659, Waseca; Sandberg 

 188, Red Wing; Herb. Wickersheim 48, Mankato. 



AMEL1NCHIER MEDIC. Phil. Bot. I, 135, 155 (1789). 



Aronia PERS. Syn. II, 39 (1807) in part. 



Baillon, Hist. PI. I, 477; Benth. and HOOK:., Gen. PI I, 628; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 115; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 671; Engler and Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanz. 3, III, 26 (Focke); Sargent, N. Am. Silva IV, 125. 



Living species: 6, closely related; N. temperate 

 regions. Russia, 1; Europe, 1; North America, 3; E. Sts., 2; 

 Canada, 3; S. Sts., 1-2; Rocky mts., 1; Calif., 3; PI. King., 1; 

 PI. Wheel., 1; also, Mexico 1 other? Japan, 1; Orient, 1. 



Fossil species: Tertiary, Florissant, Colo. (Lesquer- 

 eaux, Newberry}; Europe, (Ettinghausen), 4-5. 



Amelanchier alnifolia NUTT. Journ. Acad. Phil. VII, 22 

 (1835). 



Pirus sanguinea PURSH, Fl. Am. 340 (1814). 



Aronia alnifolia NUTT. Gen. I, 306 (1818). 



Pirus alnifolia SPKENG. Syst. II, 509 (1825). 



Amelanchier ovalis var. semiintegrifolia HOOK. Fl. Bor.-Amer. I, 

 202 (1833). 



A. florida LINDL. Bot. Reg. 1589 (1835). 



A. canadensis var. alnifolia T. and G. Fl. I, 473 (1838). 



A. canadensis var. pumila T. and G. Fl. I, 474 (1838). 



A. pumila ROEM. Syn. Monog. Ill, 145 (1847). 



A. canadensis var. oblongifolia BENTH. PI. Hartw. 309 (1846). 



A. diversifolia var. alnifolia TOKB. Frm. Rep. 89 (1858). 



A. canadensis ANDERSON, Cat. PL Nev. 120 ( ). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 167; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 148, 522; 

 Webb., Fl. Neb. 127; Upham, Fl. Minn. 53; Coult., Fl. Colo. 89; Brew, 

 and Wats., Fl. Calif. I, 190; Greene, Fl. Fran. 52; Roth., Wheel, Exp. 116; 

 Wats., King Exp. 92; Sarg., N. Am. Silva IV, 131. 



North America: N. Mich., Minn., Neb. to Brit. Col., 

 Vancouver, Charlotte Isls. and Peace river reg. ; S. to Calif. ; 

 S. in mts. to Colo, and Arizona; N. to Alaska and N. lat. 62 

 45'. 



Minn, valley: N. E. dislrict; thickets and banks of 

 streams. 



Amelanchier canadensis (LiNN.) MEDIC. Gesch. Bot. 79 

 (1783). 



Mespilus canadensis LINN. Spec. 478 (1753). 



