308 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Cerasus bwealis MICHX. Fl. Bor.-Am. I, 286 (1803). 

 Prunus borealis POIR. Enc. Meth. V, 674 (1804). 

 P. persidfolia DESF. Hist. Arb. II, 205 (1809). 

 Cerasus persicifolia LOISEL. Nouv. Duham. V. 9 (1814). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 152; Britt., Fl. N. J. 92; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 48; Chap., Fl. S. St. 120; Coult., Fl. Colo. 77; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 

 125; Wats., Bibl, Ind. I, 306; Sarg.. N. Am. Silva, IV, 35. 



North America: Newf., N. S., N. Br. to Man., Brit. 

 Col. and Coast range; N. to Hudson Bay; S. to N. Eng., N. J. 

 and nits, of N. Car.; W. to Minn., Colo., Tenn. and Kan. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; in dry woods, hillsides 

 and river banks; N. E. and E. ; N. edge. 



HERB. : Ballard 347, Helena, Scott Co. ; Bollard 156, 

 Chaska; Sheldon 658, Waseca; Bailey 169, Vermilion lake; Bailey 

 351, Mud river; Herrick 83, Minneapolis; Sandberg 152, Red 

 Wing; Herb. Moyer 250, Montevideo. 



L1I. LEGUMINOSAE. Pulse Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI 1253 (1840); Lindl. Veg. King. 544 (m6)-Fabaceae; 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 434 (1865); Baillon, Hist. PI II, 21 (1869, 

 1870); Taubert in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 70 (1891). 



Genera: 400 ; cosmopolitan, except in far antarctic 

 islands and rare in New Zealand; sub-family Mimosoideae cen- 

 ters in tropical America; sub-family Caesalpinioideae, in Brazil; 

 ' Papilionatae in the steppes of Asia where there are 1250 species 

 of Astragalus ( Tragacant?ia) alone. Fossil genera; 6 doubtful; 

 1 described; Tertiary and Quaternary. 



Species: 7500 , 80 per cent. +, in the Papilionatae; all 

 regions of the earth. 



ACUANIA MED. Theod. Sp. Pg. 62 (1786). 



Desman thus WILLD. Spec. IV, 1044 (1805) in part. 

 Darlingtonia DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. 1, IV, 97 (1824). 

 Baillon, Hist. PI. II, 67; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL I, 592; Durand, 

 / Ind. Gen. Plian. 109; O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. 1, 158; Engler and Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanz. 3, III, 117 (Taubert). 



Living species: 10; N. and S. America; 1 sp. around 

 the world in tropical regions. North America, 8-9; W. Tex., 

 8; E. Sts., 2; S. Sts., 1; PL Wheel., 2; mostly subtropical. 



Acuania illinoensis (Micnx.) OK. Rev. Gen. I, 158 (1891). 

 Mimosa illinoensis MICHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 254 (1803). 

 Acacia brachyloba WILLD. Spec. IV, 1071 (1805). 

 Darlingtonia brachyloba DC. Mem. Leg. 427 (1824). 

 D. brevifolia KAF. N. Fl. I, 42 (1836). 



Desmantlius brachylobus BENTH. Hook. Journ. Bot. IV, 358 (1842). 

 D. illinoensis MAcM. MSS. (1889). 



