374 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Fl. Minn. 121; Coult., Fl. Colo. 321; Wats., King Exp. 318; Roth., Wheel 

 Exp. 238. 



North America: Isle of Orleans, Man., L. Nipigon 

 and Assiniboia to Rocky mts. ; N. to L. Athabasca and 56 N. 

 lat. to 69 N. lat. in Rockies; Hudson Bay and Arctic circle; S. 

 to Mon., Colo., Utah and E. to Minn, and Dak. 



Minn, valley: Local on the upper Pomme des Terres 

 river; thickets, riverbanks and edges of sloughs. 



LXXVl. LYTHRACEAE. Loosestrife Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI 1198 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. 

 I, 773 (1862-1867): Baillon, Hist. PI. VI, 426 (1877): Koehne, in Engler and 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, VII, 8 (1892). 



Genera: 22; tropical regions, sparingly extended into 

 the N. and 6. temperate zones; principally in W. hemisphere. 

 Species: 360; 1-2 doubtful fossils from Pliocene. 



LYTHRUM LINN. Gen. 387 (1737). 

 Salicaria TOURN. Inst. 253 (1700). 

 Anisotes LINDL. Intr. Nat. Syst. ed. II, 101 (1835). 

 Pentaglossum FORSK. Fl. Aeg. Arab. 11 (1775). 

 Mozula KAF. Jour. Phys. LXXXTX, 96 (1819). 

 Pythagorea KAF. Jour. Phys. LXXXIX, 96 (1819). 

 Bergenia NECK. Elem. (1790). 



Middendorfia TRAUTV. ex Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 139(1888). 

 Baillon, Hist. PL VI, 446; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. I, 779; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 139; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, VII, 8 (Koehne). 



Living species: 23: cosmopolitan. Europe, 10; Asia, 

 10; Russia, 9; Russian Europe, 7; North America, 4 or 5: W. 

 Tex., 3; California, 4; Rocky mts., 1; Canada, 2; S. Sts., 2; E. 

 Sts., 3; PL Wheel., 1; Africa, 8; all America, 12; Australia, 2. 



Lythrum alatiim PURSH, FL Am. 334 (1814). 

 Pythaqorea alata RAF. Journ. Phys. 96 (1819). 

 Lythrum kennedyanum HBK. Nov. Gen. et. Spec. VI, 194 (1823). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 185; Britt., Fl. N. J. 107; Mac., Fl. 

 Oan. I, 175, 532; Webb.,Fl. Neb., 127; Chap., Fl. S. St., 134; Brew, and Wats., 

 Fl. Calif. I, 214; Coult., Fl. Colo. 100; Upham, FL Minn. 58; Coult., FL 

 Tex. 112; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 120; Cov., Fl. Ark. 183; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 

 361. 



North America: Ont. to N. Eng., N. J., Ga. and Fla.; 

 W. to Minn., Neb., Colo., Ark. and S. W. Tex. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; local or infrequent; damp 

 meadows or bases of hills. 



HERB.: Sheldon 790, Sleepy Eye; Taylor 572, Minne- 

 sota lake; Kassube 97, Minneapolis; Herrick 119, Minneapolis; 

 Sandberg 211, Cannon Falls; Herb. Moyer 88, Montevideo. 



