LIST OP HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 411 



V. tenellum PUBSH, Fl. Am. 288 (1814). 

 V. multiflorum WATS. Dend. Brit. 125 (1825). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 312; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 290; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 159; Upham, Fl. Minn. 93; Wats., King Exp. 209; Engl. Drude, 

 Nat. Pflanz. IV, 1, 51; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 22. 



North America: Newf. to Rocky mts. ; S. to Minn., 

 111., N. J. and Penn. 



Minn, valley : N. W. district; rare; dry hills and woods. 

 HERB. : Sandberg 373, Black Oak, Goodhue Co. ; Sand- 

 berg 374, Moose lake; Bailey 178, Vermilion lake; Bailey 453, 

 Mud lake. 



Vaccinium stamineum LINN. Spec. 498 (1753). 

 V. album PURSH, Fl. Am. 28 (1814). 

 V. elevatum DUNAL. DC. Prodr. VII, 566 (1839). 

 Picrococcus elevatus and floridanus NUTT. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 1. c. VIII, 260 (1843). 



Vaccinium kunthianum KLOTZSCH, (1850?). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 312; Britt., Fl. N. J. 158; Chap., 

 Fl. S. St. 259; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 290; Upham, Fl. Minn. 93; Cov., Fl. Ark. 

 200; EDK!. Drude, Nat. Pflanz. IV, 1, 51; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 21. 



North America: St. Lawrence and Niagara rivers to 

 Minn.; S. to N. Eng., N. J., Fla. and La.; W. to Ark. 



Minn, valley: Reported from N. E. district; rare or 

 doubtful; no Minn, specimens seen. 



LXXX1V. PRIMULACEAE. Primrose Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 729 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. PI II, 

 628 (1876): Pax, in Engkr and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. IV, 1, 98 (1889); Baillon, 

 Hist. PL XI, 305 (1892). 



Genera : 27 ; cosmopolitan ; principally in N. hemisphere . 



Species: 350 living; a few doubtful fossils in Quater- 

 nary. 



ANDROSACE LINN. Gen. Ill (1737). 



Aretia LINN. Gen. ed. V, 178 (1754). 



Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. II, 632; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 249; En- 

 gler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 4, I, 110 (Pax); O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL II, 

 398 (sub Primula)- Baillon, Hist. PI. XI, 338. 



Living species: 62 ; temperate and Alpine regions, 

 N. hemisphere. Russia, 15; N. America, 5; Canada, 3; Rocky 

 mts., 4; E. Sts., 1; Pac. coast; 2; PL King, 2; PL Wheel., 1. 



Androsace occidentalis PURSH, Fl. Am. 137 (1814). 

 Primula occidentalis OK. Rev. Gen. II, 400 (1891). 

 Aretia occidentalis MAcM. MSS. (1891). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 329; Webb., Fl. Neb. 133; Mac., 

 Fl. Can. I, 311; Upham, Fl. Minn. 96; Coult., Fl. Colo. 234; Wats., King 



