412 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Exp. 213; Cov , Fl. Ark. 201; Engl. Pax, Nat. Pflanz. 4, I, 1105 Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. II, 1, 60. 



North America: Rainy river to Pembina mts. and 

 Thompson river, Brit. Col.; lat. 49 N. to N. Mex.; E. to Minn., 

 111. and Tenn.?; W. to Neb., Utah and Colo. 



Minn, valley: S. C. and S. W. districts; high prai- 

 ries or knolls. 



HERB.: Sandberg 389, Red Wing. 



LYSIMACHIA LINN. Gen. 121 (1737). 

 Liihiiiia VENT. Cels. 96 (1800). 

 Palladia MOENCH, Meth. 429 (1794). 

 Coxia ENDL. Gen. 733 (1840). 

 Naumbergia MOENCH, Suppl. 429 (1802). 

 Thyrsanthus SCHRANK, Denksch. Baier. Acad. 75 (1813). 

 Lerouxia MERAT. Fl. Par. 77 (1812). 

 Ephemerum REICH. Fl. Germ. Exs. 409 (1830). 

 Theopyxis GRISEB. Phillip, and Lechl. (1844). 

 Godinella LESTIB. ex Dur. Ind. Phan. 250 (1888). 

 Anagzanthe and Bernardina BANDO, ex Baill. 1. c. (1892). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL II, 635; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 250; En- 

 gler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 4, I, 112 (Pax); Schenck, Palaeophyt. 734; 

 Baillon, Hist. PL IX, 343. 



Living species: 60 ; temperate and subtropical re- 

 gions of both hemispheres; very few in the S. hemisphere; 

 centers in China. N. America, 5. 



Fossil species: Interglacial, Elbe river (Schenck). 



Lysimachia thyrsiflora LINN. PL Dan. 517 (1757). 

 L. capitata PURSH, Fl. Am. 135 (1814). 

 Naumburgia thyrsiflora EEICH. DC. Prodr. VIII, 60 (1844). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 331; Britt., Fl. N. J. 165; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 97; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 314; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 63; Webb., Appx. 

 Neb. 36, 



Europe; Japan. 



North America: N. S., N. Br. to Mackenzie and Pac. 

 to Alaska; S. Oregon, Minn., Iowa, Neb., S. 111., Penn. and 

 N. J. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; swamps, bogs and wet 

 meadows. 



HERB.: Sheldon 344, marshes south of Lake Madison; 

 Taylor 443, Lake Helena, Waseca Co. ; Bollard 561, Prior's lake, 

 Scott Co,; Taylor 48, Elysian; Holzinger 140, Winona Co. ; Her- 

 rick 189, Minneapolis; Bailey 421, Long lake; Sandberg 391, 

 Chisago Co. ; Herrick 190, Minneapolis; Oestlund 111, Ramsey 

 Co. ; Herb. Moyer 159, Montevideo. 



