LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 417 



F. canadensis GAERTN. Fruct. I, 122 (1788). 

 F. epiptera MICHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 256 (1803). 

 F. discolor MUHL. Cat. Ill (1813). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 335; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 316; Up- 

 ham, Fl. Minn. 115; Webb., Fl. Neb. 140; Chap., Fl. S. St. 369; Britt., FL 

 N. J. 167; Cov., Fl. Ark. 202; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 74; Engl. Knobl., Nat. 

 Pflanz. IV, 2, 7; Coult,, Fl. Tex. 259 in var. 



North America: N. S., N. Br. to Owen Sound and 

 Minn.; S. to Neb., Kan. and Ark.; E. to N. Eng., N. J., Fla. 

 and La. Var. in Tex. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; rich woods and banks of 

 lakes and streams. 



HERB. : Taylor 484, Janesville; Taylor 704, Minnesota 

 lake; Taylor 816, Glenwood; Taylor 526, Mud lake, WasecaCo. ; 

 Ballard 550, Spring lake, Scott Co. ; Sheldon 855, Sleepy Eye; 

 Taylor 1020, Glenwood; Bailey 117, Vermilion lake; Oestlund 

 152, Hennepin Co.; Holzinger 192, Winona Co.; Herb. Sheld. 

 1907, Minneapolis. 



LXXXVI. GENTIANACEAE. Gentian Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PL 599 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. 

 Plant. II, 799 (1876); Baillon, Hist. PL X, 113 (1891). 



Genera: 45; temperate regions; a few in tropics and 

 boreal regions. 



Species: 550-600; widely distributed; a few fossil 

 forms from Tertiary rocks. 



MENYANTHES LINN. Gen. 117 (1737) em. BENTH. 1. c. 

 (1876). 



Menonanthes HALL. Fl. Helv. 633 (1742). 



Baillon, Hist. PL X, 144; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL II, 819; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 278; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 763. 



Living species: 2; Europe; Asia mts. and N. ; N. 

 America. 1, Europe, Asia, N. America; 1, W. N. Amer. and 

 Russia. N. Amer., 2. 



Fossil species: 2; Tertiary, Greenland, Lausanne, 

 etc. (Heer); doubtful. 



Menyanthes trifoliata LINN. Spec. 207 (1753). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 353; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 327; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 173; Upham, FL Minn. 113; Brew, and Wats., Fl. Calif. I. 485* 

 Nym., Fl. Eur.; Led., Fl. Ross. Ill, 76; Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 273; Miyabe, 

 Fl. Kur. 2,51; Herd., Fl. Eur. Euss. 88; Wats., King. Exp. 281; Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. II, 1, 128; Hart., Fl. Scand. I, 102; Webb., Appx. Neb. 40. 



Iceland and N. Russia to Spain and Servia; Siberia to 

 N. W. India, Japan and Kurile Isls. 



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