LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 421 



Minn, valley: Forest district and N. W. district; wet 

 meadows. 



HERB.: Taylor 1013, Glenwood; Oestlund 147, Minne- 

 apolis; Leiberg 53, Blue Earth Co.; Herb. Sheld. 1874, Minne- 

 apolis. 



Gentiana americana (LiNN.). 



G. ciliata americana LINN. Syst. I, 645 (1756). 

 G. crinita FROEL. Gent. 112(1796). 

 G. .fimbriata ANDK. Bot. Rep. 509 (1797-1804). 

 Gentianetta crinita DON, Syst. IV, 179 (1838). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man 6 ed. 349; Britt. Fl. N. J. 172; Mac., Fl. 

 Can. I, 321; Chap., Fl. S. St. 355; Upham, Fl. Minn. 112; Wats., King Exp. 

 278; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 193; Gray, Syn..Fl. II, 1, 117. 



North America. Q., Ont. to Saskatchewan and 52 N. 

 lat.; S. to N. Eng., N. J. and mts. of Ga.; W. to Gt. lakes, 

 Minn., Dak. and Colo. 



Minn valley: Throughout forest district; swampy 

 places and wet meadows. 



HERB.: Holzinger 185, Winona Co.; Sandberg 461, 

 Cannon Falls; Hammond 33, Minneapolis. 



LXXXVII. APOCYNACEAE. Dogbane Family, 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 577 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. 

 Plant. II, 681 (1876); Baillon, Hist. PL X, 146 (1891). 



Genera: 127 (Baillon); 103 (B. andH.); tropical reg- 

 ions; a few in temperate zones of N. and S. hemispheres. 



Species: 1000 ; very few in S. hemisphere; a few 

 fossil from Tertiary, Apocynophyllum f 



APOCYNUM LINN. Gen. 187 (1737). 



Baillon, Hist. PI. X, 207; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL II, 716; Durand, 

 2nd. Gen. Phan. 264; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 767. 



Living species: 5; S. Europe; temperate Asia; N 

 America. Russia, 2; Europe, 1; N. America, 2; PI. Wheel., 2, 

 Canada, 2; W. Tex., 1-2. 



Fossil species: Apocynophyllum', Tertiary, Portugal, 

 Japan, Australia, East Indies (Heer, Ettinghauseri), a few spec- 

 ies; all rather doubtful. 



Apocynum cannabinum LINN. Spec. 213 (1753). 

 A. sibiricum JACQ. Hort. Vindob. Ill, 66 (1776). 

 A. hypericifolium AIT. Hort. Kew. I, 304 (1789). 

 A. pulescens R. BR. Wern. Soc. I, 67 (1808). 



Wats, and Coult, Gray's Man. 6 ed. 338; Britt., Fl. N. J. 168; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 140; Chap., Fl. S. St. 358; Upham, Fl. Minn. 114; Mac., Fl. Can. 

 I, 31$, 565; Coult., Fl. Colo. 237; Brew, and Wats., Fl. Calif. 1, 473; Wats. 



