436 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



PL King, 17; California, 40-45; E. Sts., 6; PL Wheel., 10; W. 

 Tex., 8. 



Phacelia purshii BUCKL. Am. Jour. Sci. XLV, 172 (1844). 

 P. fimbriata PURSH, Fl. Am. (1814) not Michx. 

 Cosmanthus fimbriatus A. DC. Prodr. IX, 297 (1845). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 359; Chap., Fl.S. St. 355; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 109; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 162; Cov., Fl. Ark. 205. 



North America: W. Penn. to Minn. ; S. to Tenn., N. 

 Car., Alab. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Reported from S. E. edge; rare or doubt- 

 ful; woods and shaded banks. 



XCII. BORRAGINACEAE. Borage Family. 



Lindl.. Veg. King.-Qtt (1846); Lenin., PL Asp. (\8l8)Asperifoliae; 

 Endlicher, Gen. PL 643 (1836-40) Cordiaceae; LiiidL, Veg. King. 653 (1846) 

 Ehretiaceae; Bentham and Hooker, Gen. PL II, 832 (1876); Baillon, Hist. 

 PL X, 343 (1891) excl. Hydrophyllaceae. 



Genera: 75; (B. andH. 68); cosmopolitan; especially 

 abundant in the Orient. 



Species: 1250 ; 3-4 doubtful fossils in Tertiary; Bor- 

 aginites. 



ONOSMODIUM MICHX. FL Bor.-Am. I, 132 (1803), 

 Purshia SPRENG. Lehm. Asperif. 382 (1818). 

 Osmodium KAF. N. Y. Med. Rep. II, Y, 350 (1808). 

 Baillon, Hist. PL X, 384; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL II, 859; Durand, 

 2nd. Gen. Phan. 284. 



Living species: 6; N. America and Mexico. N. Amer., 

 4; S. Sts., 2; Canada, 2; Rocky mts., 1; E. Sts., 1; PL Wheel., 

 1; W. Tex., 2. 



Ouos mod in in carolinianum (LAM.) DC. Prodr. X, 70 (1846). 

 Lithospermum carolinianum LAM. 111. and Enc. Meth. Suppl. II, 

 837 (1811). 



Purshia mollis LEHM. Asper. 383 (1821). 

 Onosmodium molle BECK, Bot. (1833). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 366; Coult., Fl. Colo. 264; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb, 135; Upham., Fl. Minn. 106; Chap., Fl. S. St. 331; Mac., Fl. Can. 

 I, 342; Cov., Fl. Ark. 206; Gray, Syn. FL II, 1, 206; Coult., Fl. Tex. 288. 



North America: Ont., W. N. Y. and Penn. to Minn., 

 Colo, and Neb.; S. to Ga., Ark. and Tex. 



Minn, valley: Districts E. of Pommes des Terres river; 

 river banks and edges of sloughs. 



HERB.: tSandberg 443, Cannon Falls; Bollard 185, 

 Jordan, Scott Co. ; Taylor 644, Minnesota lake; Herb. Moyer 

 189, Montevideo. 



