440 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



Fl. Eur ; Herd., Fl. Eur. Russ. 92; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 202: Hart., Fl. 

 Scand. I, 77. 



Northern Africa; Europe; N. and W. Asia to India. 



North America: N. B. and N. S. to L. Huron, and S. 

 to N. J. and La. ; W. to Minn. ? 



Minn, valley?: N. E. district; fields and waste or 

 gravelly places. 



HERB. : Herrick 238, Minneapolis. 



LAPPULA HALL (1745). ex O. Kuntze 1. c. (1891). 

 Echinospermum SWARTZ, Lehm. Asperif. 113 (1818). 

 Rochelia R. and S. Syst. IV, 11 (1819). 

 Guettardia MANETTI (1751). ex O. Kuntze 1. c. (1891). 

 Cynoglossospermum SIEGESB. Fl. Petr. 40 (1736). 

 Heterocaryum A. DC. Prodr. X, 144 (1846). 



Baillon, Hist. PL X, 372; Benth. and Hook., Gen. PI. II, 850; Durand, 

 Ind. Gen. Phan. 283; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. II. 436. 



Living species : 50 ; all temperate regions ; S.Africa, 

 Australia. Especially N. hemisphere in old world. Europe, 

 5; Russia, 10; N. America, 7-8; Canada, 7-8; S. Sts., 3; Cali- 

 fornia, 4; E. Sts., 4; Rocky mts., 3-4; PI. Wheel., 2; PL King, 

 3; W. Tex., 1. 



Lappula virginiana (LiNN.) GREENE, Pittonia II, 182 (1891). 

 Myosotis virginiana LINN. Spec. 131 (1753). 

 M. virginica LINN. Spec. 2 ed. 189 (1762). 

 Echinospermum virginicum LEHM. Asper. 120 (1818). 

 Cynoglossum morisoni DC. Prodr. X, 155 (1846). 

 Echinospermum virginianum HITCHCOCK, Fl. Ames 509 (1891). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 362; Upham, Fl. Minn. 108; Mac., 

 Fl. Can. I, 336, 568; Britt.. Fl. N. J. 177; Chap., Fl. S. St. 333; Webb., Fl. 

 Neb. 135; Cov., Fl. Ark. 205; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 189 and Suppl. Syn. II, 

 421. 



North America: N. Br., Q. to L. Superior reg. and 



Saskatchewan; S. to N. Eng., N. J., Va., La. and Alab.; W. to 

 Minn., Neb. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; dry or sandy prairies or 

 waste places. 



HERB. : Ballard 590, Crystal lake, Scott Co. ; Bollard 

 399, Jordan, Scott Co.; Ballard 625, Chaska; Ballard 673, Wa- 

 conia; Taylor 896, Glenwood; Sheldon 167, Madison Lake; Shel- 

 don 841, Sleepy Eye; Kassube 190, Minneapolis; Holzinger 174, 

 Winona Co.; Winchell 18, Minneapolis; Herb. Sheld. 1727, Min- 

 neapolis. 



Lappula deflexa (\VAHL.) GARCKE, var. americana (GRAY). 

 Proc. Am. Acad. XVII, 224 (1886). 



Myosotis deflexa WAHL. Act. Holm. 113 Q810). 



