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Potentilla NicoUetii (Wats.) Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud, i : 

 i6. 1894. 

 Potentilla sicpina var. NicoUetii ^ KX%. Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : 

 553- 187.3- 

 As shown by the two preceding notes, this species does not 

 occur in Minnesota, for the specimens upon which Mr. Sheldon 

 raised the variety to specific rank, belong to another species, or 

 rather to two species. 



Potentilla pentandra Engelm. ; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 

 I : 447. 1840, 

 Not previously reported from Minnesota. Collected at Jor- 

 dan, Scott county, June, 1891, by C. A. Ballard, no 252. In 

 the Metaspermai of the Minnesota Valley, this specimen is re- 

 ferred to Potentilla Canadensis^ a species which it does not at 

 all resemble. 



Malus loensis (Wood) Britton, 111. Fl. 2:235. 1897. 



Pyt'tis coronaria var. loensis Wood, Class Book, 333. 1S60. 

 Pyrus loensis Bailey, Am. Gard. 12:473. 1891. 



In the Metaspermee of the Minnesota Valley this species is 

 included under '■'■Pirns co?'onaria" and the following speci- 

 mens cited there belong to it, and not to Malus coronaria : Bal- 

 lard, 345, Helena, Scott County ; Sheldon, 659, Waseca ; Sand- 

 berg, Red Wing. Sheldon's 322, Smith's Mills, Blue Earth 

 county, may belong here, but the specimen is so mutilated and 

 imperfect that accurate determination from it alone is not 

 possible. 



Geranium Bicknellii Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 24: 92. 1897. 

 Apparently common in Minnesota, as evinced by the follow- 

 ing collections: J. H. Sandberg, Taylor's Falls, Two Harbors, 

 Red Wing; C. L. Herrick, Minneapolis, St. Louis river; F. 

 F. Wood, Pike Lake ; L. H. Bailey, Vermilion Lake, no. 

 199; T. S. Roberts, Duluth ; C. A. Ballard, Prior's Lake, 

 Cleary's Lake, Scott county ; B. C. Taylor, Alexandria, Tay- 

 lor's Falls; Otto Lugger, Tower; E. P. Sheldon, Milaca, 

 Mille Lac Reservation, Nichols. It has heretofore been con- 

 fused with Geranium Caroliniantan, but that species does not 

 seem to have been collected in Minnesota, as no specimens 

 from the State are found in the herbarium of the University. 



