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Solaniim trifloruni Nutt. Gen 1:128. 1818. 



Previously reported from Minnesota as occurring at Sabin, 

 Clay county {Miss Ida M. Piper). 



Collected along railway tracks near New Brighton, Ramsey 

 county, Minn. {F. H. Burglehaus, July, 1892). 



Sulainim rostratuni Dunal. Solan. 234. 1816. 



Not previously reported from Minnesota. 

 Collected in waste grounds around Minneapolis, Minn. [F. H. 

 Burglehaus, Aug., 1890, 



Gerardia skitineriana Wood, Class Bk. 1855. 



Although reported from Minnesota by Lapham and Garrison, 

 no authentic Minnesota specimens were known to the writer 

 until the present season. 



It was collected on dry hillsides near Featherstone, Goodhue 

 county, Minn. {A. P. AmUrson, Aug., 1893). The specimens 

 found were slender, simple, about a span high, and with tri- 

 angular-setaceous calyx teeth, and rose-purple, finely ciliate 

 corollas, varying from one-half to two-thirds of an inch in 

 length. 



Plantago major Linn. Spec. 113. 1753. 



A teratological form of this species was found near St. Paul, 

 Minn. {C. A. Ballard, Aug., 1891). The inflorescence may be 

 described as narrowly conical. At the base of each pyxis there 

 is developed a foliaceous bract. This at the base of the in- 

 florescence is from two- thirds to one inch in length, becoming 

 gradually reduced in size upwards, thus giving the conical out- 

 line to the entire spike. 



The bracts preserve the same general outline of the normal 

 leaf of Plantago major Linn., and show the same veinage 

 characters. 



Laciniaria scariosa (Linn.) Hill. var. coi\vnil)uIosa n. v. 



Laciniaria scariosa (Ltnn.) Hill, forma corymbulosa Siield. Quar. 

 Bull. Univ, Minn. 1:27. 1892, 



Tall and stout, 9 to 12 dm. high, from an irregular-shaped 

 corm; stem striate, smooth below, but white pubescent with 

 jointed hairs above; leaves scabrous, erect spreading, the lower 

 oblong-lanceolate, clasping, tapering to a margined petiole, 

 2 to 3 dm. in length, the cauline lanceolate, subsessile, 1 to 1.5 



