Io8 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Subfamily. Hemerocallideae Bart. 1. c. p. 50. 

 Hemerocallideae Dum. Com. Bot. p. 66, (1823). 



HEM EROC ALUS Dioscorides. 



Cynorrodium or Cannarhodium Gesner. Hort. Germ. p. 245, 

 (1561); Hemerocallis Linn., Syst. (1735); Hort. CliflF. p. 128, 

 (1737); Gen. PI. p. 98, (1737); P- 148, (1742); p. 151. (1754); 

 Sp. PI. p. 324, (1753), Liliasphodclus Tour. El.s Bot. p. 279, 

 (1694). Lilio-Asphodelus Tour. I. R. H. p. 299, (1700); also 

 Liliaspodclus Clusius Hist. St. Pannon., p. 143, (1583). Cameraria 

 Boehmer: Ludw. Def. Pi. Gen. Pi. p. 56, (1760). 



Hemerocallis fulva Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. 2, p. 462, (1762); Hemer- 

 ocallis Lilio-Asphodelus fulvus Linn. Sp. Pi. p. 324, (1753). 



Extensively escaped from gardens. Considered quite a weed. 

 Notre Dame, South Bend, Michigan City [Laporte Co), St. Joseph 

 and Benton Harbor. 



Family 32. BACCIFERAE Haller, Fl. Helv. 2, p. 116, (1768). 



Asparagi Jussieu Gen. Pi. p. 40, (1789. Asparagincae Du- 

 mortier Fl. Belg. St. p. 138, (1827), also Com. Bot. p. 66, (1823). 

 Convallariaccae Link, Handb. i. p. 184, (1829). 



Subfamily Asparagoideae Vent. Tabl. 2, p. 141, (1799). 

 Asparageae D. C. in Lam. and D. C. Fl. Fr. ed. 3, 3, p. 172, 

 (1805); also Dum. 1. c. 



ASPARAGUS Dioscorides 2. 151; Juvenal, Sat. 5, 82; 9, 69. 

 Theophrastus, Pliny, 19, 8 and 42; Asparagus of the Pre-Linnaean 

 authors: Fuchs, (1543); Cordus and Gesner, (1561), etc., etc. 

 Also Tour. Els. Bot. p. 249, (1694); L R. H. p. 300, (1700); Linn., 

 Syst. (1735); Hort. Chff. p. 121, (1737); Gen. Pi. p. 93, (1737); 

 p. 145, (1742); p. 145, (1754); Sp. PI. p. 313, (1753)- 



Asparagus hortensis Marcellus Vergilius, in Dios. Com. p. 260, 

 (1529). Camerarius, Hort. Med. Phil. p. 23, (1588). Dodonaeus 

 Pempt. 5, 4, 13, (1583). 



Asparagus altilis Hermolaus Barbarus, Cor. p. 38, (1530). 

 Fuchs. Stirp. Hist. p. 20, (1546); p. 34, (1549); Ruellius, Dios. 

 Mat. Med. p. 173, (1547); Matthioli, Com. Diosc, p. 280, (1559); 

 p. 251, (1554). Asparagus petraeus Galen VL (?). Asparagus 

 domesticus Hort. Syst. Bellonius, Asparagus domesticus vulgaris 

 Lobelius, Obs. p. 458, (1576). Asparagus holeraceus Tabernaemon- 



