NOTES ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS I09 



tanus Kreuterbuch, p. 399, (1625), also Anguillara (1561). Aspara- 

 gus sativus Gesner, 1561, Asparagus sativa C. Bauhin, Pinax 

 p. 488, (1623); Tour. Els. Bot. 1. c; I. R. H. 1. c; Morandi. 

 Hist. p. 105, (1761). Asparagus scanensis Linn. Pan Suecus, 

 Am. Acad. I, p. 245, (1751). Asparagus officinalis Linn. Sp. 

 Pi. p. 313, (1753). Asparagus esculentus Salisb. Pr. 252, No. 2, 

 (1796). 



Escaped from gardens everywhere in the region. I have 

 found it in all the counties. No. 2971, N. U. D. Herb., Notre Dame. 



Subfamily MaianthemEae Dum. Fam. des Pi. p. 60, (1829). 



VAGNERA Adanson Fam. des Pi. 2, p. 496, (1763). Smila- 

 cina Desf. Ann. Mus. Paris, 9. p. 51, (1807); Tovaria Necker, El. 

 Bot. 3, p. 146, (1790); not Tovara Adans (1763); Sigillaria Raf., 

 Jr. Phys. 89, p. 261, (1809); Polygonastram Moench, Meth., p. 

 637, (1794); Neolexis Salisb., Gen. Pi. p. 64, (1866). 



Vagnera racemosa (Linn.) Morong, Mem. Torr. Bot. CI. 5, 

 p. 114, (1894). 



Smilacina racemosa Desf. 1. c; Convallaria racemosa Linn., 

 Sp. Pi. p. 315, (i75'3); Polygonastrum racemosum, Moench, 1. c. 



Lake Maxinkuckee (Clarke); U. N. D. Herb., Nos. 1956 bis. 

 2964 from Notre Dame. Common in all the counties. The inflor- 

 escence is sometimes laterally flat branching only on opposite 

 sides of the rachis. No. 11 211 Notre Dame. 



ASTERANTHEMUM Kunth, Enum. PI. V., p. 151, (1850). 



Vagnera Adans. 1. c. segregate. 



Asteranthemum stellatum (Linn).. 



Asteranthemum vulgaris (Linn.) Kunth 1. c. p. 152. 



Majanthem,uvi stellatum Link. Enum. i, p. 343. 



Vagnera stellata (Linn.) Morong. 1. c. 



[Lake Co.] (Hill); [Laporte Co.] (Deam) ; I have found it 

 everywhere in the range. St. Joseph, Mich. 11025, 11070. 



Asteranthemum trifolium (Linn.). 



Convallaria trifolia Linn., Sp. Pi. p. 316, (1753); Smilacina 

 trifolia (Linn.) Desf. 1. c. p. 5 2. Vagnera trifolia (Linn.) Morong. 1. c. 



Pine, Berry Lake, Higley and Raddin. Gibson, Ind. (Babcock), 

 [Lake Co.]. 



UNIFOLIUM Brunsvigius, (1500), alos Tragus Stirp. Hist. 

 (1552), Chabraeus (1671), Dodonaeus Pempt. p, 20, (1583), Zinn., 



