VASCULAR PLANTS OF NORTH DAKOTA 479 
Menizelia ornata ‘T. & G., Fl. N. Am. I: 534. (1840). 
Touteria decapetala Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30: 276. 
(1903). 
Banks of the Missouri, acc. to the Manuals. Medora (Bren. 
ckle). 
Family 86. CACTACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2:53. (1836). 
CORYPHANTHA (Engélm.) Lemaire, Cact. 32. (1808). 
The type of Cactus is Melocactus. Tinnaeus took what was 
known as Melocacius for type, and put in Pereskia, Opuntia and 
Cereus, and called the whole aggregate Cactus. 
Mamullaria Haw. Svn. Plant. Succ. 177. (1812). Not Stackh. 
(1809). 
741. Corpyhantha vivipara (Nutt.) Britton & Rose, in Britt. 
Smite. Wai MN. Av ed. 11: 571. ~(a0913)2 ; 
Cactus viviparus Nutt. Fraser, Cat. no. 22. (1813). Mamzl- 
laria vivipara (Nutt.) Haw. Syn. Plant. Succ. Suppl. 82. 
Butte (rare) Pleasant Lake, Dunseith. 
TUNAS (or Tune) Dodonaeus, in Theophrasti Eresii de 
Historia Plantarum libri decem. Comment. Johannes Bodaeus 
‘A. Stapel (1644). 
Tuna Dill. Hort. Eth. 396. ray 
Opuntia Plinius considered to be the banian tree of India, 
“qua radices ex folits emittit.’’ It could not be a cactaceous plant, 
such not having been known before the discovery of America. 
(Vide Nwd. Am. Midl. Nat. Vol. I: 79 and 80. 1909). 
Opuntia Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 7. (1759). 
742. Tunas fragilis (Nutt.) Nwd. & Ll. 
Cactus fragilis Nutt. Gen. Pl. I: 296. (1818). 
Opuntia fragilis (Nutt.) Haw, Syn. Pl. Succ. Suppl. 82. (1819). 
McHenry Co.: Sand Hills. 
743. Tunas polyacantha (Haw) Nwd. & LI. 
Opuntia polyacantha Haw., Syn. Pl. Succ. Suppl. 82. (1819). 
Cactus ferox Nutt. Gen. Pl. I:-296. (1818). Not Willd. (1813). 
Opuntia missouriensis DC. Prodr. 3: 472. (1836). 
Minot. 
Family 87. ELAEAGNACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2: 
194. (1836). 
ELAEAGNUS Tour. Cor. 53. (1703). 
744. Elaeagnus argentea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 114. (1814). 
Leeds, Butte, Pleasant Lake, Dunsieth. 
