108 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



E. deflexuui, Lehm.* Stickseed. Bur-seed. 

 Red river valley at Pembina, Havard. Northwest. 



E. Lapimla, Lehm. Stickseed. Bur-seed. '^Sdck-tight.'" 



Common, often abundant, tlirough the south half of the state ; less frequent in the 

 Red river valley and the region of lake Superior (reported at Duluth, Jimi, and in the 

 vicinity of Saint Vincent, abundant, Daivson). 



E. ReclOAVSkii, Lehm., var. occideiitale , "Watson. Stickseed. Bur- 

 seed. " Stick- tight." 

 Frequency and range nearly like the last ; but probably absent northeastward. 

 (Procumbent and ascending, six to twelve inches high.)— The American plant is less 

 strict, at length diffuse, and the tubercles or scabrosities of the nutlet are sharpinstead 

 of blunt or roundish, as in the Asiatic plant. Qray's Synoptical Flora of N. A. 



E. Virginicimi, Lehm. (Cynoglossum Morrison!, DC.) Beggar's Lice. 

 Stickseed. Bur-seed. "Stick-tight." 

 Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state ; rare or less frequent 

 northward. 



CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. Hound's-Tongue. 



C. officinale, L. Hound's-Tongue. 



Becoming a frequent weed : lake Pepin, Miss Manninrj; Hastings, ii-eonard, and 

 Mendota, Dakota county, Kassiibe; Nicollet county, Alton; Jordan, Scott county, Juni; 

 Stearns county. Garrison, Cccmpbell. 



C. Virginiciim, L. Wild Comfrey, 



Goodhue county, Sandberg; Stearns county, Upham; St. Louis river, Mrs. Herrick^ 

 East and north. 



ASPERUGO, Tourn. German Mudwort. 



A. prociiinbens,L.f German Mudwort. 



Adventlve.but scarcely established, at Pipestone City, Mrs. Bennett. Rare. 



margined petioles : racemes numerous, commonly geminate and in fniit rather strict : 

 nutlets with elongated triangular back naked (.2 lines long), merely scabrous ; and the 

 margin armed with a close row of flat subulate prickles, their bases often confluent ; 

 scar smaller and narrowly ovate . Limb of corolla varying from 2 to 5 lines in diameter. 

 Gray's Synoptical Flora of N. A. 



*EcHiNOSPEKMUM DEFLExuM, Lehm. Diffusely branched, a foot or so high : leaves 

 from oblong to lanceolate : racemes lax, loosely paniculate : flowers soon sparse, 

 smaller than in the preceding : nutlets smaller, and the mostly naked back (a line long) 



broader Habit intermediate between the preceding and E. Virginicum, 



Lehm.; the American specimens having occasionally some few prickles developed from 

 the rough-granulate dorsal face of the nutlets. Fruit as well as flowers about half the 

 size of that of E. floribundum. Qray's Synoptical Flora of N. A. 



t ASPEBCGO, Tourn . Calyx when in flower nearly regular, deeply 5- cleft, in fruit 2- 

 lobed, with the lobes valvate, closed, flatfish, palmately lacininate, the one 6- and the 

 other 7-toothed. Corolla funnelshaped-salvershaped ; the throat closed by 5 obtuse 

 scales; limb concave, 5-lobed. Stamens included. Nucules laterally compressed, 

 nearly smooth with raised dots, attached by their narrow inner edge to the conical 

 receptacle. A rough herb with fragile juicy stems, and small axillary purplish-blue 

 flowers. Calyx much enlarged and veined in fruit, somewhat like the perianth of the 

 female flowers of tbe genus Atriplex. 



A. procximhens, L. The only known species. Annual ; stem 1 to 3 feet long, pro- 

 cumbent or trailing, succulent, brittle, angular, thinly studded with reflexed prickles. 



