LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 251 
Japan and Manchuria. 
North America: N. Br., Q., Ont. to N. Y., N. J., 
Penn. and S. Car. W. to Ohio, Minn., Neb. and Man. 
Minn. valley: Throughout in deep woodland, espec- 
ially along streams and near lakes. 
HERB. Sheldon 802, Sigel township, Brown Co.; Tay-. 
lor 590, Glenwood; Sheldon 142, Madison Lake; Sheldon 54, 
Elysian; Ballard 76, Chaska; Kassube 18, Minneapolis; Leiberg 
6, Blue Earth Co.; Holzinger 11, Winona Co.; Sandberg 42, Red 
Wing; Herb. Sheld. 1714, Minneapolis; 1862,Ramsey Co.; Herb. 
Wickersheim 10, Ash lake, Lincoln Co.; Herb. Moyer 24, Carl- 
ton lake, Chippewa Co. 
XLII. MENISPERMACEAE. Moon-Seed 
Family. 
Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 825 (1840); Benth. and Hook., Gen. Pl. I, 30 (1862); 
Prantl, Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, II, 78 (1888). 
Genera: 56-58 living; 5-6 extinct; tropics and spar- 
ingly without, especially in the S. hemisphere; in the Tertiary 
widely distributed over the N. hemisphere. 
Species: 300 (Miers); 80 (B. and H.); perhaps 150 dis 
tinct; Cretaceous and Tertiary forms abundant in N. America 
and Tertiary forms in Europe, where there are now few living 
representatives. 
MENISPERMUM Linn. Gen. 107 (1737). 
Trilophos Fisch. Ann. Sci. Nat. (1835). 
? Selwynnia F. MULL. Fragm. LV, 153 (1861). 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. III, 33; Benth. and Hook., Gen. Pl. I, 37, 962; Du- 
rand, Ind Gen. Phan. 8; Gray, Ill, Gen. I, 73; Schenck, Paleophyt. 500. 
Living species: 38. Japan, 1; Centr. and E. Asia, 1; 
North American Atl. forest region, 1. 
Fossil species: Menispermites (Lesquerx.) about 10 
species from the Dakota, Cretaceous (upper) and 5-6, Eocene: 
North America. 
Menispermum canadense LINN. Spec. 340 (1753). 
Cissampelos smilacina LINN. Spec. 2 ed. 1473 (1762). 
M. angulatum Moencu, Meth. 277 (1794). 
M. smilacinum DC. Syst. I, 541 (1818). 
Wats. and Coult., Gray’s Man. 6 ed. 51; Britt., Fl. N. J. 42; Webb. 
Fl. Neb. 115: Upham, Fl. Minn. 21; Chap., Fl. 8. St. 16; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 
29; Cov., Fl. Ark. 163: Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 32. 
North America: Q., Ont. and Man.; N. U. S. to N. 
Eng., N. J and N. Car.? W. to Dak., Minn., Neb. and Ark. 
