LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 281 
North America: N. Br., Q., Ont. to Man.; S. to N. 
Eng., N. J. and N. Car.; W. to Minn., Neb., Ky., Mo. and to 
San Francisco mts. of Arizona. 
Minn. valley: Throughout, but infrequent far W.; 
woods and waste places along streams. 
HersB.: Taylor 273, Janesville; Sheldon 461, Madison 
Lake; Sheldon 53, Elysian; Taylor 804, Glenwood; Sheldon 856, 
Sleepy Eye; Ballard 83, Chaska; Kassube 86, Minneapolis; 
Sandberg 192, Goodhue Co.; Herb. Sheld. 1881, Minneapolis. 
LI. ROSACEAE. Rose Family. 
Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 1240 (1840); Chrysobalaneae Endl. Gen. Pl. 1251; 
Amygdaleae, Endl. Gen. Pl. 1250; Pomaceae Endl. Gen. Pl. 1236 (1840); Dru- 
paceae, Sanguisorbaceae Lindl. Veg. Kiny. 559, 56L (1846); Benth. and 
Hook. Gen. Pl. I, 600 (1865); Baillon, Hist. Pl, I, 345 (1869); Focke, in Engler 
and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, III, 1 (1888). 
Genera: 70+; 90 (Focke); 71 (B. and H.); 66 (Baillon); 
cosmopolitan. 
Species: 1200-1500; two great distributional regions: 
(1) Pacific coast and border regions; (2) N. temperate zone. 
Fossil species known from the Tertiary and Recent and even 
from Upper Cretaceous of N. America, sparingly. 
OPULASTER Mepic. Beitr. Pflanzenanat. II, 109 (1799). 
Physocarpos CAmpBess. Ann. Sci. Nat. I, 385 (1824). 
Neillia Don, Prodr. Nep. 228 (1825). 
Adenileima Bu. Bij. 1121 (1826). 
Epicostorus Rar. Atl. Jour. 144 (1832), 
Physocarpa Rar. Fl. Tell. (1836). 
Stephanandra Siep. ET Zucc. Abh. Minch. Akad. III, 739 
(——). 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. I, 470, 471; Benth. and Hook., Gen. Pl. I, 612; Du- 
rand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 112; Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 3, 1II, 14 
(Focke); O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Nachtr. 949; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 674. 
Living species: 9, in three distinct sections (Neillia, 
Physocarpos and Stephanandra); North America; N. Asia to 
Himalayas; S. China and Japan. North America, 2 sp.; 1, 
Rocky mts. aud Calif.; 1, E. Sts. 
Fossil species: 0. opulifolius (Linn.) in Tertiary of 
Siberia; also, Alaska? Hungary? (Heer, Unger). 
Opulaster opulifolius (Linn.) OK. Rev. Gen. IT, 949 (1891). 
Spiraea opulifoliu LINN. Spec. 489 (1758). 
S. caroliniana Marsu. Arbust. Amer. 146 (1785). 
Opulaster bullatus Mep. Pflanzenanat. IT, 309 (1799) 
Physocarpos opulifolius Rar. N. FI. ILI, 73, 74 (1836 
Neillia opulifolia B. and H. Gen. Pl. I, 612 (1865). 
