LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 851 
Wats. and Coult., Gray’s Man. 6 ed. 118; Chap., Fl. S. St. 77; Britt., 
Fl. Neb. 78; Upham, Fl. Minn. 39; Webb., Fl. Neb. 122; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 
98; Cov , Fl. Ark.173; Wats., Bibl. Ind. I, 181. 
North America: Q., Ont. to Georgian bay; S. to N. 
Eng,, N. J,, Car. and Tenn.; W. to Minn., Neb. and Ark. 
Minn. valley: Forest region; Ft. Snelling to Blue 
Earth Co. and W. to New Ulm; edtes of woods and shaded 
banks. 
HERB.: Sheldon 313, Stony Point, Lake Madison; An- 
derson 1, Goodhue Co.; Sheldon 705, White Bear lake; Sheldon 
553, Waseca; Sheldon 172, Kagle Lake, Blue Earth Co.; Sheldon 
628, Wilton, Waseca Co.; Holzinger 47, Winona’ Co.; Sundberg 
117, Cannon Falls; Herb. Wickersheim 28, Mankato. 
LXIV. ACERACEAE. Maple Family. 
Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 1055 (1840); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Pl. I, 388 
(1862)—sub Sapindaceae; Baillon, Hist. Pl. V, 373 (1874)—sub Sapindaceae. 
Genera: 2; temperate N. hemisphere to Java and, N. 
India. 
Species: 60+; center in Himalayan region; 55 in Acer. 
ACER Linn. Gen. 317 (17387). 
Negundo Morencyu, Meth. 334 (1794). 
Negundium Rar. Med. Rep. II, V, 350 (1808). 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. V, 427; Benth. and Hook., Gen. Pl. I, 409; Gray, Jil. 
Gen. II, 199; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 82; Schenck, Palaeophyt. 557; Sar- 
gent, NV. Am. Silv. IT, 79. 
Living species: 75+; China and Japan, 30+; Hima- 
layas, 12; Europe and Orient, 12; North America, 9; E. Sts., 6; 
Pac. coast, 3; Rocky mts., 2; Canada, 9; Pl. Wheel., 4; Pl. 
King., 4; northern hemisphere and S. to mts. of Java. 
Fossil species: Greenland and Spitzbergen, Tertiary 
(Heer); Cretaceous, N. America (Lesquereaux, Newberry); Ter- 
tiary Europe, 5 sp.; principally Oligocene, few Miocene; Mio- 
cene of Saghalin; Pliocene in Japan (Nathorst). Tertiary, N. 
America, numerous. 
Acer negundo Linn. Spec. 1056 (1753). 
Negundo aceroides MoENCH, Meth. 334 (1794). 
Negundium fraxinifolium RaF. Desv. Jour. Bot. V, 170 (1809). 
Negundo fraxinifolium Nutt. Gen. I, 253 (1818). 
? N. mexicanum DC. Prodr. I, 596 (1824). 
N. trifoliatum and lobatum Ra¥F. N. FI. I, 48 (1830). 
N. negundo Supw. Gard. and For. IV, 166 (1891). 
Wats. and Coult., Gray’s Man. 6 ed.; Britt., Fl. N. J. 78; Coult, Fl. 
Colo. 49; Brew. and Wats., Fl. Calif. I, 108; Chap., Fl. S. St. 81; Upham, Fl. 
