440 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 
Fl. Eur ; Herd., Fl. Eur. Russ. 92; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 202; Hart., Fl. 
Scand. I, 77. 
Northern Africa; Europe; N. and W. Asia to India. 
North America: N. B. and N.S. to L. Huron, and S. 
to N. J. and La.; W. to Minn.? 
Minn. valley?: N. E. district; fields and waste or 
gravelly places. 
Hers.: Herrick 238, Minneapolis. 
LAPPULA Hatt (1745). ex O. Kuntze 1. c. (1891). 
Echinospermum Swartz, Lehm. Asperif. 113 (1818). 
Rochelia R. and 8. Syst. IV, 11 (1819). 
Guettardia MANETTI (1751), ex O. Kuntze l. ¢. (1891). 
Cynoglossospermum SIEGESB. FI. Petr. 40 (1736). 
Heterocaryum A. DC. Prodr. X, 144 (1846). 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. X, 372; Benth. and Hook., Gen. Pl. II, 850; Durand, 
Ind. Gen. Phan. 283; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. II, 436. 
Living species: 50+; all temperate regions; S. Africa, 
Australia. Especially N. hemisphere in old world. Europe, 
5; Russia, 10; N. America, 7-8; Canada, 7-8; S. Sts., 3; Cali- 
fornia, 4; E. Sts., 4; Rocky mts., 8-4; Pl. Wheel., 2; Pl. King, 
3; W. Tex., 1. 
Lappula virginiana (LINN.) GREENE, Pittonia IT, 182 (1891). 
Myosotis virginiana Linn. Spec. 131 (1753). 
M. virginica LINN. Spec. 2 ed. 189 (1762). 
Echinospermum virginicun LEHM. Asper. 120 (1818). 
Cynoglossum morisoni DC. Prodr. X, 155 (1846). 
Echinospermum virginianum Hircucock, FI. Ames 509 (1891). 
Wats. and Coult., Gray’s Man. 6 ed. 262; Upham, Fl. Minn. 108; Mac., 
Fl. Can. I, 336, 568; Britt., Fl. N. J. 177; Chap., Fl. S. St. 333; Webb., Fl. 
Neb. 135; Cov., Fl. Ark. 205; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 189 and Suppl. Syn. II, 
421. 
North America: N. Br., Q. to L. Superior reg. and 
Saskatchewan; 8S. to N. Eng., N. J., Va., La. and Alab.; W. to 
Minn., Neb. and Ark. 
Minn. valley: Throughout; dry or sandy prairies or 
waste places. 
HERB.: Ballard 590, Crystal lake, Scott Co.; Ballard 
399, Jordan, Scott Co.; Ballard 625, Chaska; Ballard 673, Wa- 
conia; Taylor 896, Glenwood; Sheldon 167, Madison Lake; Shel- 
don 841, Sleepy Eye; Kassube 190, Minneapolis; Holzinger 174, 
Winona Co.; Winchell 18, Minneapolis; Herb. Sheld. 1727, Min- 
neapolis. 
Lappula deflexa (WAHL.) GARCKE, var. americana (GRAY). 
Proc. Am. Acad. XVII, 224 (1886). 
Myosotis defleaa WAHL. Act. Holm. 113 (180). 
