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Specimens in the writer’s herbarium are from Winneshiek, Johnson, 
Appanoose, Decatur, Union, Ringgold, Emmet and Dickinson counties. 
The species were observed growing in Allamakee, Page, Palo Alto, Hum- 
boldt, Kossuth, Wright, Franklin and Hardin counties. The State Uni- 
versity herbarium has specimens from the additional counties of Scott, 
Lee, Calhoun and Winnebago. Professor Bessey reported the species 
from Story, Fayette, r loyd and Des Moines counties; Professor Pammel 
from Woodbury county; and Barnes, Reppert and Miller from Scott and 
Muscatine counties. 
I'arry, C. C. Owen's Report of the Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa 
and Minnesota, p. (>19, 1852. 
Flores, low'a Farmer and Horticulturist, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 47, July, 1853. 
Bessey, C. E. Fourth Biennial Report of the Iowa State Agricultural Col- 
lege, p. 12], 1872. 
Arthur, J. C. Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 31, 187G. 
Nagel, J. J. and Ilaupt, J. G. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 164, 1876. 
Hitchcock, A. S. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. 
5, p. 519, 1892. 
I’ammel, L. 11. I’roceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1892, Vol. 1, 
part 3, p. 60, 1893 ; Vol. 3, 1895, p. 133, 1896 ; Vol. 9, 1901, p. 169, 1902. 
Rigg, G. B. Notes on the Flora of Calhoun County, Iowa, p. 26, 1896. 
Fink, Bruce. I’roceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1896, Vol. 4, 
p. 103, 1897. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1897, Vol. 
5, p. 128, 1898. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. and M. F. L. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 
1897, Vol. 5, p. 165, 1898 ; Vol. 6, 1898, p. 197, 1899. 
Barnes, W. D. ; Reppert, Fred ; and Miller, A. A. Proceedings of the Daven- 
port Academy of Sciences, Vol. 8, p. 260, 1900. 
Cratty, R. I. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1903, Vol. 11, 
p. 216, 1904. 
IMueller, II. A. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1903, Vol. 
11, p. 277, 1904. 
Peck, Morton E. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1904, Voi. 
12, p. 204, 1905. 
2. GEMMINGIA Fabr. Enum. PI. Hort. Helm. 1759. 
A monotypic genus of eastern Asia represented in our flora by its 
single species as an escape. 
1. Gemmixgia chixexsis (L.) Kuntze. Blackberry Lily. 
Jxia chincnsis L. Sp. I’l. 36. ] 753. 
Bclamcanda cliinensis DC. in Red. Lil. 3: pi. 121. 1807. 
Pardanthus cliinensis Gawler, in Koenig & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1: 246. 1805. 
Gemmincjia cliinensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 701. 1891. . 
Rootstock short, thick, producing offshoots; roots fibrous; stem stout 
1 — 4 feet high; leaves pale green, equitant, folded, nearly erect, 8 — 15 
inches long, 8 — 14 lines wide; bracts lanceolate, 2 — 6 inches long, the 
upper scarious; flowers several, in terminal bracted clusters, 1 — 2 inches 
across, orange colored, mottled with crimson and purple on the upper 
side; perianth-segments G, obtuse, slightly united below, persistent and 
coiling together; stamens inserted at the base of the segments; filaments 
distinct; anthers linear-oblong; style slender, enlarged above; style 3, 
