eh oh gb ated oD ay 4 Dap Ae yt Career Note ae teas arth cade nbs sora Mose trea te “De theeh HO te ov + into, 4 Oh De te Wola. te oh oR sth Soe Sin Shee ar SO oma ass eee ee ae =e athasta LR Bo aT RST tne Facey le arte Were PMMA Ra hes rattan Titan ipa cay « | “@ eo 7 oe a ee ere —— : j 1 } : ie ii we oN ae a> % tt oa dhe sl ¥ y v * ON Oe AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY \ s OF Mini IN E> @ TAS Aerrick rae, ‘THE TWELFTH ANNUAIAREPORT, FOR THE YEAR 1883. b N. iH. WINCHELL, STATE GEOLOGIST, es ot ee . MINNEAPOLIS : PN Ta UN,4 j Bs, JOHNSON, SMITH & HARRISON, ae STATE PRINTERS. ‘We 1884. Basie Vi IAD : Je DIONE a SS THe UNIVERSITY oF MINNESOTA, Mrinneapouis, Minn., Decemper 1, 1883. To the President of the University : _ Dear Srr:—I herewith tender the twelfth annual report on the progress of the gevlogical and natural history survey of the state. I include herewith a copy of the first annual report for reprint, that report being in constant demand, and out of print now for several years. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. N. H. WINCHELL, State geologist and curator of the general museum. THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, HENRY H. SIBLEY, President, - - - St. Paul. THOMAS 8S. BUCKHAM, - - - - Faribault. GREENLEAF CLARK, - - - - St. Paul. JOHN S. PILLSBURY, - - - - Minneapolis. KNUTE NELSON, - - - - - Alexandria. CUSHMAN K. DAVIS, - - - - St. Paul. JOHN B. GILFILLAN, Secretary, - - Minneapolis. EX-OFFIGIO. LUCIUS F. HUBBARD, Governor, - - . - Red Wing. D. L. KIEHLE, Superintendent of public instruction, - Minneapolis. WM. W. FOLWELL, President of the University, Corresponding Secretary, - - - - - Minneapolis. REPORT. i SUMMARY STATEMENT. The greater portion of the time during the year has been given both by Mr. Upham and myself to the final revision of manuscript for the printers, and the reading of proofs, the preparation of maps, plates and other illustrations, and the proofs of the same, intended for the final report. At the present time the following county maps have been drawn, lithographed and printed, showing the geology and surface features, and the lines of equal elevation above the sea, viz: Houston, Winona, Fillmore, Olmsted, Mower, Dodge, Freeborn, Waseca, Steele, Blue Harth, Faribault, Waton- wan, Martin, Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock, Lincoln, Lyon, Yellow Medicine, Redwood. Brown, Nicollet, Le Sueur, Wabasha, Scott, Carver, Wright, Lac qui Parle and _ Big Stone. The counties of Goodhue, Rice and Dakota, and several others, are in course of preparation, and sufficient examination has been made in nearly all the state as far north as. Brainerd, for mapping and reporting in the same manner. In the northern half of the state, -also, much information has been obtained. Considera- ble more work, however, must be done in that. portion north of the parallel uf Brainerd. where the difficulties of travel increase, and at the same time the geology becomes more difficult and more interest- ing. Should the survey continue according to the present design, 6 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. the system of mapping, and of description now being carried on, could be extended over the rest of the state with the present force in about two years. But as the printing of work already prepared, and the preparation of maps and manuscript for future publication, require much time, the completion of the survey cannot be looked for before the close of the fourth year from this date. In addition to this, other matters demanded by the law of the survey are very important, but have been kept in abeyance pending the completion of the strictly geological portion. This will require further time and other workmen. It is to be hoped that the regents will always be able to make an annual increment to the scientific knowledge of the state, in some of the departments of investigation covered by the law of the survey, and that the annual reports will successively become more and more valuable as they become more numerous. Dr. P. L. Hatch, who has charge of the investigations in the ornithology of the state, has signified his intention to render his final report on the same by or before the spring of 1885. Mr. C. L. Herrick has been given the mammalogy of the state, with a view to the collection of skins and skeletons for the museum, and the preparation ofa final report on the same for pub- lication in about two years. The only field-work done in 1883,. was that performed by myself in Dakota and Rice counties, including, however, further sup- plementary observations in Mower and Olmsted counties, and a visit to some of the localities of red quartzyte in the southwestern part of the state. Additional cases will soon be placed in the south room of the museum, intended for the reception of the collections of Dr. H. C, Hovey, representing the stalactitic deposits of caves. This valua- ble collection has kindly been loaned to the University, on deposit, with the only condition that it shall be well kept. Further additions have been made to the specimens belonging to the general museum, through the agency of the survey, and by donation by the following individuals: W. H. Scofield, of Cannon Falls, and James B. Alexander, of Minneapolis, and by several others, These are all enumerated in the accompanying list of accessions. Exchanges have been made with A. 8. Tiffany, of Davenport, Lowa, and John Eyerman, of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The final paper of Mr. Herrick on a portion of the Crustacea of Minnesota is presented in this report, illustrated by a number of octavo plates. STATE GEOLOGIST. 1 The intent of the circular issued in 1876* respecting the botany of the state has been kept in mind. Several correspondents have contributed both information for a catalogue of the species of the state, and specimens for the University herbarium. During the past two years Mr. Upham has been engaged, casually, in the preparation of such a catalogue. There has been considerable request for a more complete listing, and a more full account of the distribution of the plants of the state, than that of Dr. I. A. Lap- ham, published by the Minnesota Horticultural Society in 1875. The very complete catalogue, prepared by Mr. Upham, is herewith transmitted as a part of this report. It includes and classifies all reliable information on the botany of the state that is now in the possession of the survey, and will serve as a more useful euide to students and others in the future study of species and their distri- bution in Minnesota, than anything hitherto published. *See the fifth annual report, p. 64. 1: PALASONTOLOGY. (a) A NEW TRILOBITE. In the registration of specimens lying in the university building in 1873, a lot of miscellaneous rocks, minerals and fossils was found that had been presented by the late Dr. Stoneman, of Minneapolis. The fossils and rocks were evidently from the Trenton at Minneapolis; but as there were no certain records respect- ing them, they were all entered in the register, and finally published, with the note “records doubtful.’ (Fifth annual report, p. 207.) A slab of fossiliferous limestone (Mus. reg. number 90) was thus referred to the Trenton. In the sixth annual report a fossil trilobite, contained on this limestone, was reported after a casual examination as Asaphus extans, of Hall (Joc. cit. p. 161), with the remark that it ‘‘ has a tuberculated surface instead of lamellose.’’ In March, 1879, at the request of Lieut. A. W. Vogdes this specimen was sent to him, and he kindly returned the specimen with the following description, as a new species, naming it in honor of Dr. Stoneman. Bathyurus Stonemanii, Vogdes. Description —The pygidium is semi-elliptical, strongly convex, and the width a little greater than the length. The anterior mar- gins are rounded, and the outer margins bordered by a well-defined convex limb. The axis is greatly elevated above the sides, and tapers toward the posterior margin, terminating on the limb. The axis is marked with six rings, the first three being well-defined, and the others not so prominently marked. The dorsal furrows are deep and well-defined. The lateral lobes are convex and have five pl@urw, each being separated by deep furrows. The pleure are bent downward and backward, and arise from the second, third, STATE GEOLOGIST. 9 fourth and fifth axial rings. They all terminate upon the inside _ furrow which outlines the limb. The points of termination of the anterior pleurz are on a line with the fifth axial rmg. The entire pygidium is bordered by a convex limb which runs from the fulcral ‘points around it. This limb has an inside furrow which runs be- tween the termination of the axis and the limb, and also an exte- rior furrow. The surface of the upper dorsal shell is tuberculated. Locality and geological position. The Trenton group, probably at Minneapolis, Minn. Presented to the general museum by Dr. Stoneman. This species approaches B. senectus, Billings, which has six axial rings and four pleuree. Our species is, however, much larger, and has a greater member of pleure. The inside marginal furrow in the former species does not extend all around the pygidium, but ends abruptly at the end of the axis. Bullings’ species comes from the Potsdam group, and ours from a different geological position. Our species has certain affinities with B. extans, Hall. The most prominent points of difference between the former and that described by Prof. Hall is that the axis is more elevated, and does not term- inate so abruptly behind in B. Stonemanii. The second dorsal surface of B. extans is marked with fine imbricating lamellose striz, whereas our species is tuberculated. There are three species of this genus described, which appear in the Trenton group; viz. B. extans, H.; B. longispinus, Walcott; and B. spiniger, H. Of all the species, with the exception of the last named, the pygidium is known, and differs from our species. The only part of B. spiniger, H. known to us is the glabella, which is tuberculated; and there is. reason to suppose that our species may be the missing part of B. spiniger; but it is doubtful. The geological range of the genus is from the Potsdam to the Brenton group. (b) THE AGE OF THE SANDROCK AT AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY. On page 360, of the first volume of the final report of the survey, the age of _ the sandrock at Austin is considered, and Prof. H. S. Williams is referred to as authority for identification of some fossils from that rock. In justice to Prof. _ Williams the full text of his communication. relating to these fragmentary fossils is herewith given. If the horizon of the Austin rock be in the Marcellus, shale, the overlying limestones appearing in the Cedar valley near the state boundary, and further south, probably all fall into the Hamilton epoch. 10 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Letter of professor H. S. Williams. Irwaca, N. Y. Sept. 14, 1888. My dear professor: I have examined the fossils which you sent me and enquire par- ticularly about in your letter received a few days ago. The fossils are in very imperfect condition; and the identification cannot be regarded as anything more than strongly probable. I find in the lot, No. 2699, from Gregson’s mill, these species. J. Productella truncata, Hall. 2. A minute lamellibranch, like a small Aviculopecten. 3. A minute brachiopod; oval, the smooth surface resembling a dorsal valve of Amboceelia, or (?) a Nucleospira. The second lot, No. 2698, Cedar valley, Mower county, resembles lithologically the first, but the fossils are distinct. They are: 1. Numerous cavities of Aulopora, or some allied form. 2. A small shell like Atrypa reticularis. 3. A small shell like Atrypa aspera. 4, Cyrtina, like C. Dalmani, but may be C, Hamiltonensis. 5. Several lenticular-shaped shells which are probably Nucleo- spira. 6. A minute terebratuloid shell of Rensselzria type. 7. Trace of a crinoid stem. 8. Trace of a minute Orthoceras, or (?) Coleolus. You ask my opinion of the horizon. The material is very unsatis- factory for basing a judgment on; but if the two lots are from the same horizon, it is safe to say that it is lower Devonian. Taking the fauna of No. 2698 alone, I see nothing to prevent its being Upper Silurian. If the two lots are from the same rock, I should think from study of the fossils that the horizon is not higher than the base of the Hamilton period, nor lower than the Lower Helderberg; and my opinion is that the fauna belongs to an horizon near the base of the Hamilton, either below it or in an equivalent position to the New York Marcellus. The only really satisfactory fossil is the Productella truncata; and if the brachiopods of No. 2698 came from a stratum under that containing No. 2699, the No. 2698 lot. might occur anywhere from the Hamilton down to the Lower Hel- derberg. Nucleospira, Rensseleria type of terebratuloids, Cyrtinas and Atrypas are genera passing from Upper Silurian throvgh lower ry STATE GEOLOGIST. it and middle Devonian, and generally do not mark any narrow geol- ogical horizon. From their association, and the fact that they are all minute specimens, I should conclude that it was a sparse fauna in unfavor- able conditions of life, which might have lived anywhere along the Upper Silurian or lower Devonian. But the Productellas are peculiar to Devonian and above. Have you not found any more fossils? I should think a careful search might bring out specimens that could be determined accur- ately; and it would be interesting to have the means of determining the species. I wish [ could speak more definitely; but this is the best I can do with the specimens. Possibly this with the stratigraphical study may enable you to fix the horizon. With sincere regard, . Henry S. WILtiams. (c) CRETACEOUS LEAVES. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF DR. LEO LESQUEREUX. The Cretaceous leaves that have been obtained in the state from the Creta- ceous strata at various times and places, have been submitted to Mr. Lesque- reux for determination and description. His final report will appear sub- sequently, but the following is the result of a preliminary examination of a lot of specimens sent. Dr. Lesquereux’ preliminary report. The content of the lot, received Jan. 14th, 1884, is as follows: No. 2143. From the north side of the Minnesota river, eight miles below New Ulm, represents 4 smal} undeterminable fragments of leaves, without trace of nervation. No. 2148 (A) is apparently a Proteoides. No. 3808 and 5163. Ficus, sp. nov. No. 5163 is not marked in | the list; it is labelled Austin. Mo. 3911... Laurus Nebrascensis, Lesq., 1 leaf on three pieces. No. 3912. No. 5155 (A). TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Salix protecfolia, Lesq. The above three Nos. are from the north side of the Cottonwood river in Brown county. Populus litigiosa, Heer, and Cinnamomum Scheuchzeri, Heer, on the reverse. No. 5155 (B), 5155 (H), 5157 (B). Magnolia alternans, Heer, No. 5155 (C). No. 5155 (D). No. 5155 (F). No. 5155 (G, K). No. 5155 (1). No. 5155 (L, M, 0). No. 5155 (P). No. 5155 (Q & S). No. 5155 (E, N, R). No. 5156. No. 5157 (C). No. 5157 (A). No. 5158. No. 5159. No. 5160. No. 5161. No. 115. Populus elegans, Lesq. “ Lancastriensis, Lesq., (probably equi- valent to P. cordifolia, Newby). Protophyllum crednerioides, Lesq.?, a fragment; base of leaf destroyed. Populites cyclophyllus, Lesq. 2 fragments of superposed leaves, the lower only distinet, Cinnamomum Scheuchzeri, Heer. Populus litigiosa, Heer, 3 specimens. Populus cyclophylla, Lesq, a deformed plicate leaf. 2 fragments of the same leaf, Platanus prime- va, Lesq., with a leaf of Persea?, not yet satis- factorily determined, upon 5155 (S). 3 undeterminable fragments. Cissus, sp. nova; name not yet fixed. Salix protecefolia, Lesq., with a branch of Pla- tanus on the reverse. Andromeda Parlatorii, Heer. Laurus, sp. nov., not yet named. Fragment of undeterminable leaf, areolated by maceration, Ficus? ?. Leaf of Pinus, sp. nov., not yet named. No vegetable remains, but shell or some animal organism. The osseous plate marked by stricz is 2 mm. thick. I have seen along the banks of the Cottonwood river, above the Cretaceous sandstone bearing leaves, large fragments of shells as thick as the plate upon 5161. Sequoia, sp. nov., a specimen which I have al- ready seen here. It bears the label Austin, Minn. As far as I can see now, the specimens remarked above, 36 in number, represent 16 species, of which 4arenew ones. Of the spe- cies, 10 have been recognized in the Dakota group of Kansas and Nebraska, and two in the same Cretaceous formation of Colorado. STATE GEOLOGIST. 13 The specimens No. 5155 A, down to the end -of the list except No. 115, are all from the Cottonwood river, about 3 miles south of New Ulm. They have one species in common with those of the north side of the same river in Brown county, where-from 3 speci- mens only are sent. The whole lot is valuable and interesting. One quarto plate would suffice for the figures of the more interesting species and best spe- cimens. L. LesQquEREvUX. Columbus, O., Jan. 17th, 1884. III. THE COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF MINNESOTA AND NEW ENGLAND GRANITES.! By N. H. WINCHELL. Having had occasion recently to investigate the qualities of some of the building-stones of the state of Minnesota, I found it neees- sary to subject them to the usual test of crushing, in the form of two-inch cubes, to learn their strength under pressure. Samples were obtained and dressed to the required size by Mr. William Keating, at the marble shops of Messrs. Sullivan and Farnham, in this city. About one hundred of such cubes were formed, embracing sandstones, limestones, granites and trap rocks. It is intended in this paper to show the remarkable, and unexpected strength exhibited by the crystalline rocks of the state, and espe- cially their superiority in that respect over the granites of New England. The samples as prepared were carefully chosen to avoid flaws and imperfections due to weathering. They were dressed by hand with hammer and chisel on all six sides, so as to measure two inches on all their edges, the sides all being exact squares. They were sent to Gen. Gillmore, at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, where they were subjected tothe test for crushing-strength in the same manner as many other granites that have been tested and reported by him in his reports to the chief of engineers, from other portions of the United States and particularly from New England. The tests were applied by Mr. James Cocroft, under the direction of Gen. Q. A. 1 Read at the Minneapolis meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. August, 1885. STATE GEOLOGIST. 15 Gillmore. The samples were crushed between steel plates, one of each stone in the direction of the schistose structure, and another in the direction across it, the former being designated as on edge and the latter as on bed, with the following results:— Strength in pounds Kind of stone. Location of quarry. Position. ——_—_ ‘ per square of sample. ineh: Dark trap rock, Taylor’s Falls. On bed 105,000 26,250 massive melaphyr. Chisago Co. On edge 105,000 26,250 Dark trap rock, Tischer’s creek. On bed 105,000 26,250 from a dyke. Near Duluth, St. Louis Co, On edge 105,000 26,250 Gray gabbro, Rice’s Point. On bed 109,000 27,250 massive, fine. Duluth, St. Louis Co. On edge 105,000 26,250 Red, fine syenite. Beaver Bay. On bed 106,000 26,500 Lake Co. On edge 103,000 25,750 Red, quartzose Watab. On bed see pales 0 Ee See Oma sti | sey 103,c00 | 25,750 Red, quartzose ~ East St. Cloud. On bed |: 112,000 28,000 syenite. ~ Sherburne Co, On edge 105,000 26,250 : Pipestone City. On bed 111,000 27,750 Red quartzyte. Pipestone Co. On edge | 108,000 27,000 Massive, gray East St. Cloud. On bed 105,000 26,250 syenite, quartzose, Sherburne Co. On edge 103,000 25,750 Fine-grained East St. Cloud, On bed 112,000 28,000 gray syenite. Sherburne Co. On edge 105,000 26,250 Fine-grained Crebap ly imperfect sample). On bed 86,000 21,500 gray syenite. auk Rapids. On edge 100,000 25,200 Average Of 20 Samples..........00--secceeceos 104,800 26,200 In order to make a fair comparison, the resultant average strength of the Minnesota samples, crushed between steel plates, should be referred to wooden cushions. Gen. Gillmore’s experiments indicate that granite has a greater crushing strength between steel plates than between cushions of wood, amounting to eleven per cent. of its strength between steel. Making such allowance, the average of the Minnesota granites becomes:— | Average strength of 20 samples of Minnesota granites, unpolished, crushed between wooden cushions. 2-inch cubes. Pounds, per 2- inch cube, 93,272; per square inch, 23,318. This result is obtained by including the strength of the samples both on edge and on bed, in one calculation. The following table shows the same data for 20 New England granites, reported by Gen. Gillmore, the most of them being on bed, or undesignated as to whether on bed or on edge. In selecting these, I have chosen the stronger of the New England granites from general Gillmore’s table, and in all cases except one (in which 16 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. the strength on edge is reported greater than on bed) I have chosen the strength on bed, when known. I have avoided every possible error that might be made in favor of the Minnesota granites, and allowed several points that count in favor of the New England granites. TABLE showing the compressive strength of New England granites in 2-inch cubes, as reported by Gen. Gillmore (Report of the Chief of En- gineers, 1875, Part II). In unpolished cubes, on wooden cushion- blocks. SS — ee a a Strength in pounds Position. |-—-——_-—— — per square: of sample. inch. Blue. Staten I., New York. On bed 89,250 22,315 ana eaten Bienes POX TSlAMG MG) — 000 Ri Megesedibis ee) 59,500 14,875 OPE 82555. Sek Dix Island, Me. shiek clase wea 60,000 15,000 Dark. QUINCY MASSE) pair) Al lea omtsien, ate 71,000 17,750 Light. CONT CNS IMTS 5: 2) Se pie aalisesee eters share 59,000 14,750 Flagging. NWOrbnVIVeruN Y. 7°" * SENEPR ee 53,700 13,425 aie shieas Aeatee ee Cape Ann, Mass. On bed 59,750 14,937 Porter’s rock. Mystic river, Conn. On bed 72,500 18,125 Gray. Stony creek, Conn. On bed 60,000 15,000 Gray. Fall River, Mass. On bed 63,750 15,937 Bluish gray. Keene, N. H. On bed 41,000 10,250 Bluish gray. _Keene, N. H. On bed 51,500 12,875 Bho ter es One Millstone Pt., Conn. sfawie «jets yetsdnt 64,750 16,187 We sla’sae ae Greenwich, Conn. labribsebs don 45,200 11,300 Nianticriver.. New London, Conn. "© |) 2k sdeausee 50,000 12,500 Niantic river.. New London, Conn. On edge 56,700 14,175 sae’ FORO UE Re Saiela Vinal Haven, Me. Vase kcwnee 52,600 13,150 Spo FTIR eh Vinal Haven, Me. pe he eee Gy, 16,750 BS TO GS Fhe Westerly, R. I. On bed 58,750 14,687 CO RR et Westerly, 8.1. On edge 59,750 14,937 Averare Of 20'PTANITES, 26.0 cc cew votvens wietesrien 59,785 14,946 We find here that the Average strength of 20 New England granites, unpolished, crushed between wooden cushions in 2-inch cubes, is, in pounds, per 2-inch cube, 59,785; per square inch, 14,946. This shows that the average strength of the Minnesota granites is fifty-six per cent of the strength of the New England granites greater than that of the New England granites. This anomalous result was so striking that I called general Gill- more’s attention to it. The strength of the Minnesota 2-inch cubes was so great that it exceeded the highest registration of the gauge in use, and the samples were not reported aé first, but were retained for crushing on a more powerful machine at Boston. It occurred to me that possibly there had been a gradual deterioration in the machine, or in the gauge, so that the registration was uni- STATE GEOLOGIST. 17 formly too high, and this impression was strengthened by compar- ing the results with the results reported in 1875, for some other stones. One of the limestones reported in 1875 was from the same place (Lemont, Ill.) as one of those I had included in my series, the same being used largely in this city. While at that time the strength of this stone did not reach beyond 14.000 pounds per square inch, the samples I had sent was not crushed because it ex- ceeded 100,000 pounds, the limit of the gauge. Again, one of the granites sent in my series, had been reported in 1875. I refer to that from St. Cloud. The gabbro from Duluth had also been re- ported. Neither of these then reached beyond 19.000 pounds per square inch, but now one is reported at about 26.000 pounds, and the other about 27.000. I called Gen. Gillmore’s attention to these discrepances in order that if any error had been committed it might be detected by a re- testing of his gauge, and the proper correction applied before the results were published. Subsequently Mr. Cocroft wrote me that he had the hydrostatic press taken apart and refitted, and the old gauge tested by its maker, who formed a variation of only 200 pounds in 100,000 pounds. On reporting this to general Gillmore, Mr. Cocroft was authorized to have a new gauge made, which should register 175.000 pounds. This new register was used in testing the refractory 2-inch cubes from Minnesota; hence their actual strength is as certainly ascertained as is possible with the apparatus employed. Now, in discussing this curious anomaly, in order to reach an explanation of it, we are driven to one of three conclusions. 1. Hither the cubes used were too large, or, 2. The methods are defective, or, 3. Minnesota granites are actually stronger than those of New England. (1) Were the cubes too large? I show here several surplus cubes of the same size and style, made at the same time and by the same man, with the same instruments. These are exactly two inches on aside, measured with any ordinary standard. It is evident the great excess of strength shown by the Minnesota cubes cannot be due to their greater size, since the cubes would require to have been very noticeably and remarkable greater than two inches, and they would have been condemned. (2). Are the methods defective? It would be sufficient, perhaps, to answer that the tests were made with the exactness and well- known integrity of the United States Engineers, under the direc- 2 i8 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. tion of general Q. A. Gillmore whose previous experiments and publications have made him one of the best authorities in the United States, if not in the world; and that in consequence of this phen- omenon he had special trials made, and new instruments prepared, yet with the final results stated above. It must be admitted that previous tests, made at the same place (Fort Wadsworth, Staten I.), on the stones at Duluth, Saint Cloud and Lemont, giving less com- pressive strength to those stones than now reported, throws a shadow of doubt on the correctness of the methods employed. . It may be possible to explain those three cases in some way satisfac- torily, by referring them to imperfections in the cubes. It is cer- tainly not possible to allow them to establish a rule, in the face of twenty other samples which contradict them. (3). Are the granites of Minnesota stronger than those of New England? We must either allow this, or, on account of the care- fulness of the late tests of Minnesota granites, we must impugn all the results and reasoning published heretofore by general Gillmore on the granites of New England. Allowing this, we may speculate as to its possible cause. it It had occurred to me prior to this investigation, from other con- siderations, that perhaps the last glacial movements in Minnesota were of a later date than those described in New England. The evident freshness of the drift in Minnesota, in its pose, and espe- cially of the till, compared with that of southern New England, and southeastern New York, seems to indicate the same differences as to time, of deposit. as can be inferred between the northern and the southern portions of the state of Ohio!, or the same portions of the state of Minnesota. Of course, the continuous tracing of the same lines of morainic accumulations from east to west will finally determine the eastern analogues of our Leaf Hills and Kettle mor- aines, and will give a definitive answer to this hypothesis. In the mean time, and before that is accomplished, we may perhaps account for the greater strength of Minnesota crystalline rocks by suppos- ing them less changed superficially by the process of decay, the lateness of the glaciation to which they have been subjected having left them comparatively fresh through the recent removal of a con- siderable thickness. 1 Geological survey of Ohio. 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N. H. WINCHELL, STATE GEOLOGIST. oe a REE OR T ON THE CRUSTACEA OF MINNESOTA INCLUDED IN THE ORDERS CLADOCERA AND COPEPODA, Together with a synopsis of the described species in North America, and keys to the known species of the more important genera. By @. L. HERRICK, Assistant in Zoology. MINNEAPOLIS : JOHNSON, SMITH & HARRISON. 1884. CML ARMM: 1 FATRDS ein Wet es Ct A J AOL welt OE ae are ee ee is fae wee tee en ele ei Amz ¥OQ esraao Sh) ME Caio Kiet bas verdant doy al eotiinys hed Hive Bee wieght siting Jaaheagl sco edt a6 asirange arenes 1a ‘arate ponent ayo} Rabeweranpee A ttmee 1) eyelet) al Sandee, WOVNAGH Ube = aie ei ALG by pp presenting what may be denominated a final report of the work done in this state upon the group of crustacea best repre- sented, and, all things considered, most important, the author must admit that the term “final” refers only to his own opportunities and the limitation of time imposed by circumstances. While a comparatively large proportion of all the species exist- ing within our limits have been examined during the progress of these investigations, there undoubtedly remain many additional and curious forms to reward the search of the student. A great variation in the degree of completeness with which the different genera and species have been treated will be observed, due in part to the circumstances under which they were studied, and frequently to the poverty of material. The entomostracean fauna is quite different at different seasons, and a complete knowledge of even our local fauna requires a long period of observation. Even the dead of winter is a favorable time to study some groups. The late autumn is, perhaps, the most favorable opportunity; for then, in one group, the sexual activities are just at their height, and both sexes may be studied. A number of cladocera are restricted to this season. There are a number (how large it is not yet possible to tell) of species in both groups which are to be sought by night though no phosphorescent species are yet known. Our larger, and, especially, deeper lakes have a quite different fauna from the shallow pools and rivers. In general, the flowing waters are poor in entomostraca. The cladocera or shelled entomostraca, have here received a large share of attention, and more particularly the Lyn- ceidze, which are the most minute of arthropods. This study has been rewarded with an unexpectedly large number of forms, and a particularly large number of species identical with those of Europe and elsewhere. Prof. Birge is the only American writer who has attempted this group, and his valuable work has made us familiar with the more striking new species. A few new species are included in our list and several varieties hardly yet known in Hurope. The remarkable Monospilius is among these. This ani- mal has but a single larval eye in the middle of its forehead, and + TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. wears its old covering over the newly-formed shell till the latter is a curious patchwork mass. The attempt has been made to in- corporate a brief description of all American species with those found in Minnesota, and also to frame keys for the larger genera, so that the place of a species among its congeners may, at least approximately be found. The difficulty of framing such keys is very great ; for few authors have em/ployed the same distinctions in their descriptions, and it is necessary to select points sharply distinctive and conspicuous from the often meagre remainder after striking off scattering particulars. In some eases this difficulty has been greatly enhanced by the possibility that some of the species should be considered synonyms or varietal forms. The tendency to combine questionable forms thus produced it was necessary to offset by what may seem a too great conservatism, Faulty, however, as these keys may be, it is hoped that they will serve a good purpose in the extent which they cover. While the limits of this work preclude much more than a systematic outline, opportunity is taken here and there to admit a word on the anatomy or development. Such allusions must be considered simply accidental, for a complete treatment of these subjects would require large volumes, and the material will be long in gathering. A larger proportion of the rare males of the cladocera are here referred to than in any previous work of equal extent. The genus Cyclops, one. of the bugbears to fresh-water carcinologists, is per- haps somewhat summarily treated. The excuse must be the con- dition of the synonomy. However, most of the combinations made were the result of careful study of large series from different locali- ties. The sketches illustrating this paper are photo-printed from the writer's own drawings, and, without the elegance of litho- graphs, serve the purpose of explaining points of structure which cannot be communicated verbally. I am indebted to Prof. A. S. Forbes for very timely aid in bibliography, without which the paper could not have been completed. To Dr. Lindthal, through my friend Mr. Oestlund, I am indebted for a like service. But my obligation is deepest to Prof. Rudolph Leuckart of Leipzig, who kindly afforded access to almost a complete set of works on Kuro- pean entomostraca. Prof. C. W. Hall has collected at much expenditure of time and labor a set of specimens from different parts of the state which he kindly placed in my hands, thus en- abling me to observe the great similarity of widely-separated faune. Mr. Lieberg also sent specimens of Diaptomus stagnalis from saline pools in Dakota. STATE GEOLOGIST. 5 INTRODUCTORY. ‘““Evading e’en the microscopic eye, Full nature swarms with life ; one wondrous mass Waiting the vital breath, when Parent Heaven Shall bid the spirit blow. The hoary fen, In putrid streams, emits the living cloud Of pestilence. Through subterranean cells, Where searching sunbeams scarce can find a way, Earth animated heaves. The flowery leaf ‘Wants not its soft inhabitants. Secure Within its winding citadel, the stone Holds multitudes. * * where the pool Stands mantled o’er with green, invisible Amid the floating verdure, millions stray. * * Nor is the stream Of purest crystal, nor the lucid air, Though one transparent vacancy it seems, Void of their unseen people.””—Cowper. To the poet only, and the man of science, is it given to meet ° these “unseen people” on those familiar terms which warrants the use of the word intimacy; yet may not we who, like Sam Weller, find our “vision limited,’’ because we have only eyes, avail our- selves of the kind introduction these people give us, and shake hands, as it were, though perhaps a little stiffly, with our neigh- bors, the unseen pepe Whether we like it or not—Cowper bareMies we shall not— these people, in one way or another, touch us constantly, and like diminutive sprites are ever active in hatching mischief or doing their little favors to humanity. Happily most of these are amiable goblins, and are tireless in endeavors to secure us against our insidious enemies of their own ilk. With your permission we will draw the curtain which separates us from the naiades of our pools * and streams. The numbers of living forms to be found in any pool is a con- stant surprise even to the student of this subject, and the variety and unique character of the animals, particularly, cause a constant flow of wonder and admiration. Confining ourselves to the crus- 6 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. tacean forms which are, perhaps, most typical, abundant and interesting of the smaller animals of fresh waters, it is to be re- marked that they are of a practical value to an extent which can hardly be correlated with their seeming insignificance. : To understand this fact it is first necessary to recollect that water in some form is an indispensable vehicle for the nidus of disease germs as well as of all life; desiccation means death. The abundantly-watered portion of our country must become per- meated with the pestilential hordes ingendered in its fens did not this army of devouring animalcule destroy the decaying matters accumulating in the waters. Their importance depends largely on their minute size and un- paralleled numbers. The majority of non-carnivorous crustaceans are so constituted that their diet is nearly confined to such floating particles of matter as are present in the water, in a state of more or less fine comminution; for, nearly without prehensile organs, these animals, by means of a valvular or, at most, ladle-like labrum. dip from the current of water kept flowing by the constant motion of the branchial feet, such fragments as the snail and scavenger-fish have disdained. All is fish which enters the net. Think of it, poor dyspeptic, a constant supply of food of every variety and no question asked for stomach’s sake! Bits of decay- ing alge or the broken fragments of a disintegrated mosquito, all alike acceptable and unhesitatingly assimilated. Nor is the sanitary aspect the only one in which the entomost- raca, as our minute crustacea are collectively called, command attention; they are valuable also as a food supply. Now, does some one jump at the conclusion that the water we drink is filled with aliment in such pleasant form as that repre- sented above—that Dr. Tanner after all lived on a watery solution of entomostraca? Too fast, my friend—food for fishes, but not therefore an insignificant element in our cuisine economy; for it has recently been shown by Prof. Forbes of Illinois, that some of our best fresh-water food fishes are almost dependent on some one or more species of entomostraca, Darwin shows that cats regulate the clover crop of England via field-mice and humble-bees, but it is not half as far from our “bugs” to the price of trout and white- fish. Still we are not prepared to be surprised at this, for have we not long understood that whales go fishing, with their whalebone nets, for little mollusks not big enough to excite the cupidity of the catorial small boy? STATE GEOLOGIST. 7 The fact is, that the principle laid down by the Deacon (of venerable memory) that “the weakest pint must stand the strain,” maintains in nature aside from the nature of ‘‘shays.” The minutest forms are in some sense the most important, for they are the links which stand nearest the rock, and it they be loosened the depen- dent series falls. _The animals of the above group are, it is likely, the best criteria by which to judge of the purity of natural waters if their distribu- tion were correctly understood. The presence of some species in great numbers is sufficient evidence of organic impurity. A criti- cal study of the contents of samples of such waters will enable us to determine their character almost as well as by analysis. The following list of the animal life visible in a quart of filthy pond- water, taken by simple dipping, will perhaps be suggestive on this point: EVA TATULUMD ULE DR talaiare ss chloe sieta seme a lnie e cie aie hip iois ele bh lee sieicle’e cabdiatnls sietn s+ lole/al=hu oibts 6 OCHO DAMA e aiate a «to ielals| ois. -'ese(0}s ole) ais) sleivies-isicle SHADE ON SOM aS Ite JOBE, sab pane bore 1400 SimMocephalus.......essesereee EIU at eeeie rah iet efeorcaehcrraic noel Wale whey Ninva vie evar eioieia (eral aiaysleieiatsierejs 56 TRUS a 2 oe SAY clare apn alcteleh waielels sielells wlele.e alee Nau Sslcle be je cise coh eens sieletel 50 GACTO IS Been ieete si ciais sleyale ol isierase -inje ateteiswinleleln elescle wre), Pcichyeseaiciaiase sin' Simogephalus I ae oe aa —7-—--—--MOINA-~--Ceriodaphnia see Daphnia vo < LYNCODAPHNIDA > x onakiny York Z H x ' Yy -~ ve le Macrothrix ~ : Rosini Streblocercus y ‘ se Lyncodaphnia L 4 Mle $b se j Lathonura Prepanothrit =~ SE Tae pee is Miocryptus ania 1 “ Acantholeberis Daphnia. Tue CIRCULATORY SYSTEM OF THE DAPHNIDA. In the Daphnide, and, indeed, the Cladocera in general, we meet an instance of great development of surfaces at the expense of solidity of form and compactness of organs. The whole body is composed of an aggregate of laminz, and the appendages all ap- proximate more or less toward this fundamental modification, Thus, for example, the head is aleaf-like body with a laminate shield above and a pair of flat organs beneath. Theabdomen terminates in a knife-like post-abdomen, while the thorax, with its narrow form, foliaceous feet and, far more, the enormous development of the outer wall to enclose, more or less fully, the entire body, is the typical illustration of this fact. Necessarily this structural modi- fication exerts a formative influence on the internal organs which are all more or less influenced by it; and this is peculiarly the case with the more external and, in general, the paired organs. Thus e “shell glands,” so called, which in Copepoda are generally coiled tubes, become here greatly flattened organs closely united with the shell. The physiological result of this modification is the 24 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. sensitiveness to changes in the environment, which is universal among the Daphnidw. The compact Copepoda survive the vicissi- tudes of confinement with comparative immuity, but the first taint in the water destroys the delicate organism of Daphnia. The cause for this may be found in the exposure of the most vital and delicate parts of the organism to the influences of the surrounding aqueous medium. In particular the circulatory and respiratory systems, which here are not easily to be distinguished one from the other, constitute a relatively very large area of close contact with the water. It thus happens that the central organs are influenced in a very short time by whatever deleterious substances may be dis- seminated in the water. Notwithstanding this lack of centralization, the structure of these animals is of a very considerable degree of complexity and, presenting so many instructive modifications under circumstances so favorable for study, has been very thoroughly investigated. The very transparency which has made it possible to clear up many questionable points in crustaceology from the lessons learned in Daphnia, has rendered the investigation of certain sets of organs extremely difficult, and among these may be mentioned the circula- tory system. The circulation of the nutritive fluid and the gen- eral facts connected with the heart were indeed early understood; but there remains many a detail and some important relations which are as yet either imperfectly known or entirely misunder- stood. The following notes are offered as a contribution to the, as yet incomplete, knowledge of the circulatory apparatus. The observations were confined for the most part to Daphnia scheffert and Simocephalus vetulus, with occasional comparisons with Hurycercus, Pleuroxis, Pasithea and others. It is greatly to be desired that the study might be carried to the Sididez, in which the larger size and superior transparency would doubt- less reward the search with several, as yet doubtful details. The circulation of the nutritive fluid in the Daphnide, then, is somewhat complicated, but may be divided into a superficial and a deep system. It must be remarked that this distinction is arbitrary and only used for its convenience. The one extends over the entire inner surface of the carapace, while the latter is in close relation with the vegetative organs, and extends into the branchial vessels of the feet. The nutritive fluid which is normally colorless and supplied with corpuscles of organized nutriment, (it seems doubt- ful if they should be called blood corpuscles) is confined for the most, if not its entire, course within membranous walls of connec- STATE GEOLOGIST. 95 tive tissue which, however, instead of assuming a definite form as “blood vessels,” for the most part conform to the contour furnished by the firmer organs. This membrane which is frequently folded upon itself and invests the body walls and the inner organs, is in some places free, and may be seen as a pulsating, swinging film, or, more frequently, it can only be detected as a swaying line (seen in optical sections), thus giving rise to the misapprehension that one is dealing with a thread, or as moving grains, in which case the film isitself invisible but its presence is indicated by the attached grains of protoplasm. About the heart the free swaying portions of this membranous layer are sO numerous as to render it almost impossible to distinguish the essential from the accidental appearances. This membrane must serve the most various purposes; aside from the mere retention and direction of the blood currents, it is often transformed into a branchial surface. At definite points it becomes the bearer of the cells which were above mentioned as grains of protoplasm. These are most numerous in young and well-fed ani- mals, and in particular in gravid females, while, on the contrary, mature males and females after the escape of the young, are nearly devoid of such bodies. These are most numerous in angles of the membrane, particularly about the heart, shell glands, ovaries, intestine and the branchial spaces in the feet. These cells vary in size from that of the blood corpuscles to larger cells with nuclei of comparatively very large size. It would be too much to say that such cells are developing blood corpuscles; but that they are reservoirs of nutriment which serve to supply the increased demand upon the blood in exigencies of the existence of the animal, cannot be doubted. It is a well known fact that the number of bluod corpuscles, so called, likewise varies, and apparently under the same conditions. It seems altogether _ probable that the two facts may be considered as supplementary, z. é@. that the same process of depauperating of the blood, which deprives it of its corpuscles in an earlier stage, lays waste those supplies laid up in the cells referred to (whether by their actual separation as blood corpuscles or simply desolving of the contained material is of little importance). These cells also are thus paralel- lized with the “oil globules” of Copepoda. In such copepods as Cyclops and Canthocumptus, which appear to have no differen- tiated heart, there are always present drops of colored fluid, which are most numerous in well-fed and pregnant specimens. These 26 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. drops occupy the same relative position as the blood globules of other Crustacea, 7. e., they lie within a very thin membrane cor- responding to the vascular walls of other animals. This mem- brane, in general, invests the alimentary canal, as can be very readily seen in the abdomen, where it encloses a considerable space about the intestine, which is filled with fluid, investing more or less completely the muscles and other organs. As there is no rapid circulation of blood, these ‘oil drops” are comparatively stationary, and yet are moved slowly by the constant contraction of the walls of the alimentary canal which, in the anterior part, or stomach, are thick and glandular, while in the abdomen they seem to be more fitted for respiratory function. The above arrangement in Cyclops is correlated with its com- pact habit and thick carapace, and forms a simple starting-point for the study of the circulatory system in arthropods. It seems that the walls of the membranous blood cavity are themselves also, in places, furnished with muscles, so that the fluid is not depend- ent entirely on the vermiform or the peristaltic motions of the intestine for its escape from stagnation. If this be correct, we here have an indication of the origin of the central organ of the circulatory system. But to return to Daphnia, the heart lies in the dorsal region over the intestine upon which it may be said to ride, as it were astride, though as we shall see, it is separated from the intestine by other organs. In Hurycercus this is most evident, as here the heart is more obviously biturcate. The heart and circulation in Daphnia has been described more or less at length by many authors, in particular Claus (Zur Kenntniss der Daphniden und verwanter Cladoceren. Zeitsch. f. Wiss. Zool. Bd. xxvii.) and Gruithuisen (the work of this author I have not seen), while Weismann (Ueber Bau und Lebenserscheinungen von Leptodora hyalina, 1874) describes the heart of Leptodora, and Claus (Zur Kenntniss des Baues und der Organ. der Polyphemiden), that of the Polyphemide. Other authors, except G. O. Sars, who elucidates some points in the circulation of blood in Sida, seem to have added little or nothing to our knowledge of this interesting subject. As already often described, the heart occupies a place in a definite space—the pericardial chamber—the summit of which is the dorsal shield which, we believe, should |e distinguished from the remainder of the so-called cephalic shield. (It is usual to describe the shell of Daphnia as consisting of a bivalve posterior STATE GEOLOGIST. OF portion or ormostegite, and a simple anterior cephalostegite; but it seems much more proper to consider that portion of the shell _which covers the pericardial space, and is the point of attachment of the powerful muscles of the abdomen and of the membranous walls of the pericardium, as a distinct portion of the carapace, as it often evidently appears through the presence of a distinct suture, or, in its absence, through the peculiar sculpture of the shell. In such case it might also be proper to distinguish two regions on the lateral appendages of this dorsal shield, an upper and a lower, separated by the more or less obvious line, extending from the union of the lateral lines of the dorsal and cephalic shield in nearly a straight line toward the posterior portion of the shell, and indicating the insertion of the muscles which move the feet and post-abdomen. The lateral walls of the pericardial space are the shell-walls themselves, and the floor is formed by a mem- brane supported on, and investing in part, the strong muscles which connect the abdomen with the upper anterior part of the dorsal plate. Thus a-space is left between the pericardium and the intestine which is occupied by a special blood sinus leading toward the posterior and lower part of the abdomen. ‘The posterior wall of the space is formed by a-chitinous partition which bounds the brood space, or its homologue, and is connected by chitinous processes (stutzbalken) with the outer skeleton. The anterior, on the other hand, is only bounded by the supporting ligaments of the abdomen above described and membranous partitions. As usually described, the heart lies suspended in the cavity thus de- fined, by slender muscular threads, more or less like those of the heart of Corethra larve and the like; and such seems to be the ease at first, but a more careful study shows that this is far from correct. On the contrary, the chief supports of the heart are membranes which, seen in cross-section with the attached grains or blood globules, assume the appearance of exceedingly slender structureless threads. The action of re-agents indicates that these supposed threads are not muscles, but composed of connective tissue; while by changing the focus the sharpness of the line is frequently not altered, but zts relative position is changed,—a simple test which often serves to dispel an illusion of this sort. That there are some threads of the character above mentioned is not to be doubted, as in connection with the valves of the heart; but the proper support of the heart is found in the membranes which invest it in part, and are reflected upon the walls of the shell and, anteriorly, of the intestine. It is not yet possible to fully describe 28 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. the insertion of these tissues, as there is so large a number, especi- ally about the anterior opening, where they lie in all directions and at all angles, and are so transparent, that only their vertical sections appear as dark lines. Thus the same membrane appears and disappears, only to re-appear in a different position where it might be readily taken for a distinct membrane. In general, however, I hope to make no serious error in the following sum- mary. Before going into detail, however, it will be necessary to consider the intimate structure of the heart, as well as its general shape and position. The general shape is that of au irregular oval with the greatest convexity posterior (Daphnia, etc.), or it may be strongly bifid and thus somewhat Y-shaped (Hurycercus, etc.). Itis held in position in the pericardial cavity by the membranes above alluded to, to which it is attached at definite points, the principal of which are two slight enlargements on the lower posterior portion, which are in part opposed to each other and also to a superior posterior point of insertion. All three of these points are thus keld in relation with the shell with which the attached membrane is connected on either side below and above. The membrane then extends part way along the heart wall towards the anterior and is then reflected to the shell wall. The result of this is that the pericardial space is an angular cavity opening in front. It would seem as though the membrane attaching the heart were identical with that lining the cavity itself. The heart proper is obviously composed of series of muscular elements, which are considered as simple cells by Claus, ~ and which in young individuals show very destinct nuclei of compar- atively large size. These are arranged like the meridian lines of a globe uniting above and below, thus forming the most effective apparatus possible for contracting the heart. In the smaller Daphnide, as stated by Claus, there seems to be but a single layer of muscular rays, but in D. schefferi and Simocephalus I have repeatedly satisfied myself that some of the longitudinal rays sink below the others and form a series of longitudinal muscles, as stated by earlier writers. These are furnished with a nucleus which is frequently more or less external, appearing like a spheri- cal appendage. In Leptodora Weismann has shown the heart to consist primarily of a membrane of connective tissue, upon which the muscular fibres or cells sit in somewhat the same position as in Daphnia, except that there is not the same regularity in the arrangement. There are many considerations which would lead us to expect the same structure in Daphnia, though it is not yet STATE GEOLOGIST. 99 demonstrated; and the structure of the anterior opening seems to point in the same direction. At any rate there is a close connec- tion between the muscular and connective parts of the heart. We have, then, in the heart of Daphnia a highly developed apparatus for closing it, but apparently none for its opening. This certainly is not accomplished by the few fibers which connect the heart with the shell, the very contractility of which is doubtful. Nay, more, these are insufficient even to hold it in its place in the eavity. Still less can we assume that the heart, from any inherent power, can open itself. This must be explained by the operation of two factors which are interdependent, 7. e., the elasticity of the supporting membranes and the unequal pressure of the blood in different parts of the body. 1. The membranes which support the heart are attached not at right angles, but, on the contrary, in a direction more nearly parallel to the walls of the heart, and thus whatever elasticity they possess is greatly increased; and the diminishing of the size of the heart draws these membranes out of their position at the expense of their elasticity, which tends to restore them to their original position when the pressure is removed, in the same way a drum-head returns after a blow to its normal position. This factor is, however, only operative so long as the whole system of membranes to which these belong is dis- tended with fluid. If this blood cavity be punctured, the fluid flows out and the heart shrivels. It may continue to beat for some time, but it will be seen that the effort consists simply in a vigorous contraction which is followed by no perceptible enlarge- ment. 2%. After the systcle the blood of the heart is forced toward the head, whence it is prevented from re-entering the pericardial space directly by the valves and the membrane enclosing the arterial blood. The pressure is therefore increased in all parts of the system, except the pericardial chamber where it is greatly diminished. The membranes supporting the heart are thus un- usually tense, and the muscular effort having ceased, the wails of the heart are distended, and blood flows in in the direction of the least resistance through the two lateral openings or ventral valves of the heart. The contraction of the heart during the systole is not simultaneous in different parts, but begins by the contraction of the posterior part where, being nearly free, the motion is more marked.. At the close of the systole the heart is irregularly con- tracted, the points of attachment above described being more dis- tended than the remaining portions. The anterior of the heart is rendered very difficult to study by the fact that its opening is 30 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. covered by the muscles of the mandibles and obscured by the many supporting and vibrating membranes alluded to. It is, however, suspended by two folds of membrane which I have been inclined at times to believe blood-vessels through appearances resulting from the confused currents flowing about them. The upper margin is also attached by a pair of cords directly to the superior part of the shell. The anterior opening or arterial valve is most perplexing, and the foliowing description which applies only to Daphnia schefferi must be subject to some doubt. It ap- pears however that it has been in a measure misunderstood by pre- vious writers, and namely by Claus, who compares it with that of Leptodora, which if correctly described by Weismann, is not at all identical in form, but quite comparable with one of the sides or lips of the venous opening. It does not seem to be connected by a thread, as stated for Leptodora, with the aortal bulb, for in reality there is no aortal bulb; the heart simply is connected with the system of membranes which more or less inclose the system. The floor of the so-called aortal space is a membrane which separates the outflowing stream from a current which flows toward the abdomen and passes directly under the arterial opening, so that it appears as though there was a stream entering the heart from before as well as at the sides; the arterial opening being nearer the dorsal part of the heart than is naturally expected, and the slight enlargements at the attachment of the supporting membrane favoring the im- pression that there is here a veritable opening. The out-flowing blood stream is bounded at first by the membrane above mentioned, which is farther on reflexed onto the shell and intestine so that the streams in the head flowing just under the shell are separated from the deep dorsal stream flowing from the heart.* This main current passes to the region of the eye between the horns of the cca of the alimentary canal, and thence beneath the stomach, and here divides, part becoming external and a deeper part passing un- der the intestine, thence in front of the heart, flows into the deep sinus which, as before said, passes beneath this organ. Other por- tions of the returaing stream flow around the angle of the union of the head and body and constitute a stream just above the feet in which the current flows vigorously. Yet other portions flow into the region of the shell-gland and are united with blood which here passes through the numerous sinuses described by Claus as surréunding this organ (Die Schalen- *In Pasithea rectirostris this septum is easily seen as a swaying membrane, which near the eye is reflexed to the top of the shell. STATE GEOLOGIST. 3L druse der Daphnien) and thence flows into the abdomen, uniting with the other two streams. A part also of the current in the head flows into the antennz where it follows a deep course through the basal joint in which the corpuscles may be seen to emerge to the surface from two points where are spaces between the powerful muscles, the first being near the base and the second near the ex- tremity of this joint, and then to return and join the superficial current. The corpuscles appear to enter the rami very rarely if at all. That part of the superficial stream which reaches the interior of _ the pericardial chamber passes between the muscles of antenne and jaws and seems to find its way into the great current beneath the heart, though I have also thought to have seen it flow directly into the pericardial space as the lateral superficial streams do. That part of the superficial stream which reaches the posterior margin of the shell returns through a canal formed by the walls of the shell and the brood-space,between the“stutzbalken’’of which the blood corpuscles can be seen to glide more rapidly than in the free lateral spaces. ; Lastly,it only remains to follow the fortune of the strong stream | flowing along the neutral surface of the abdomen. The strong current flowing beneath the heart enters a broad sinus which lies over the intestine and extends for over a third of its length, where its walls unite with the surface of the intestine above and thus open downward on either side. The stream thus directed flows toward the openings of the base of the feet. The structure of the branchiz has not yet been clearly described. Instead of nearly spherical or oval chambers they. are really tubes which connect, on one hand with the opening above, and below with the general cavity of the limb, whence the blood returns to the abdomen. The current is very rapid through these tubes. The blood having been returned to the ab- ~domen, courses in the well known manner through the post-ab- domen and flows over the intestine, thence over the back-flowing stream to the posterior lower opening of the pericardial chamber. The study of the actions of the heart is rendered more difficult by the fact that in order to secure the greatest possible transpar- ency, the living animal must be covered and a little pressure ap- plied, which is frequently attended with abnormal variations of the circulation. In particular if the usual exit of the blood be stopped by the ceca of the intestine, as is frequently the case, the opera- tion of the heart may be reversed, when a vigorous stream may be 32 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. seen to enter the arterial opening and emerge from the ventricles. This process would be impossible if the anterior valve were as de- scribed by Claus and Weismann; while being really more like the venous valves, it is easily and frequently permitted. The current of the blood in this case stagnates except near the heart. The rapidity of the pulsations of the heart varies with age and condition of rest or motion. In D. scheefferi this variation may range from about 150 per minute to perhaps 250, 200 being probably a fair «average. In a young Simocephalus I have observed a heart beat 300 times in a minute. Again, in aspecimen of D. Schefferi at rest the heart was beating 170, but during the spasmodic motion of feet and an- tenn the pulse rose to over 200. 1.—Genus Morna. Baird. The systematic position of this genus has been the theme of some discussion. it being claimed, with good reason, that there are many resemblances to the Lyncodaphnide (P. E. Mueller considers it a transition to the Bosminide and lyncodaphnids); on the other hand, Leydig and Kurz regard it more closely allied to the Sidide, with equally good reason. The long antenne, long narrow anten- nules and many peculiarities in form, etc., suggest the macrothroid crustaceans; the extended abdomen and especially the location of the male seminal opening are like Daphnella, which Moina resem- bles in motion and habit very strikingly. The absence of the pig- ment fleck is no more a characteristic of the Sididez than of other groups. After all has been said, the immediate affinities of the genus are acknowledged to be with the Daphnide. The true place of the genus, as it appears to the writer, was hinted at by Birge (Notes on Cladocera). Moina seems to be the pivotal point of the Cladocera, at least of the families above men- tioned. Without going into: phylogenetic speculation, it is sug- gestive that this genus can and does by preference live in very im- pure water and may therefore have had an early origin. From Moina diverges the stem of the Daphnide by way of Ceriodaphnia, Simocephalus and Daphnia. These two latter genera are intimately connected by Simocephalus daphnoides, Herrick. Scapholeberis is connected with Ceriodaphnia through S. angulata, Herrick. The Sididz seem to diverge by the way of Daphnella, through which by means of Pseudo-sida the genus Sida is reached, and final- ly Limnosida, Latona and Holopedium. The relationships of the curious Polyphemide are less evident. STATE GEOLOGIST. 88 The Lyncodaphnide make an easy transition to the Lynceids proper, while the Bosminide are still quite isolated, but are sug- _ gested by Macrothrix pauper. The fact that Moina stands thus related to radiating groups is simply suggestive, but it is sugges- tive of its possible antiquity and synthetic character. The three species of this genus stand very poorly distinguished from one another and their specific validity may be doubted. | The most exhaustive study of the embryology of the Cladocera was based on Moina. (Grobben, Entwick d. Moina, etc.) The genus is characterized by Weismann and Gruber! about as follows: : i Head prone; separated by a depression from the thorax; fornices obscure; rostrum none; pigment fleck absent; antennules of the female large, moveable; furnished with a sensitive seta near the middle, flagelliform; antennules of the male very large, hooked at the end. The setz of the antenne are all ciliate; the tri-articu- late ramus with five setz; posterior margin of the valves thicker in the median line; caudal setz very large, about twice in the length of the animal; anus above the claws; feet of the first pair of the male with a strong hook. Weismann has shown that both summer and winter eggs origi- nate from groups of four cells, one of which only is transformed into the egg, the remaining three serving simply as a supply of nourishment for the egg, which absorbs it directly. Both eggs and nutrient cells develop from the epithelium of the termination of the ovary. The summer eggs have less yolk than the winter brood, and the yolkis bluish in the summer eggs and deep red in the winter eggs of Moina rectirostris; while in M. paradoxa the sum- mer eggs have yellow and the winter set snow-white yolk. There are never more than two winter-eggs in any of the Daphnide, but there are as many as twenty summer eggs in some cases in Moina. In M. rectirostris only one winter egg is produced, which is one of the best distinctions of the species, as this is, perhaps, the only case. (Naturgeschichte der Daphnoiden, Weismann.) The first genera- tion, springing from the winter eggs (impregnated eggs), is com— posed solely of females which reproduce parthenogenetically; the second brood contains sexual males and females, thus completing the cyclus. 1 Ueber einege neue oder unvolkommen gekannte Daphniden, Freiburg, 1877. 3 34 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Sp. 1. Moina rectirostris, Mueller. (Plate A. Figs. 2, 5, 810, 11.) A. Var. vera. Daphnia rectirostris, O F. MUELLER, LATREILLE, BOSC, DESMAREST,SCHRANK,LEYDIG. Monoculus rectirostris, GMELIN, FABRICIUS, MANUEL, JURINE. Pasithea rectirostris, KOCH. Moin rectirostris, BAIRD, WEISMANN, KURZ, BIRGE. B. Vir. brachiatus. Monoculus brachiatus. JURINE. Daprnia br-wchiala, DESMAREST, EDWARDS, LEYDIG. Moina brace ata, BAIRD, WEISMANN. C. Both varieties. Moina brachiata. P. E. MUELLER. LILLJEBORG. The only tangible difference between the two forms thus united is the fact that M. rectirostris produces but a single winter ovum and hence has a one-chambered ephippium, while M. brachiata has a two-chambered ephippium. The 1: separated trom the thorax by a marked depression; there is adeep depression above the eye; the margins of the shell have few bristles. The post-abdomen,which extends far beyond the edge of the valves, bears about eleven hairy spines on either side, the lower spine being two-cleft at the end; the base of the claws bears a comb of small teeth, and the posterior margins are bristled. The ephippium is oval; and the single cavity in M. rectirostris has its longer axis horizontal, while the two cavities of M. brachiata are vertical. The depression above the eye is deeper in the males, in which sex also the antenne are longer and bent at the middle. ‘The seminal bodies are stellate. Length 1,2 mm. The form is ‘subject to the greatest variation due to the varying number of sum- mer eggs. Birge finds this species abundant. I have found both ‘this and the following species in various parts of the Mississippi walley trom Mobile to the upper river region. Sp. 2.—Moina paradoxa, We'smann. (Plate A. Figs. 1, 3, 6, 7, 9.) The species differs in a few very insignificant points from the previous one. The head is short and nearly evenly convex above, with uo deep depression above the eye; teeth of terminal claws reduced to bristles which are only a little longer than the series extending down the claw as in the above species; the first —— 1Gruber and Weism inn, ueber einige neue oder unvollkmmen gekannte Daphniden Freiburg, 1877 STATE GEOLOGIST. 35 foot of the male is furnished with a long bristle; the lower shell margins are more bristly than in the previous forms; the ephip- pium has two cavities, while the seminal bodies are crescent-shaped. Sp. 3.—Moina micrura, Kurz. This form may be of specific value, but it is not sufficiently dis- tinguished to make this certain. As described by Kurz, it seems to be smaller (1 mm.) and most to resemble M. paradoxa, which was not at that time described. The post-abdomen is short and has few -{6) spines, while the terminal claws are short and smooth; the head has a sinus above the eyes; the eyes are smaller, with numer- ous lenses; the antennules are shorter (?) than in M. rectirostris; the mandibles are partly exposed, while the shell margin overlying is notched. Males and ephippial females were not observed. Not distinguished in America. 11.—GENUS CeRIODAPHNIA, Dana. The genus Ceriodaphnia is the successor to Moina, which some Species greatly resemble; the post-abdomen, however, is shorter and has a habitus resembling Daphnia; the antennz are smaller, and the shell is thick and coarsely reticulated. Ceriodaphnia has the same general mode of life as Moina, living an muddy pools in late summer and bearing numerous broods which often greatly extend the brood cavity. The antennules are shorter but have asimilar form; the male antennze show a _ transi- tion in the various species from forms adapted for prehension to such as are found in Daphnia. The brood cavity is closed by two ridges on the abdomen instead of one, as in Moina, or three, as in Daphnia. The ephippium contains but a single ovum. In general, the form is oval or quadrate, angled but not spined posteriorly; head separated from the body by a deep depression; pigment fleck pres- ent; beak absent; antennules moveable, rather short; antennze with _ the three-jointed ramus with five sete; first foot of the male with a hook or flagellum. The members of this genus are danger signals from a hygienic point of view, for they frequent water containing decaying matter; as many as 1,400 were counted in asingle quart of such water. The genus is particularly perpiexing, as the varieties named seem to be hardly entitled to specific rank and are so similar as to re- quire great care to properly distinguish. 36 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. The following artificial key, it is believed, will assist in placing the specimens which may be obtained in America. There seems no reason to doubt that our fauna is very similar to that of north Europe. Of the twelve species here enumerated at least one-third nay be synomyms and others of the remainder are with difficulty distinguished. ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE GENUS CERIODAPHNIA. A. Shell irregularly striate. 1. C. megops, Sars. 2. C. cristata, Birge. B. Shell with hexagonal meshes. a. Shell with doubly contoured markings. (aa) Head broad, short. 8. C. pulchella, Sars. (bb) Head narrowed, depressed. 4, C. rotunda, Straus, (antennules normal.) 5. C. alabamensis, Herrick, (antennules elongate.) b. Shell simply marked. (ec) Claws with teeth, 6. C. reticulata, Jurine. [7]. C. dentata, Birge. (dd) Claws without teeth. 1. Antenne very long. 8 C. punctata, P. E. Mueller. ir. Antenne normal or short. * Post-abdomen broad, 9. C. laticaudatus, P. E. Mueller. 1mm, long. [10]. C. consors, Birge. 0.5 mm. long. ** Post-abdomen narrow. + Head not angled behind the eye. . C. quadrangula, Mueller. +t Head abruptly augled behind the eye. 12. C. scitula, Herrick, C. Sheil reticulate with rectangular meshes, 13, C. nitida, Schoedler. [14]. C. textilis, Dana. Sp.1. Ceriodaphnia megops, Sars. (Plate A. Figs. 16, 20.) Ceriodaphnia megops, SARS, P, E. MUELLER, Kunz. (The earlier synonymy is‘doubtful See note, page 26, Schoedler’s Neue Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Cladoceren. STATE GEOLOGIST. on This species is one of the largest and most readily distinguished as wellas rarest of the genus. Very characteristic is the fine an- astomosing striation which breaks up into reticulation only near the shell margins. This species seems to form the transition toward Simocephalus with Scapholeberis, which, however, diverges along its own peculiar track. The length is sometimes 1 mm. The head is obscurely angulated in front of the antennules, which are large. The antennules of the male are long and have a hooked set at the end. Typical C. megops has not yet been found in America, but the following form takes its place. Sp. 2 Ceriodaphnia.cristata, Birge. The description given by Birge would apply in almost every par- ticular to C. megops, though he seemed to overlook the close con- formity. The size is much less (0.7 mm.), and the post-abdomen seems more abruptly truncate; moreover the number of anal spines is less. The crest upon the dorsal margin may be the effect of prominences such as are described by P. EK. Mueller; at any rate, in view of the fact that but few specimens were discovered, the sug- gestion lies near that C. cristata is the young or, at least, a reduced form of C. megops. Found at Southampton, Mass. Sp 3.--Ceriodaphnia pulchella, Sars, (Plate A, Figs. 14, 19,) Ceriodaphnia pulchella, SARS, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ. Very much like C. reticulata, but smaller. Head large, turgid, and angled in front of the antennules, forming almost a right an- gle; fornices moderate; antennules rather large; shell oval, reticu- lated with double contour lines; post-abdomen of medium size, narrowed toward the end, slightly truncate, with about nine spines; terminal claws short, smooth. The flagellum of the male antennz is but slightly hooked,0.5—0.6 mm. long. This species is not cer- tainly identified from America, though a form with smooth claws and small fornices occurs with C. dentata in some places. | Sp.4. Ceriodaphnia rotunda, Straus. (Plate BL. Fig. 1, Plate A. Figs. 13 and 23.) Daphnia rotunda, STRAUS, BAIRD. Ceriodaphnia rotunda, SCHOEDLER, SARS, P. E, MUELLER, KURZ. 38 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. As said by Kurz, this species is not easily mistaken; the small head (only paralleled by the following), the very evident reticula- tions and the broad abdomen give it a peculiar habitus which is unmistakable. P Head depressed, small, spiny below, not a gulated; fornices prominent, thorned; body rotund, almost spined above; shell doubly reticulate; post-abdomen broad, with seven or eight anal spines; claws large, smooth. The male antennules are little larger than those of the female. I have not yet seen this species in America. Sp. 5. Ceriodaphnia alabamensis, Herrick, (Plate B. Fig, 2.) (American Naturalist, May 1883. Plate v, Figs. 11, 12.) This species was seen but once and is insufficiently known. The body is elongate, quadrate, the shell reticulated with double con- toar lines,the bead very small and produced downward below the eye. which is very small, the antennules are longer than in any other species, obviously two-jointed, with a lateral seta; the antenne are very long; post-abdomen long and rather narrow, with the margins nearly parallel, truncate at the end, with over nine anal spines; claws smooth, abruptly truncate. My drawing represents a daphnia-like set of processes for closing the brood cavity. Length 1 mm. (?) Tuscaloosa, Ala. Sp.6 Ceriodaphnia reticulata, Jurine, Monoculus reticulatus, JURINE. Daphnia reticulata, BAIRD, LEYDIG. Ceriodaphnia quadrangula, SCHOEDLER. Ceriodaphnia reticulata, SARS, P. E, MUELLER, KURZ, HERRICK. Head long, obscurely angled in front of the antennules; fornices very prominent; antennules small; post-abdomen of moderate size, rounded at the end, slightly tapering; about eight long anal teeth: terminal claws with a series of sharp spines at the base. The re- ticulations are sharp but simple. The flagellum of the male an- tennule is either straight or moderately curved. Kurz says that. some varieties have the fornices blunt while others are sharp. I[ have seen only the blunt form which is then much like the next. Sp. 7. Ceriodaphnia dentata, Birge. This form differs from the above only in having the inside of the claws fringed with ntinute bristles (sometimes absent), the angle STATE GEOLOGIST. 39 of the head being more marked and the fornices less prominent. It is difficult to say whether our Minnesota specimens most resemble this or the typical C. reticulata of Europe. They seem intermedi- -ate, some having fornices with an abrupt angle. It may be in- structive to quote Kurz on the European C. reticulata—“Hxamples occur 0.8-0.9 mm. long, others on the contrary only 0.5-0.6 mm. long and combining with the smaller size some differential char- acters. In the larger variety I found the fornix obtuse, while in the smaller it extends in a snarp thorn directed upward and out- ward. In this small sub-species the secondary teeth of the claws of the post-abdomen seemed to be absent, though in C. reticulata 3-5 are constantly present.” Sp. 8. Cerivdaphnia punctata, P. E. Mueller. (Plate A. Figs. 1-3.) Head depressed, rounded at the end, not angulated, ornamented with minute spines within the hexagonal areas. Fornices slightly prominent, either smooth or spiny; antennules very long; shell rotund, reticulated; post-abdomen of medium size, width nearly uniform, truncate below at an obtuse angle; anal spines large, in- creasing toward the end; clawssmooth. Length 0.7—0.9 mm. Found as yet only in Scandinavia. Sp. 9. Ceriodaphnia laticaudata, P. E. Mueller. (Plate A. Fig. 22.) Ceriodaphnia quadrangula, SARS, (fide MUEL?.ER,) Head small, depressed, rounded at the end, not angulated; forni- ces prominent; shell roundish, or sub-quadrangular, moderately reticulated; antennules rather large; post-abdomnen broad, nar- rowed from the middle to the end; the nine or ten small anal spines nearly equal; claws large and smooth. In P. E. Mueller’s time males unknown. Length 1mm. Specimens 0.6 mm. long from Minnesota agree in most respects, but the reticulation is very marked and irregular and the terminal claws are pectinate. This torm constitutes a transition to the next. A species related to C. Jaticaudata, but only half the size, was found in Clarke’s lake. a small but very deep pool, containing a fauna like that of the great lakes. The appearance is like the small form alluded to under that species, but the claws are smooth, the head is slender and strongly angled behind the eyes, and the autennules are of rather large size. The fornices are not very 40 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. prominent. The shell is large-reticulate and the abdomen is large and obliquely truncate, the anal teeth being very large and strongly curved. The only individuals seen were ephippial females measur- ing 55 mm. This may be. Sp. 10. Ceriodaphnia consors, Birge. This species differs from C. laticaudata in one or two points, being about one-half the size and having fewer caudal teeth. Birge says the abdomen is broad and obliquely truncate. The difference between being obliquely truncate and narrowed at the end in some circumstances disappears, so that really this species seems quite close to laticaudata. Found in Madison, Wis. Sp. 11. Ceriodaphnia quadravgula, Mueller. (Plate A. Figs, 17-18,) Daphnia quadrangula, O. F. MUELLER. Daphnia reticulata, BAIRD. Ceriodaphnia quadrangula, P. E. MUELLER. Head depressed, rounded at the end, only slightly angled; forni- ces prominent, antennules large; post-abdomen narrow, of equal width for the lower half, rounded at the end, with about eight small spines; claws smooth, length about 0.6 mm. This species resembles a smooth-clawed D. reticulata. Sp. 12. Ceriodaphnia scitula, (Sp. n.) (Plate B. Figs. 5-7.) One of the most abundant species of Ceriodaphnia in Minnesota is alarge form much resembling C. quadrangula. The post-ab- domen is exactly as in C. reticulata or C. dentata, which latter it resembles in having a sharp angulation in front of the antennules. The shell is oblong and heavily marked with minute, regular hex- agonal lining; the upper angle israther sharp. The head is closely appressed, the fornices are prominent and abruptly truncate at the tip, the eye is small, the pigment fleck also small; antennules short. The post-abdomer is of :moderate size, narrowed toward the end and armed with about ten powerful curved spines; the terminal claw itself is large and curved, armed only with fine spines extend- ing down the entire inner side. The size is 0.8—1.C mm.; color pinkish, opaque; antenne, especially, often bright pink. Male 0.6 STATE GEOLOGIST. 41 mm., flagellum of the male antennz long; sensory filaments Jateral, also one anterior, lateral flagellum. Distinguished from C. quadrangula by the prominent fornices, large anal spines, small reticulations, form of head and larger size. A small variety resembling the above very closely is the com- monest form in our larger lakes; the reticulation is commonly larger but less distinct, the head is depressed and narrowed, with a sinuous upper outline. The fornices are prominent and the form of the post-abdomen is exactly as in the last. The spines of the post-abdomen are very long and seated on small eminences. The length hardly exceeds .55 mm. The claw is densely ciliated, but ‘not spined; these smaller forms have but few eggs (two). The young have athorn on the angle of the fornices. Plate J. Fig. 1 represents the ephippial female of this species. There seems no reason to doubt that this is only avariety of C. scitula. The small form of C. reticulata mentioned by Kurz might be referred here, while the larger form with less prominent fornices is not so diffier- ent from the American C. dentata. Sp. 13. Ceriodaphnia nitida, Schcedler, Ceriodaphnia quadrangula, LEYDIG. This species seems to be characterized by the quadrangular form of the meshes of the shell-markings and the presence of teeth upon the claws. Sp. 14. Ceriodaphnia textilis, Dana. This species is not sufficiently fully figured to allow of a sug- gestion as to its affinities. Daphnia rotundata, Say, is very probably a member of this genus, though the description is hardly intelligible. “Body rounded behind; upper antennze three-branched, a small spine above at the joints; lower five-branched; color white. Length 0.5.” .. It is probable that we should read ‘upper branch of antenne with three setz’’, etc., in which case we may identify the above with Chydorus or the like. 111.—-GENUS SCAPHOLEBERIS. The genus Scapholeberis stands rather closely related to Cerio- daphnia, from which it is at once distinguished by the angled or spined lower posterior angle of the shell. The head is rather 42 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. clumsy, and the continuation of the fornices runs toward the apex of theincurved beak, which commonly lies within the valves of the shell. The lower anterior angle has a prominence and there is a basin-shaped area inclosing the base of the antenna, part of which lies on the shell and part on the head. This area is more strongly lined or reticulated than the rest of the shell. The lower margin is straight and terminates, in most forms, in along scythe-shaped spine which is directed backward. The shell itself is usually indis- tinctly reticulate or unmarked, and commonly is deep colored. The post-abdomen is very like Ceriodaphnia or more as in Simocephalus; the anal spines are fewand the older specimens have more than the young; the place at which additional spines are to appear is: marked by prominences. The eye is of moderate size, the pig- ment fleck rather small and the antennules short and hidden by the: beak. The antenna are of small size and generally dark colored. The ephippium contains but one egg; the males do not have al- tered antenne or feet. The sexual periods fall in early summer and in autumn, according to Weismann; the males appear but sparingly. The species 5. mucronata is very abundant every- where, while the others are less frequently seen. Sp. 1. Secapholeberis mucronata, Mueller. (Plate J. Fig. 5.) Daphnia mucronata, MUELLER, LEIVIN, LILLJEBORG, FISCHER, LEYDIG, BAIRD, HERRICK. Scapholeberis mucronata, SCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ, WEISMANN, BIKkGE, HERRICK. This wel!-known species with rather short spines below is found abundantly everywhere. In this country at least it is character- ized by a dark color. The head is large, rounded in front of the large eye, serrate below and extending posteriorly into a roundish beak, back of which are the short antennules. The fornices are very short and rounded; a line connects the fornices with the beak by a sudden deflection downward ; it sets off the area which . forms. a part of the basin of the antenne. A second line springing from just above the termination of the fornices passes over the eye by a broad curve. The post-abdomen is truncate and bears beside the terminal claws four or more spines which rapidly decrease in siz». The claws are minutely spined; the spines on the shell are of vari- abl; length, but do not exceed one-fourth the length of the re- mainder of the lower margin. This species ranges over all Europe and eastern United States. Length 0.6 mm.—0.8 mm. STATE GEOLOGIST. 43. Sp. 2. Seapholeberis cornuta, Schceiler. (Plate T. Fig. 6.) Monoculus bispinosus, DEGEER. Daphnia mucronata, var. acute rostrata. BAIRD. Scapholeberis mucronata, var. fronie cornuta, P. E. MUELLER. This species differs from the above only in having a sharp curved horn on the head in front of the eye. The use of this appendage can only be conjectured; but it may be that, like the curved beak ~ of Ripophilus, it serves to clear away rubbish in the filth in which these animals frequently live. This form, be it variety or species,, is not known in America. Sp. 3. Scapholeberis armata, (Herrick.) (Plate B. Figs. 10-11.) Scapholeberis mucronata, var. armata, HERRICK. A very beautiful and unique species, which possesses the extreme development of the peculiarities ot the genus. The head isshaped: very much as in the previous species, the fornix is squarish, the basin for the antenne is small. The upper lines from the fornix meet behind the eye; the form of the shell is as in the above, but. the spines upon the lower margin are longer. ‘The scythe-like spine-on the lower angles of the valves is extremely long, falling little short, in extreme cases, of being as long as the entire lower margin, in others about one-half as long. There are the usual lines parallel to the lower edge of the shell. The specimens hav- ing the longest spines were found in fresh water about Mobile, Ala., but the species occurs in Minnesota and intermediate points,, though speringly. 7 Sp.4: Seapholeberis nasuta, Birge. Form much as in the last, head shorter, “prolonged into a rather sharp beak, at whose apex the continuations of the fornices. unite. The beak does not project downward asin 8. mucronata, but backward, and in its natural position lies between the valves.” The usual reticulated and lined areas are present and the balance of the shell is covered with ‘small pointed projections.” ‘The anten- nules are much larger than in 8. mucronata, though they do not project beyond the rostrum.” The pigment fleck is long and large; the post-abdomen is much as in the preceding species; the terminal claws have several fine teeth. The males have the open- 44 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ing of the vas deferens close behind the terminal claws; mucro short and blunt, length 1 mm. This species is very near the next, but differs in several particulars. It forms the transition to the next, which is the extreme of the genus ina direction converse to that pursued by the S. armata. Sp. 5. Scapholeberis angulata, Herrick. (Plate B. Fig. 9, Plate T. Fig. 7.) American Naturalist, 1883. Form as in the above, but comparatively larger; valves quadran- gular, anterior margin strongly arched; head short, only slightly concave below the eyes; the beak is as in 8. nasuta, but seems to be directed more nearly directly downward than in that spacies. The antennules are long and resemble those of Simocephalus, The pigment fleck is square and rather large; the antenne are of the usual size. The reticulated areas are as in the other species. The post-abdomen is more as in Daphnia, not so squarely truncate and with five to seven large teeth; the first foot has one elongated jointed seta; the posterior angle of the shell has no spine, at most there is a somewhat prominent acute angle, the inner shell layer is armed at this point with some elongated teeth as in the corres- ponding situation in Simocephalus. On the whole, there is a similiarity to that genus in this as well as in the previous species. S. nasuta has a short spine and elongated pigment fleck; the pres- ent species has a squarish but rather large fleck and no spine; the post-abdomen has a greater number of spiues than any other species. South of Tennessee river, in Alabama and Mississippi. The species of this genus are predominatingly American, four out of the five being found in the United States; the fifth, more- over, is more often regarded a variety of one of the others; in fact, the absence of S. cornuta from America is one of the most impor- tant supports of the specific independence of the two forms. All the species delight in disporting themselves near the surface in sunny weather. 1v.—GENUS SIMOCEPHALUS. Although a very well circumscribed group, this genus passes into the next rather directly by means of S. macrothroides. The connection on the other hand seems to be by the way of Scaphole- beris, though there is a rather broad separation between even Scapholeberis angulata and any known Simocephalus. The en- STATE GEOLOGIST. 45 larged spines near the angle of the shell and the form of the an- tennules as well as some other points, show a transition through that species toward the present genus. The general form is quad- rate with the lower posterior margin sinuate; in young specimens the shell is nearly a perfect rectangle. The upper margin is pro- duced more or less at the point of union with the free posterior margin and the shell is either arched or very abruptly angled above the prominence in old females. The head is produced into a projection at the eye while the beak proper is between the ante- rior margins of the valves; the pigment fleck is rather large and variously shaped. The fornices are larger than in Scapholeberis and extend to the front of the head over the eyes; the antennules _ have a lateral flagellum which is large and lance-shaped. The post-abdomen varies very little in shape; it is truncate and exca- vated below and very broad. The anal teeth are few, large,curved, pectinate; the claws are straightish and pectinate or spined; the labrum is shaped as in Daphnia; the anterior part of the stomach has the usual ceca. The members of this genus are among the most abundant and conspicuous of the family and are more persistent during the changing seasons than any other form. 8. vetulus, the common- est species, stands in the centre of the genus, while two extremes are expressed by the other members of the group. The winter or sexually produced eggs are lodged in an ephippium or saddle-like modification of the shelJ, which is. finely reticulate; while the shell is usually marked by fine?anasta- mosing lines which, in some species, show clearly their derivation from a rather fine hexagonal marking. The sexual: periods, when males are produced, occur in autumn and spring. The males have few distinguishing characteristics, the form being that of the young female. The opening of the vasa differentia is back of the anus, hence these ducts cross the course of the intestine. They have ejacula- tory muscles about the lower part. The smaller species are fre- quently deeply colored with pink, purple and brown fatty deposits. and the markings are more conspicuous than in the American Kurycercus, which is itself often brightly spotted with blue or pur- ple. The aspect in the water is between that of Kurycercus and Daphnia. The first mention made of any member of this genus in America is Say’s description, repeated in Dekay’s Crustacea of New York, of Daphnia angulata. This description which follows is quite suffi- 46 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. cient to identify the genus, and indeed to indicate that either S. americanus or a related form is intended, but it is hardly compe- tent to alter names the significance of which is quite clear. “Sides striate with numerous parallel minute oblique lines; hind edge of the body with a prominent angle in the middle, Antenne with four filaments on the upper and five or the lower branch. Color white or red. Length 0.1; stagnant water in the forests of the Southern States.” Sp. 1. Simocephalus vetulus, Mueller. Daphnia vetula, BAIRD, HERRICK. Daphnia simat MUELLER, LATREILLE, BOSC, RAMDOHR, GRUITHUISEN, DESMAREST LAMARCK, M. EDWARDS, KOCH, GMELIN, MANUEL, JURIN#E, LIL- LJZBORG, LEYDIG. Simocephalus vetulus, SCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ, WEISMANN, CLAUS, DuTz, BIRGE. This commonest and one of the largest species is apparently dis- tributed over the northern hemisphere and abounds in all the more shallow lakes. ‘The head is rounded in front and is not an- gled between the prominence of the eye and the beak. The body is very large and not abruptly angled above, the spine of the shell being inconspicuous and high, so that the free posterior edges of the shell lack little of equalling the greatest hight of the shell. Theshell is covered with minute dense striations which spring from the free edges. The pigment fleck is elongated in old specimens and the upper angle follows up beside the suture sepa- rating the antennary basin from the rest of the shell of the head. The antennules are ornamented with minute spines. At the lower angle of the shell are three curved spines which differ from the preceding filaments. The number of eggs which are produced at unce is truly immense. Under favorable circumstances this species reaches a large size, falling little if any short of 3mm. 5. vetulus lives, by preference, among the leaves of aquatic vegeta- tion. With us this species seems to live in the smaller pools as well as in lakes of some size. J am not able to see any difference in this respect between the various species. Sp. 2. Simocephalus serrulatus, Kcch. Daphnia serrulata, KocH, LLEVIN, FISCHER, LILLJEBORG. Simocephalus serrulatus, LEYDIG, SCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ. Head narrow, extending anteriorly into a sharp spiny angle in front of the eye. Dorsal line of the shell abruptly angled or curved posteriorly, projecting to form a broad obtuse spine behind; STATE GEOLOGIST. 47 this spine is serrate with sharp teeth and lies somewhat above the middle of the hight of the animal, so that the free posterior mar- gins of the shell fall much short of reaching the greatest hight of the shell. Post-abdomen of the usual form, with the claws armed with two series of spines or bristles, the outer being much the larger; anal teeth curved or angled, dentate; pigment fleck tri- angular orrhomboidal. Length 2.0 mm.,2.5 mm. I am not sure that the three following species are more tkan varieties; the first in particular is very close to the European type. Sp. 3.—Simocephalus congener, Birge. My own observations of this form made throughout the Missis- Sippi valley are not in complete accord with the description of Birge, but it seems improbable that there is any mistake in the identification. The very generally distributed form on which this species rests 1s subject to marked variations within certain limits. This species differs from S. serrulatus in the following points. The head, although prominent and spiny near the eye, is not an- gled between this prominence and the beak; in fact, it is either straight or simply curved. The pigment fleck is usually rhom- boidal and only occasionally oval, triangular or irregular. In other respects the agreement is rather close; the terminal claws have two series of spines, one of which is larger (not, as said by Birge, equal); the outer series is not so much larger as in S. rostra- tus, but not nearly as inconspicuous as in 8. vetulus. The termi- nal claws are rather evenly curved. This species is frequently col- -ored with pink or brown markings. In old females the back is squarely augled above, forming a pocket for the eggs. The size - falls short of that of the last species. I have found this species from the gulf of Mexico to Minnesota. Sp. 4.—Simocephalus rostratus, (Sp. n.) This form is of the size and color of S. americanus, and approaches nearest to Schodler’s 8S. expinosus in general characters. The back is arched above but not abruptly angled; the spine is as in S. amer- icanus but not so low. The free posterior shell margins are some- what shorter than the greatest hight of the shell. The head is produced below the eyes in an angle like a right angle, which is not spiay. The lower margin of the head is exeavated to form a right angle, and in front of the smooth antennules forms a very “prominent beak, beyond which the antennules reach but a short 48 TWELFIH ANNUAL REPORT. distance. The terminal claws of the post-abdomen are straightish and are more heavily spined than in the preceding; the anal spines. are doubly curved or geniculate. The pigment fleck is rhomboid or pentagonal; the antennules are smooth. The abdominal pro- cesses differ somewhat from the previous species, in which the second one is rounded above, for in this it is squarely truncate. This species was found only in shallew pools at Ocean Springs, Missis- sippi, and was very carefully compared with S. americanus which is also found there. Sp. 5. Simocephalus exspinosus, Koch. Head extending into an obtuse angle at the eye, pigment fleck rhomboidal. Shell without a spine; maximum hight of the shell greater than that of the free posterior margin. Caudal claws with an unequal series of spines; anal spines evenly curved. There is little to distinguish the above from this species save the geniculate anal spines and the presence of a blunt spine on the shell. Var. congener, Schoedler, has the lower outline of the head sinuate instead of angled. Sp. 6. Simocephalus daphnoides, Herrick. American Naturalist, 1883. A curious transition form, found only south of the Tennessee river, was described in the American Naturalist in May, 1883, under this name. By an oversight a comparison made with 8. americanus appeared as though made with §. vetulus. The general shape is oval; the greatest hight of the valves lies near the middle and not. posterior to it as in all the other species. The head is short, de- pressed, rounded in front; the beak is wanting; the lower margin of the head is straight. The pigment fleck is small, oval or irreg- ular; the fornices are small and short. The antennules are smooth. The post-abdomen is narrow, shaped more as in Daphnia; the terminal claws are straightish and fringed part way with spines; the anal spines are slightly curved. The processes of the abdomen are long, asin Daphnia. The shell is covered by the characteristic striations and extends into a blunt spine. In every detail, almost, there is an approach toward the genius Daphnia, while the general result is sufficiently like Simocephalus, The lower angle of the shell is not armed with the peculiar curved spines as in all the other STATE GEOLOGIST. 49 species. This species begomes over 1-10 inch long. In such old individuals the spine is nearly midway of the hight. One could wish a trifle closer link to Scapholeberis than that furn- ished by 8. angulata; but. on the whole, the’position of this genus can not well be called in question. America has four species out of the six known and but one of these certainly identical with the European, though others are probably too closely related. Norse.—On p. 47 read S. Americanus, Birge, not S. Congener. v. Genus DapxHntia. Long considered the type of the family, this genus is most fre- quently seen, or, at least, is more conspicuous than any other group. It has already been pointed out that the forms here united are the extreme development ofa diverging line. Simoceph- alus is the link connecting it with the typical forms of the fam- ily. As might be expected, this genus presents more puzzling problems than any of the others. It contains more peculiarities of structure and diversities of habit and development than any other of the genera. Here the sexual differences are most inter- esting. The young are hatched with a pendant appendage at- tached to the upper posterior angle of the shell, which soon be- comes the rigid spine characteristic of the younger stages and _ males of the genus. The females almost immediately after birth commence the production of eggs by an asexual process. Groups of epithelial cells containing four each are formed and one of the cells of each group develops at the expense of the others, forming the egg. Many such eggs are laid simultaneously and deposited in the cavity between the shell and the dorsal part of the animal. The eggs are prevented from escaping by means of three long pro- cesses, of which the first is much the larger and curves forward. At stated periods in spring and autumn the males appear; the fe- males of the generation in which occur the males have a tendency to produce eggs of a different sort charged with a different mis- sion, At the same time the upper portion of the shell (that sur- rounding the brood cavity) becomes finely reticulated and pigment is deposited between its layers. This ephippium, as it is called, in _ allusion to its saddle-like form, is the case in which the winter egg is to pass the period of cold or drought which is to follow. The method: of the formation of the ephippium is obscure and, in spite of the investigations of Lubbock and Smitt, considerable re- mains to be learned with reference to this interesting modification of the shell. Some rather careful study has been devoted to this 4 50° TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. subject by the writer, but it was unfortunately interrupted before completion. The most promising method of persuing the investi- gation is that of sectioning ephippial females in various stages with the microtome. A preparation of soap was employed with partial success as a medium for embedding, and figures of some of the many sections made are drawn on plate P. Figure 10 is a ver- tical section through the middle of an ephippium which has been cast off. The outer and inner shell layers are distinct and one of the eggs is divided in the middle. No pigment or protecting ma- terial was deposited in this case, which is the simplest possible. Fig. 9 represents a section just back of the head; it passes diagon- ally, severing the heart longitudinally (h). The intestine (a), the ovaries (g), the mandible (m), the labrum (1), and certain suspen- sorial muscles (?) are seen in situ. Only a portion of the ephip- pium is cut and the double layers enclose a large mass of protec- tive matter. Fig. 8 is a vertical section through the middle of the animal, and the usual form of the ephippium is seen with its large amount of protective matter obscuring all else. Fig. 7 is a longi- tudinal section of an ephippium similar to that seenin Fig. 10. It is hoped to present at some more appropriate time a fuller account of the formation and process of moulting this saddle. DEVELOPMENT OF DAPHNIA. Although the careful researches of Claus and Grobben have ad- ded much to our otherwise rather meager knowledge of the develop- ment of the cladocera, there still remain many interesting points, particularly with reference to the individual species, which merit careful study. Ihe following observations relate to the single species (D. scheefferi) which was available during a short stay in Leipzig: The winter eggs of D. schefferi are two in number and are lodged in the well known manner in an ephippium. The shape of these eggs is sharply ovoid, there being no distin- guishable difference between the two ends. The position in the ephippium is not, as might be expected, with the longer diameter paralled to the axis of the body, but the posterior end is slightly elevated. This is undoubtedly due to frequent elevation of the abdomen between the valves during the extrusion of the eggs. The color is dark green and the only protection as the egg leaves the ovary is a thick, tough shell which is at first so soft as to be susceptible to pressure. It is thus reticulated, apparently through the simple pressure of the walls of the ephippium. STATE GEOLOGIST. ob The length is 0.438 mm.; width .33 mm. in the average, though eggs were occasionally found of an elongated form, measuring .48, .381 mm. The contents of the egg consist of spheres of greenish plasma of various sizes and fat or oil drops. These oil globules are not very numerous as compared with those of the summer eggs, and likewise never attain the dominant size seen in the latter. The various forms assumed by the plasma balls are perplexing but frequently result from the action of external agents. The cleavage stage was not seen, and if actual segmentation takes place, it must be inconspicuous as would be expected from the large quan- tity of yolk present. The differentiation of the blastoderm occurs very early, perhaps in the ovary itself, and the result is a tolerably uniform layer of prismatic cells. The egg now comes to a period of repose after the blastoderm has produced a second external envelope apparently by simple secretion. This envelope consists of a fine structureless membrane. The ege, under ordinary circumstances, remains dormant during the winter in this most favorable stage. The reason for which is evi- dently the fact that the differentiation has proceeded to the extent of producing the greatest number of. protective layers without materially increasing the complexity, and thus the sensitiveness, of the organism. Under favorable circumstances the development proceeds farther and near one pole appears a slight indenture of the surface which grows deeper aud seems to form a true invagina- tion. This blastopore, if such it really be, remains for some time, generally till the two ‘‘ scheitel ” plates appear. These ‘‘scheitel- platte” are formed by a simultaneous thickening and lengthening of the cells of limited areas on opposite sides of the egg, near the opposite pole from that occupied by the blastopore. The ‘‘scheitel- platte” are situated at right angles to a plane perpendicular to the blastopore. The nuclei of the cells of the “scheitelplatte’” are nearly .0208 mm. in diameter, while those of the other blastoderm cells are about half that size. The egg remains a long time in this stage, while the following stages are passed through quite rapidly till the embryo assumes its nauplius form. The remainder of the development agrees, so far as seen, quite fully with that of the summer eggs, to which we will now return. The summer eggs vary greatly in size and number, but are nearly as large as the winter eggs. The number is sometimes re- duced to two or three or rises to as many as fifteen or even more. In color the eggs also vary from green to brown. The fresh egg 52 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. consists, as the winter egg, of two sorts of yolk spheres. The plasma or formative yolk contains colored globules of rather small size, distributed throughout the whole of the mass quite uniformly. The food yolk or oil globules assort themselves in two sizes; first, a few (generally three) very large oil drops, which persist through- out the ealier stages of the embryo; second, smaller globules of ap- parently the same character, which are quite numerous and form a very considerable part of the contents of the egg, In an egg of about .85 mm. in diameter, the largest of the smaller size of oil drops measured .029 mm. while the larger three exceeded .060 mm. The oil drops are distinguishable by their light refractive power, pellucidity and the intense dark brown or black color assum- ed when treated with osmic acid. The latter reagent affects the formative yolk but slightly. It will be seen that though the sum- mer egg is nearly as large as the ‘dauerei” in some cases, yet the relative amount of formative yolk is more diverse than at first appears. The great similarity between the two sorts of eggs in Daphnia schaefferi is throughout striking as compared with Moina, the only one of the Daphnide the development of which is fully studied. In the summer eggs I have not been able to see the complete seg- mentation described for Moina. The following stages are much as described by Grobben. An invagination occurs anda median swelling appears on the ventral aspect of the egg. Labrum and second antennez bud out and are soon followed by the antennz, mandibles and two pairs of maxilla, after which the five pairs of feet soon appear. In an early stage there is present a basal palpus to the second antenne, a fact not before observed, and this persists as the small two-bristled wart found on the basal joint of the antenna. [tis a conspicuous object in the embryo and is thus a true embryonic organ. The eyes of the embryo appear as two separate pigmented flecks which approximate and are covered with an oval refractive body, which later is penetrated by the pigment and divides to form the small lenses. Soon after this the shell grows over the eye as de- scribed for Moina. The first indication of the shell appears as two folds of the max- illary region of the back, being thickest laterally. These grow forward and backward to form the cephalie and body shield. At a little later stage there appears a very interesting modification of the shell which stands in close relation to the growth of the brood sac. A slight protuberance appears on the margin of the shell in STATE GEOLOGIST. 53 the median dorsal line and extends: toward the abdomen. It grows much more rapidly than the other parts of the shell and, in a later stage, forms a comparatively enormous tail, which curves under the animal between the shell valves which now extend be- yond the body. This “tail” extends well along the ventral mar- gin of the shell and reminds, by its position, of the tail of a fright- ened dog. The true tail, or post-abdomen, is, in the meanwhile, well developed and is constantly kicking the useless protuberence of the shell upwards. As the animal leaves the egg this projec- tion becomes straightened as in the young D. pulex, finally be- eoming the still considerable spine, though it is proportionately much shorter than in the embryo. The spine becomes shorter with successive moults and the mature form has only a slight rounded knob in place of a spine more than half the length of the body. The use of the long spine in the young Daphnia is a matter of interest. Its length agrees pretty well with that of the brood cavity and it seems possible that it serves to prevent the shell from bending abruptly down when it is only partially removed during the moult and thus breaking off and so leaving ‘a portion of the clothing of the brood-cavity therein to become a source of irritation. ‘This is more necessary for the young since the brood avity is narrow and the shell weak, so that while the outer shell is removed like a glove from the finger, it can not be pulled up- ward or downward, but directiy backwards. It is well known that male Daphniz often have the spine, while the females may have none, and here again it is possible that the narrower cavity over the abdomen requires this assistance, while this is not the case with the females. The shell gland is early formed and the branchial lamelle of the feet appear almost simultaneously with the feet themselves as distinct lobes. The branchial chamber is not a simple chamber, but is essentially a curved tube as can be very well seen in the last foot of the adult. This tube doubles upon itself and crosses in the manner of a loop and a constant stream flows rapidly through it. The nervous system is, at first, paired from beginning to end and first unites anteriorly, the ocular ganglia fuse after the union of the two pigment flecks in the compound eye, then the cephalic ganglion is formed by the union of the two precesophagal ganglia, the commissures passing about the cesophagus. I have not been able to determine if the subcesophagal ganglia become fused. From the anterior ganglia spring the nerves to the autenne and 54 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. jaws, which latter are the larger in the embryo, being exceedingly large nerves. This key contains the majority of the genus, but falls short of - completeness. The following species are uncertain. W.Schman- _kewitsch described as new D. degenerata and D. rudis, from salt or brackish waters. These he regards as degenerate forms produced by the inferior aeration of dense waters. The author does not appear to recognize the modern distinctions of genera so that, not. having seen the work, even the generic position can not be defi- nitely stated. His investigations seem to show that the proximity of salt waters influence the form of the body, or, perhaps, that. there is a constant interchange between the sub-marine and fresh- water species. Daphnia brevicauda, Chambers, is an incorrectly figured and described Simocephalus. Key To THE Genus DAPHNIA. Section 1. Pigment fleck present. A. Head short, equally rounded. 1. D. psitiacea, Baird. B. Head not regularly rounded, more or less beaked. (a) Claws spiny. I, Abdomen broad, series of anal spines nearly equal, neither head nor back Keeled. + Amarked sinuosity in the posterior outline of post-abdomen. 2. D. schefferi, Baird. D. ovata, Sars. D. pennata, Mueller. ++ No well marked depression. 3. D. pulex, Mueller. 4. D. schedleri, Sars. D. hastata, Sars. D, obtusa, Kurz. 11. Abdomen narrow, shell keeled somewhat dorsally. 5. D. minnehaha, sp. n. 6. D. carinata, Sars. (b) Claws nearly or quite smooth. I. Head not crested. 7. D. longispina, Leydig. 8. D. rosea, Sars. 9. D. similis, Claus ' D. lacustris, Sars, D. cavitrons, Sars. 10. D. hyalina. Leydig. 11. D. dubia, Herrick. STATE GEOLOGIST. 55d D. pellucida, P. E. Mueller. D. galeata, Sars, 12, (2) D. levis, Birge. Section 1. Pigment fleck absent. A. Head but slightly crested. 1. D. longiremis, Sars. B. Head strongly crested. 2. D. cristata, Sars. 3. D. cucullata, Sars. D. apicata, Kurz. 4, D. kalbergensis, Schoedler. D. cederstromii, Schoedler. D. retrocurva, Forbes, D. vitrea, Kurz. 5. D. magniceps, sp. n. SEcTION |. A. Head short, evenly curved. Sp. 1. Daphnia psittacea, Baird. Mentioned by SCHOEDLER, FRIC and KURZ. This species is at once recognized by the head, which is very short and evenly curved, or nearly so, from the heart to the beak. The shell js high, oval, with a rather short spine. The fornices are wide and angled behind: the antennules are longer than in most species; the post-abdomen is very large, but narrows toward the end and has comparatively few anal teeth, which are of une- qual size. This is one of the largest of the genus. Not yet found in America. B. Head more or less concave below, at least not evenly arched. Sp. 2, Daphnia scheefferi, Baird. (Plate M. Figs. 14.) Daphnia pennata, MUELLER. Daphnia pulex, STRAUS, KOCH, (fide P. E. MUELLER.) Daphnia magna, LILLJEBORG, LEYDIG, ete. Daphnia scheffert, SCHOEDLER, KURZ. The largest species of the genus, is of an elongated oval and ventricose form. The spine is entirely absent in old females and of only moderate length in the young. The antennules of the male are long and have a very long flagellum. The post-abdomen is narrowed suddenly below the anus so that the spines consist of two sets; the terminal claws are spiny at the base. Although 56 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. very similar to D. pulex, it may be recognized at once by the con- cavity of the dorsal margin of the post-abdomen. The plate will make any detailed description superfluous, A common species in Europe, but not yet found in America. Daphnia ovata, Sars, seems probably this species, but Sars was troubled by Straus’ mistaken reference. Daphnia pennata of Sars may alco be this species or, more prob- ably, D. pulex. The Latin discription given by Sars is appended for convenience of reterence. Daphnia pennaita, Sars. “Antecedenti (D. pulex) simillima, caput autem a latere visum latius, rostro breviore, supra visum testa cetera parum angustius fere cordiforme, antice acuminatum. Pro- cessus anteriores duo disjuncti. Margo posterior postabdominis in medio sinulo parvo et infra hune utrinque aculeis 16-18 armatus. Color ut in antecedente. Longit.2344mm.’”° Daphnia ovata, Sars. “Caput alatere visum ante oculum fere angulatum,margine inferiore leviter concavo in rostrum longum apicem versus attenuatum, extremitate tenuissima exeunte, spura visum ut in D. pennata cordiforme. Testa cetera a latere visa ovata, margine superi- ore et inferiore in femina adulta fere zeques arcuatis, postice in medio spinam formans brevissimam vel omnino obsoletam. Processus anteriores duo abdominis disjuncti- Margo posterior postabdeminis in medio sinuatus, utrinque aculeis 20-22 armatus. Color albido—flavescens vel-virescens. Longit. circit 3mm.” Sp. 3. Daphnia pulex, Mueller . This commonest of our Daphnids is apparently cireumpolar in distribution. I have found it in Alabama near the Gulf and it also occurs near lake Superior. Oval, either elongate or short, spine springing from the upper angle of shell or in some cases near the middle. The spine is rather long in young individuais but becomes very narrow in: older ones or entirely disappears. The abdominal processes are long, not coalescent, or slightly united at the base. The head is concave be- low and extends into a prominent beak. This species is either very variable or several species are frequently united under the term. Two types have been recognized in America. One, abun- dant in spring in smaller ponds in Minnesota, is rather short, arched above, and in old females with the spine situated near the middle of the posterior margin. This form is quite typical for the species and occurs from April to mid-summer. Another variety was found in Alabamain late autumn, and similar animals in mid-winter in lake Calhoun, Minnesota. This type has a much more elongate body, the very slender but rather short spine springs from the upper STATE GEOLOGIST. 57 margin of the shell or is quite wanting. This longer form has the beak slightly arched so as to resemble a “‘Roman nose.” ‘The anal spines are less numerous (10-14 while typical D. pulex has nearly 20). The young of this form, which may be ealled Daphnia pulex, var. nasutus, (Var. n.) (Plate N. Figs. 1-4.) vary much among themselves but, in general, resemble the young of the European form. Daphnia pulex has been mentioned by a number of authors in America, Smith, Birge, Chambers and Herrick having noted its occurrence in various parts of the United States. D. obtusa, Kurz, is apparently only the spineless condition of the above or a related species. No Daphnia is without the spine through life; such a form would constitute a new genus at once. Sp. 4. D. schoedleri, Sars. Seems to resemble D. pulex very closely but differs in having the lower margin of the head nearly straight, terminating in a short straight beak. The spine springs from the middle of the posterior margin. The anal spines are 14-16 in number. Length 2.33 mm. This name is applied by Sars to Schoedler’s D. longispina which is not D. longispina of Leydig. Sars’ D. hastata is so insufficiently defined that it will probably be necessary to drop it from the list. Sp. 5. Daphnia minnehaha, (Sp. n ) (Plate K, Figs. 1, 2; Plate L, Figs. J, 2.) This species, which occurs in small pools in autumn (affluents of Minnehaha creek, etc.,) closely corresponds apparently to Sars’ Daphnia carinata but differs in numerous points. It, in fact, is more nearly related to D. pulex than the group under which that species is placed. The form is oval, arched above, narrowed posteriosly, terminat- ing in a rather short spine which curves lightly upwards. In males and young females the spine springs from the upper angle, but in old females having many summer eggs the spine is nearly median- The head is depressed, strongly arched and keeled slightly above the eye, which occupies the extreme end of the forehead. The keel of the head extends into a slight angle over the heart and continues 58 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. down the back. In young females and in males the slight angle is replaced by a strong knife-like projection which extends into from 1 to 4 sharp teeth, the anterior tooth being directed forward. The males, in particular, have this feature emphasized. D. long-. ispina has a somewhat similar projection but the more nearly re- lated forms seem not to show this peculiarity, The beak is slightly curved and the lower margin of the head is slightly sinuate. The shell has the usual square reticulations and is usually very trans- parent but in peaty waters becomes brownish. The size is small but variable; 1.8 mm. is acommon measurement. The post-abdo- men is narrow, the claws are armed with four or more teeth and a series of lateral bristles. The anal spines are eleven or more in full grown females and decrease only moderately upward. The processes of the abdomen are distinct. The males are smaller and strongly carinated above and of the same form as young females The antennules are.rather long, with a short lateral and a long terminal flagellum, which latter is more than twice the length of sensory setz which are partially lateral. The first foot has a strong claw and a long flagellum, while the second feet have a small spiny hook. There is a single abdominal process which is not hairy as in D. pulex. Sp. 6. Daphnia carinata, Sars. Very similar to the last but, according to Sars, the claw has no well marked teeth, ashort flagellum on the male antenna, and the abdominal processes are united at the base (which may indeed be sometimes the case in the above.) D. cavifrons, Sars, has a prominence on the forehead and the lower margin of the head is strongly concave, otherwise hardly destin- guishable save by the absence of the keel above. Sp. 7. Daphnia longispina, Mueller. D. longispina, O. F. MUFLLER. BATRD, LEYDIG, SARS, P. E, MUELLER, KURZ, WEIS- MANN, etc. Oval, elongate; head large, rounded in front, lower margin some- what concave; rostrum long. Spine very long, springing from the middle of the posterior margin. Post-abdomen attenuated toward the end. Terminal claws smooth or simply cilate, spines few. The abdominal processes are united at the basea very little, Flag- ellum of the male antennule hardly longer than the sensory sete. The young have three teeth above as in D. minnehaha. There is STATE GEOLOGIST. 59 a great deal of diversity of opinion as to the vaiue of this name. Not that there is any doubt of the existence of a widely distributed form which in general is that intended by Leydig and others, but the variation is so great that the possibility remains that more ‘than one species is included under the one title. P. E. Mueller recognizes two varieties depending chiefly upon the length of the spine. D. lacustris, Sars, is nearly related, if not a variety of the above. Sp. 8. Daphnia rosea, Sars. (Plate K. Figs, 10-12.) Tn form very like D. longispina, this species, which is the only representative of this smooth-clawed, unkeeled group yet found in America,might perhaps be appropriately re-united with that species, but, as there seems little doubt of the identification with Sars’ va- riety, as above, I prefer to use his name. Body oval, moderately ventricose; head of moderate size, lower margin nearly straight; eye situated in the anterior prominence. The beak is not very prominent. The upper outline of the head is slightly concave above the eye or rather less convex. The head is separated from the body by a marked depression. The spine of the shell springs from the upper angle or is quite wanting. The post-abdomen is of moderate size, somewhat narrowed toward the end. The claws are smooth, the anal spines nearly equal, straight, about 14 in number. The abdominal processes are not coalesced or but slightlyso. Length 1.50 mm. to 2.0 mm. The species was coilected sparingly in a large gathering of D. pulex from a small lake in early spring. The size and conformation of the abdominal processes is very variable and the long and very slender spine is frequently absent. Sp. 9. Daphnia similis, Claus. The description of this species, which was bred in confinement from eggs brought in mud from Jerusalem, I am, unfortunately, unable to quote. Judging however, from the figures which alone I now have access to, it belongs in the group of D. longispina, though in many particulars it resembles D. scheefferi. The form is elon- gate, the spiue short and springing from the upper margin. The antennule of the female is very large and flagellate, while that of the male is like that of D. schefferi. The flagellum and hook of the first foot of male are rather small. 60 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. We now come to a group of related species which are most dif- ficult to cireumscribe on account of their extreme variability. Ac- cording to the view of Lutz they would all fall into the old D. hyalina of Leydig. More probably, however, some of these forms are of nearly or quite specific value. Sp. 10. Daphnia hyalina, Leydig? (Plate L, Figs. 3, 5.) Daphnia longispina, HERRICK. I have elsewhere given a brief account of the post-embryonic de- velopment of a species which agrees best with Leydig’s figures of D. hyalina. The lower outline of the head is nearly straight, the eye being always approximated toward it. In young specimens the head is sharp in front and crested. The lower margin of the head appears very long and the beak turns backward. The spine:is very long in young forms but is short in old females. The male resembles very much the young female. The post-abdomen is narrowed toward the end, the terminal claws are smooth, the anal teeth few and the abdominal processes united. Our specimens are from Paducah, Ky., south of the Ohio river. Ido not know how to distinguish D. levis, Birge, from D. hyalina, save that the abdominal processes are said to be distinct. Both forms were observed in the above mentioned gathering. If, how- ever, Birge’s figures are characteristic, he had a different variety before him from ours; it seems somewhat like D. galeata. D, pellucida, P. HE. Mueller, differs from D. hyalina in the pre- sence of aseries of small teeth on the caudal claws, and a more strongly curved beak. It is just now brought to my attention that P. E. Mueller, in a late work, identifies D. pellucida with D. hyalina, though he still holds D. galeata distinct. Daphnia galeata, Sars. (Plate T. Figs. 7, 8.) According to P. EK. Mueller, this species differs from D. pellucida in the absence of teeth on the caudal claw, and, in one variety, by the acuminate head, which seems the only form for which the name is distinctive. Kurz found ouly the var. frons rotundata. Accord- ing to Forbes, both varieties, the first of which he identifies with D. pellucida, vecur in lake Michigan. STATE GEOLOGIST. 61 S. I. Smith finds both in lake Superior, and seems to have no doubt of their distinctness. One of the forms which | have seen differs a little from either of the above, and had a different habitat. Kurz has described the male, which has avery short flagellum upon the antennule. A single source for D. galeata was found ina small pool known as Clarke’s lake. This is the more remarkable, as this species, which is almost confined to larger bodies of water, is found nowhere else in the vicinage of Minneapolis, while this minute lake, though as deep, perhaps, as any of the largest in the county (say 40 feet), contains a number of forms known otherwise only in the Great Lakes. Kurz’s remarks on the specimens collected by him apply equally to these. Were the claws dentate, the animal would pass as D. pellucida. The young have no horn on the head. The spine of the shell is nearly as long as the whole animal in the young. The male of our form is 1.2 mm, long, excluding the spine which measures 47 mm. The flagellum is a very little longer than the sensory sete, and there is a very minute lateral flagellum. A peculiarity of this species is the scattered thorny armature of the spine of the shell. There is but little change in the form of head with age. The form of the last feet is peculiar. The ephippium occupies comparatively a small part of the valves and the spine becomes very short and quite smooth. ‘The sexual period occurs in September and October. hie The above statements regarding D. galeata require a modifica- tion, for in another deep lake the writer has since secured the typical crested D. galeata with even a higher crest than that figured by P. E. Mueller. The head ends in a sharp angle. The single female seen was in company with the rounded variety and numbers of D. kalbergensis, which it resembles in many respects. Our fauna therefore is quite complete in these remarkable forms. (See Plate U. Fig. 6.) Sp. 11. Daphnia dubia, Herrick. ( Plate L. Figs. 7, 8.) American Naturalist, 1883. The life history of this form is insufficiently known, but there seems no reason for doubting that it constitutes a new and easily recognizable species. It is nearly related to D. hyalina, but the head is strongly crested all round and the eye is withdrawn, in young as well as old specimens, toward the middle of the head. This peculiarity is shared in this degree by no other Daphnia 62 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. The form is as in D. pellucida, but the spine is more slender and directed upward. ‘The head is shaped much as in D. vitrea in the young, but is much less prominent. The older form has a shorter and more slender spine (none were seen in the ultimate or spineless stage). The head is more evenly rounded, but still well crested. The abdomen is very slender and the anal teeth diminish rapidly in size from below upward. ‘he claws are very short and armed down the whole length with fine bristles. The abdominal processes are well united at the base in old specimens, so that the second seems a small process of the first. The shell is very trans- parent and the spine is longer than in any other Daphnid. In a young specimen the spine was 1. mm., the body 0.7 mm., and the head 0.4 mm. In this specimen the spine was slightly curved, the head elongate with a slight ridge in front. Another individual had the spine 1.1 mm. long, while the remainder of the animal was 1.3mm. This specimen also had a knife-like hyaline ridge on the crest, which was obliquely truncate in front; it also had numerous summer embryos in the brood sac. The spine was perfectly straight and but slightly inclined upward. Older individuals have a rounded crest as figured and no ridge. The spine is relatively somewhat shorter but much more slender. The characters which most clearly distinguish this species are the well crested head, which in young as well as sometimes older specimens has a median hyaline ridge, the withdrawal of the eye from the margin and the very long spine. It resembles D. galeata in earlier stages. It is very much like D. levis or,in other words, is in the group of D. hyalina; out the study of a considerable number of specimens from different localities con- vinces me that it can not be united with that species in any of its varieties. This species has only been found in autumn, Sept.— Nov., lake St. Croix and Richfield in Hennepin county. Section II. Pigment fleck wanting. Head crested. The small, hyaline spe- cies constituting this section, elevated by Schcedler to the rank of a genus ( Hyalodaphnia ) and by Sars to that of a subgenus (Cepha- loxus), are chiefly residents of the deeper parts of our larger lakes. These forms, from their rarity, have been little studied and it is uncertain how far the assumed specific distinctions are valid. Two species are known in America and they are not confined to large lakes. ga STATE GEOLOGIST. 63 Sp. 1. Daphnia longiremis, Sars. Hyaline, compressed, seen from the side, rounded, lower margin strongly arched; spine long, straight, oblique. Head rounded, lower margin nearly straight, ending ina beak directed downward, acute anteriorly. Eye small. Antenne very long. Length 1 mm. The abdomen is said to be similar to that of D. longispina. From the brief description given by Sars it would appear that this spe- cies is characterized by a rounded and uncrested or slightly crested head. Though imperfectly described, it is here mentioned to direct attention toward any such species as may be found in America. Sp. 2. Daphnia cristata, Sars, Compressed, long. Head acute in front, strongly crested, lower margin nearly straight. Dorsal line of body little curved, spine long in the young, strongly curved. Head of male smaller, flagel- lum of antennule twice as long as the set; first foot well clawed. Length of female 1.33 mm. Sp. 3. Daphnia cucullata, Sars. D. berolinensis, SCHOEDLER. Very like the above, but the margin of head is not straight be- low, is, however, extremely variable and ends in asharpangle. The eye lies nearly midway between the heart and the end of the head and near the lower margin. The two anterior processes of the abdomen are united for most of their length. The flagellum of the male antenna is about as long as the terminal sete. D. apicata, Kurz, seems to be a large variety lacking the sharp spine of the head. Jn the main it agrees quite well. Although the post-abdomen is broader than figured by Mueller, the number of teeth corresponds with Sars’ description. Sp. 4. Daphnia Kalbergensis, Schoedler. (Plate U. Figs. 1—3). Form oval, spine long. Head high, compressed, enormously elongated, beak obtuse. Eye smail. Abdominal processes not united. Caudal claws ornamented with small sete. Antenne of male with ashort flagellum. Length of head nearly eau to that of body exclusive of spine. D. vitrea of Kurz seems not improbably a neal form of the above though the crest is lower, the size is less and the post-abdo- 64 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. men is more slender and has fewer teeth; the differences are, how- ever, hardly specific. I am not convinced that either D. cederstromii, Schoedler, or D. retrocurva, Forbes, are really distinct species, although the latter, with its more strongly crested head, is said also to have a series of teeth on the terminal claw. Perhaps it forms with D. cederstro- mii the fifth and extreme phase of this group. Since writing the above account of Daphnia kalbergensis this truly monstrous species has come to light in the vicinity of Min- neapolis. The opportunity is thus afforded to verify the suspicion expressed above that a number of species must be united under this name. P. E. Mueller gives the following measurements for D. kal- bergensis: head 0.9—1.0mm.,body 1.0—1.1mm., spine 0.7—0.75 mm. Kurz for his D. vitrea gives a length of 0.85 mm. plus 0.25 mm., the length of the spine. Judging from his figure, the head would not measure over 0.35 mm. Forbes says of his D. retrocurva that the head is two thirds as long as the body. | Our specimens measured as follows: No. 1. 1.6mm, head somewhat more than half the body and al- most exactly like D. vitrea in form. No. 2. Head 0.6 mm., body 0.9 mm., spine 0.5 mm.; about 9 anal spines. Head in this case moderately curved upward. No. 3. Head 0.95 mm., body 0.95 or less, spine 0.5 mm.; or the head as long as or, indeed, considerably longer than the body and directed upward. The males have the crest much lower, the spine longer, and the form of antennules figured by P. EH. Mueller. In the older females the beak is elevated above the antennules, as remarked by Forbes, but in smaller individuals there is very little difference between our specimens and Mueller’s figures. The claws of the post-abdomen have, besides the row of fine teeth mentioned by Mueller, a cluster of sharp teeth just at the basa. Found, together with typical D. galeata and the rounded form, in a small deep lake or expansion of a creek not far from Medicine lake, Hennepin county, Minn. Sp.5. Daphnia magniceps, (Sp. n.) (Plate U. Fig. 15). The peculiar form figured in the Tenth annual of this survey seems indubitably new and is distinguished by the peculiar shovel- shaped head, which is scarcely crested but is broadest beyond the ———, os . S STATE GEOLOGIST. 65 middle. The spine is long, the claws smooth, the abdominal pro- cesses united and the shell transparent. The eye is near the end of the rounded head and is large; the pigment fleck was apparently | absent. Found with Daphnia minnehaha in a shallow swampy pool in autumn. Faminty BosmMINniIp&. The sole genus of the family, Bosmina, contains over’a dozen nominal species which are among the most difficult to define of any cladocerans. The number is here reduced to nine and the probable position of the rejected species is indicated. This is not done because the author presumes upon the slender material at hand to revise the genus; but simply from the fact that the descrip- tions of the earlier writers do not permit a proper discrimination; so that this necessity is entailed upon any one who would give a birds-eye view of the members of the genus. The B. diaphana is founded upon a different twist in the antennules and no hesitancy is felt in uniting it with Sars’ B. lilljeborgii. The other species, B. brevirostris and B. nitida, are omitted simply because there seems to be no way of separating them satisfactorily from B. mari- tima, and B. obtusirostris respectively. Three species have been found in Minnesota, but practically no attention has been given to the genus here. Bosmina macrorhyucha found in Egypt is not here included, its description being inaccessible to me. B. levis, Leydig, seems simply a smooth condition of other spe- cies. Whether B. curvirostris, Leydig, is or is not valid must, so far as I am concerned, remain at. present doubtful. GENus BosmiIna. A. Shell extending into a spine behind. (a) Antenne curved outward. 1. Bosmina cornuta, Jurine. (b) Antenne not curved outward, I. Shell reticulated, at least in part. + Flagellum midway between eye and the sensory sete of antenne, 2. Bosmina longirostris, Mueller. +t Flagellum nearer eye. 3. Bosmina maritima, P. E. Mueller. 4. Bosmina longispina, Leydig. (B, brevirostris ?) il. Sheil striate. + Antennules long. 66 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 5. Bosmina striata, Herrick. ++ Antennules short. ~ * Rostrum long. 6, Bosmina lacustris, Sars, ** Rostrum short. 7. Bosmina obtusirostris, Sars. (B. nitida, Sars?) B. Shell not spined behind. (a) Shell strongly arched above. 8. Bosmina lilljeborgii, Sars, (B. diaphana ?) (b) Shelf moderately curved above. 9. Bosmina microps, P. E. Mueller, Concerning the identification of Bosmina longispina, Leydig, with B. brevirostris, P. EK. Mueller, it must be said that the bow is drawn at a venture, for Mueller, in his paper on the Cladocera of Swiss Lakes, in a fit of absent-mindedness refers to B. lacustris, P. E. Mueller, citing p. 149 of Danmark’s Cladocera. On the page in question are descriptions of B. maritima and B. brevirostris of which the latter is probably the one meant. Sars’ B. lacustris seems quite different, being strongly marked by longitudinal lines, while Leydig says of B. lonyispina “shell striped and small reticulate,” and P. E. Mueller says in B. brevirostris the shell is “utydeligt reticuleret” i.e. indistinctly reticulate. The three species so far identified in America are B. ioneieouial of which a figure is given (plate J, fig. 2,) B. cornuta and B. striata, which may possibly be yet identified with one of the European spe- cies, though it seems improbabie. I have also seen a species like Leydig’s B. levis, but considered it a smooth variety of B. longi- rostris. FAMILY LYNCODAPHNIDA, Sars, 1861; Herrick, 1881. This is a rather small family with seven genera of minute ani- mals which are abundant only in summer. Many and, indeed, most of the species are among the rarer of fresh-water crustaceans _ of this group, and a few are among the rarities which only now and then reward the collector. This family undoubtedly is the link connecting the Daphnidz with the Lynceide, relationships to which __ are expressed by Macrothrix, on the one hand, and Lyncodaphnia, on the other. The rank of this group as a family must be, of course, a matter largely of opinion. Sars was the first to adopt this view, sustained — by certain curious transition forms leading toward Lynceide. Later or. writers seem never to have found these genera and the group was — STATE GEOLOGIST. 67 s again included with the Daphnide. The writer, upon the dis- covery of the Lyncodaphnia, was forced to regard this group as of equivalent grade with the above mentioned families and again pro- posed the family name Lyncodaphnide. ! The genus Ilyocryptus is a little one side the normal course of the family and seems related to the lynceid genus Leydigia. The waters of the northern United States are very rich in members of this family. The aberrant family Bosminide finds its only connection with other Cladocera through this group by means of the remarkable Macrothrix (?) pauper; and here it is only vaguely hinted at in the elongated antennules and angled lower margin of shell, as well as the presence of certain bodies near the base of the antennules. It has been affirmed that none of the Lyncodaphnide have an ephip- pium, i. e. the saddie-shaped thickening of the shell walls to in- elude and protect the winter eggs; but I liave discovered it in the ease of Macrothrix tenuicornis, Kurz, and presume it may occur exceptionally in others. Kurz says that Ilyocryptus has no moult proper, but this probably refers only to the European I. sordidus. The American species differs from the generic description given by Kurz, and may be different in this respect also. In this family the regularity in the dispusition of the setz on the antenne is broken and the fringing of these hairs serves the purpose of specific distinction. The antennules are always long _ and frequently differ considerably in the sexes. The pigment fleck is always present (Kurz is in error in denying its existence in La- _thonura). In many forms there is no free posterior margin of the valves, while the lower is generally thickly beset with movable , spines. ‘lhe Lyncodaphnide will be distinguished from Cerio- daphnia, which they resemble, by their motion, which is asuccession of quick bounds, while the broader Ceriodaphniz hobble along as though heavily weighted by the enormous mass of eggs with which they are generally laden. The abdomen is usually short and the anus is behind the terminal claws, but in Ilyocryptus the claws are long and spined at the base. Inthe American I. spinifer the anal Opening is elevated to a point nearly underneath the stylets, and there is a rudimentary anal cecum as in Lynceids. _ The males have the opening of the vasa deterentia in front of the claws, which may be absent; the antennules are also modified, oeing longer and curved. In Lathonura the abdomen is elongated 1 Notes on Some Minnesota Cladocera, 1881. 68 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. posteriorly till it begins to suggest a transition to Polyphemus. The known genera and their distribution is as indicated below. Half of the known species are found in America; one sixth being peculiar to it. Total number | Europ- Also | Onlyin} Total GENERA. of ean. Amer- {America} Amer- | specles. ican. ican. Oe ME ACTOUUMIN . fee icles azine seieeeeiet a 3 2 1 3 Big MTAUIONMUNAs appre be heise wae ne Ceeenioes 1 1 1 wee 1 Sa) DTEpanotayixs di... 5h oste te Be aces 1 UM PENBAS SAAR ce Hh ore A MUNG ULORELCUS sarc «one ceiewe enced 1 Lis) > octets ppl otelslekestere tl an DaPACADLNOLGHELIS#. «chin «ck pee nertecetien 1 Deel jeioe ston he saci eee GH JOTVOSUS He ot esse cals sates securiiced 1 1 1 1 Gee YNCOGABUDIGN? 6a sie sac va nprertene 7 as ISAs ied Se oe asers Ba 1 1 See VOCKVIDUUS Saeed afore oe ei the ale 3 i a SAE 1 1 HOPI Gin tert y Lente, 13 ai ok wae 3 7 1. GrNus Macroturix, Baird. Body oval, pointed behind; head broad; antenne of first pair long, nearly straight, beset with spines, olfactory threads terminal ; swimming antenne large and powerful, propelling the animal by bounds; three-jointed ramus with a greatly elongated seta which is thorned and jointed; labrum with the basal joint enlarged, resembling that of Lynceids; first foot with a hook in both sexes; last foot with a long process (respiratory body); abdomen short; claws short; caudal stylets often with a bush of hairs at tip. The intestine is straight and without ceca in front or behind. The first one to observe a member of this genus, apparently, was O. F. Mueller whose Daphnia curvirostris is usually referred to Macrothrix laticornis. The name Hchinisca was proposed by Lievin, but Macrothrix was applied by Baird in 1843. Four species are known, three of which occur in America and without doubt the fourth will ultimately be found. No males of this genus were known till 1877 when the male of M. laticornis was described and figured.1 Nearly two years later the male of M. rosea was described from Wisconsin by HE. A. Birge. Descriptions of the male of Lathonura are also given in both the above mentioned sources. Sp. 1. Macrothrix laticornis, Jurine. (Plate C. Figs. 7, 8 and 9.) Daphnia curvirostris(?), MUELLER. Monoculus laticornis, JURINE. Lynceus laticornis, DESMAREST. 1 Gruber und Weismann, Ueber einige neue oder unvollkommen gek annte Daph niden. Freiburg. } : “ ee ee, ee a apne “STATE GEOLOGIST. 69 Macrothri« laticornis, BAIRD, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Acanthocercus curvirosiris (?), SCHOEDLER, prichs: Archiv, 1846. Daphnia curvirostris, FISCHER. EU laticornis, LILLJEBORG, LEYDIG, BAIRD, P, E. MUELLER, FRIC, KURZ, SARS, LUTZ, CLAUS (Die Schalendruse d. Daphnien), NORMAN i and BRADY (Monogr. Brit. Entom.), GRUBER and WEISMANN, WEISMANN, (Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte d. Daph.) This is the commonest European species and is the type of the genus, showing its rather conservative position by the broad tip of the antenna which is a feature exhibited by embryos and young of other species. The shell has a warty surface and is toothed above, while the lower margins are fringed with long unequal spines in groups of threes or fours. The form is roundish with a blunt posterior angle, the ventral margin being regularly curved. The antennules are short and en- larged at the end. The form is an irregular pentagon; a pair of slender spines sits at the angle near the base. The swimming antennz with the seta on the first joint of 3- jointed ramus very long. Post-abdomen truncate at the end, short, posterior margin beset with series of bristles. Length of male 0.5—0.6 mm., of female 0.4 mm. This is the smallest of the genus and will undoubtedly be found in America. Sp. 2. Macrothrix rosea, Jurine. (Plate C. Figs. 5,6, 11, and 18.) Monoculus roseus, JURINE. Lynceus roseus, DESMAREST. Daphnia rosea, M. EDWARDS, JURRELL, Echinisca rosea, LIEVIN. Macrothriz rosea, BAIRD, LILLJEBORG, P. E. MUELLER, BIRGE. The body is sub-oval, terminating behind in an acute angle; the lower margin is less conspicuously spined than the last or the following; the antennz are but slightly dilated at the end and nearly straight. The longest seta of the antenne is longer than in the last, reaching beyond the tips of the terminal setze; abdo- ‘men more slender, sinuate in front, beset with short hairs. Length 0.6 mm, male0.8mm. The male has no claws on the end of the post-abdomen, and the antennules are curved and elongated. Figures 5 and 13 are copied from Birge. TO TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Sp. 3. Macrothrix tenuicornis, Kurz. (Plate C. Figs. 1, 1a, 2, 8, and 12.) (See Notes on Cladocera of Minnesota, p. 245.) The body is oval, produced posteriorly inja sharp point; the ab- domen is strongly arched, while the upper outlinefof the head is a regular curve or slightly extended in front fof the eye; the anten- nules are long, nearly straight and a very little narrowed toward the end, just in front of which is a series of short teeth; there is no lateral spine, but a strong terminal one in addition to the sensory filaments; the pigment spot is large, the eye small and the lobus opticus well separated from the ganglion; the antenne have a very powerful basal joint; the elongated seta is very:,stout and densely spiny, with a tooth at its flexure; two of the terminal sete are spiny, for the basal half; the valves are beset with veryflong spines in sets of three each, all having different positions; the abdomen is nearly as in M. rosea, but the posterior margin has a series of long sharp teeth; the mandibles are nearly completely exposed by the arched anterior margin of the valves. The labrum, in this species, is an odd link between that of the Daphnide and Lynceide. The basal segment is greatly enlarged and is sub-triangular in outline, with a movable lip attached to the inner free face; the typical daphnoid structure is preserved, but the enlarged salient angle of the basal portion shows how the transi-— tion to the great triangular labrum of Alona, ete., is made. In young specimens the head is proportionately larger, the antennules are broader at the tip, and the dorsal outline is fless convex; the marginal spines of the valves are also proportionally larger, as are- the appendages of the first and last pairs of feet. This is one of the largest species of the genus, 0.75 mm. being the length. This is very close to M. rosea but seems distinct. This form is quite common about Minneapolis, Minn., but is not yet noted elsewhere in America. Sp.4. Macrothrix pauper, Herrick. (Plate C. Fig. 4.) This species is described from a single specimen{from L. Minne- | tonka, and I can add nothing to the very;meager_notice given ~ then. ! 1 Notes on some Minnesota Cladocera. 1881. C. L. Herrick. STATE GEOLOGIST. 71 The body is broad and very narrow, the lower outline is angled and nearly unarmed; the pigment fleck and eye are small and ap- proximated; antennules very long and curved backward and out- ward; abdomen short, ciliate below; claws short, ciliated. This female had a full complement of eggs but the antenne resemble those of a male. This is unusually interesting and should be redis- covered and studied; for there seems to be some affinity between this species and Bosmina, and it is probable that it requires to be distinguished generically from Macrothrix. u. GeNus LatHonura, Lilljeborg. The form is oval; the head is curved more than in Macrothrix and the shell is more obtuse behind, sinuate below where it is beset with short spines anteriorly; first antenne long, straight; second antennze with five setze on each ramus; only four pairs of feet ap- parent; abdomen short, prolonged upward to the insertion of the caudal stylets; male similar but smaller. Spi. Lathonura rectirostris, O. F. Mueller. (Plate D.) Laphnia rectirostris, 0. F. MUELLER. Pasithea rectirostris, KOCH, Deutsehland’s Krust., ete. Daphnia brachyura, ZADDACH, Syn. Crust. prussicorum. LIEVIN, Die Branch. a. Danziger Gegend. _ Daphnia mystacina, FISCHER, St. Petersb. Branchivp, Lathonura rectirostris, LILLJEBORG, De Crust. ex ord. trib. Pasithea rectrirostris, LEYDIG, Naturg. d. Daph. Lathonura rectirostris, NORMAN and BRADY, Monogr. Brit. Ent.; P. E. MUELLER, Danmark’s Cladocera, Lathonura spinosa, SCHOEDLER, Branchiop. da. Umg. v. Berlin. Pasithea rectirostris, GRUBER and WBHISMANN, Ueber einige neue od. unvollk. ge- ; kannte Daph. Lathonura rectirostris, BIRGE, Notes on Cladocera. H@RRICK, Notes on Minnesota Cladocera. “s The only species of the genus is distributed probably over the entire northern temperate zone. It has been found in America at Cambridge, Mass., and in the vicinity of Minneapolis, at both of -. which places it is very rare. : ¥ ‘The form is a rather quadrangular ova!, the head being strongly arched to the beak which is much farther posterior than in Macro- thrix, in this respect resembling the Daphnidae; the eye occupies the center of the lower part of the head margin, and is of moderate size; the pigment fleck is near the base of the antennules and well removed from the eye; the antenne are straight and long, with a 72 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. sensory bristle near the base in front and two bristles a third from the end; the second antennez are furnished with a powerful basal joint, while each of the main subdivisions of the rami has its bristle, ' which are nearly equal; two of the terminal sete are toothed for the basal half and pectinate distally, but the others are feathered throughout; the four-jointed ramus has a spine on the second joint and a longer one at the end, and all the joints of both rami are orna- mented with triple series of spines; the maxille are three-spined at the end and are in almost constant motion; the first pairs of feet have curious comb-like bunches on some of the setze; the abdomen is very short and terminates in inconspicuous teeth, the posterior part of the abdomen being ornamented with teeth flattened longi- tudinally so as to look like spines from the side; the last foot is simple but bears a large appendage; the posterior third of the shell is fringed by extremely minute spines, but anteriorly by lanceolate stiff spines flattened longitudinally like the spines of the abdomen; the caudal setae are seated on a high prominence of the abdomen, and are fringed along their whole lexgth, not merely at the end. The female is 1 mm. long, the male 0.5—0.6 mm.,in which sex the antennules have more numerous lateral bristles, the first foot has a claw and the back is less elevated. The semen bodies are irre- gularly round with small nuclei. Im. GENUS STREBLOCERCUS, Sars. In form like Macrothrix laticornis, head terminating in a long rostrum bearing the long, twisted antennules. Antennules very large, curved backward and outward. Head not separated by a destinct depression from the body, very high, slightly arched above, abrubtly curved below with spines upon the margins. The anten- ne are large; four-jointed ramus much the longer, with four setz. Labrum with a large process. Post-abdomen as in Macrothrix lati- cornis. Hye near the beak ; pigment fleck small, below it at the base of the antennules. enste .23 mm. §. minutus is the only species. Our Macrothrix pauper seems a near approach to this genus; both have a strong spine or claw on the first foot which projects beyond the shell, but there are many differences. M. pauper is 1 mm. long. STATE GEOLOGIST. 3) ies tv. Gsnus DREPANOTHRIX, Sars. The head not separated from the valves by a depression; fornices - moderate; rostrum rather acute, distant from the anterior edge of the valves. The form is subrotund; reticulate, with the margins of shell fringed below by long movable spines; pigment fleck present; ‘swimming antenne with three ciliated sete on the 4-jointed ra- mus, the 3-jointed ramus with its basal joint armed with an un- jointed, strong, spinous seta and four ciliated setee on the remain- ing joints. The post-abdomen is broad. The male has longer an- tenn and a hook on the first foot. Sp. 1. Drepanothrix dentata, Euren. (Plate C. Fig. 14.) Acantholeberis dentata, EUREN. Drepatothria setigera, SARS, Drepanothrix hamata, SARS. This animal is only 0.5 mm. in length. The antennules are laterally curved in the middle and ornamented with notches on the margins; the pigment fleck is quadrate and rather large; the post- abdomen is truncate at the end, convex behind and ornamented with a series of small spines. Only found in Scandinavia as yet. vy. Genus ACANTHOLEBERIS, Lilljeborg. Head separated by a depression from the body, with fornices above the base of the swimming antenne; rostrum erect, rather acute; shell oblong, truncate behind, ciliate below with long sete; macula present; antennules rather long, movable, sensory setz terminal, bifid at the apex. The tri-articulate ramus has a long spiny seta on the basal joint; feet six pairs; no abdominal process; post-abdomen wide, large; in- testine without cca. Sp. 1. Acantholeberis curvirostris, Mueller. Daphnia curvirostris, 0. F. MUELLER. Acanthocercus rigidus, SCHOEDLER, LIEVIN. Acantholeberis curvirostris, LILLJEBORG, P. E. MUELLER. This species of a genus approximating the Lynceids has not yet been found in America but is to be expected. The abdomen is rounded toward the end and spiny posteriorly; the terminal claws are furnished with two strong teeth at the base, 74 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. followed by a series of fringing bristles. The length, according to Mueller, is 1.5 mm. This isa rare form in Europe. vi. GENusS OFryoxus, Sars. The single species constituting this genus seems to have been seen by no writer save Sars, At the time my previous paper on Cladocera was published, Sars’ description seemed not to apply to the form called Lyncodaphnia. Since then several stages in the growth of Lyncodaphnia have been encountered, which so far agree with what is said of Ofryoxus gracilis that it is doubted if the two forms are not identical. vo. Genus Lyncopapunta, Herrick. (Plate B. Figs. 12, 15; Plate Bi, Figs. 1, 3.) Body elongated, somewhat rectangular as seen from the side, greatest width and hight of shell a Jittle posterior to the heart; head separated by a depression from the body, truncate below; antenne and antennules much as in Macrothrix; 4-jointed ramus of antenne with no lateral sete; eye small, pigment fleck present; intestine twice convoluted, expanded posteriorly, with anterior but no posterior ceca, opening near the * heel” of the post-abdomen: post-abdomen large, triangular; terminal claws long, rather straight, with two accessory spines at the base. The species upon which this genus was foindeds 1 occurs in August and September in the larger lakes of Minnesota. Lyncodaphnia is, as was suggested, a curious transition form linking the Daphnide with the Lynceide. , A farther study of the genus shows that, in some respects, it is more closely allied to both groups than before suspected. The habit and appearance in the water reminds us of Simocephalus, a re- semblance which an occasional spot of pink or blue color hightens. ~ L. macrothroides not only has the disc-like last foot colored but the swimming antenne are banded with purple as in Simocepha- lus rostratus, Her., and 8. americanus, Birge. The intestine has anterior czeca, which is not the case in lynceids nor, indeed, in other Lyncodaphnide. The four-jointed ramus of the antennze approaches Lynceide in the absence of a lateral seta, but the other ramus is as in Macro- thrix. The convolution of the intestine, the form of the post- abdomen and the situation of the anus, are all of a strictly lynceid 1 Notes on Minnesota Cladocera, p. 247. 2. Sakae aa STATE GEOLOGIST. 15 type; moreover the flattened appendage of the last foot is like that of Hurycercus. _ . Hien in the form of the shell there is a combination of charac- _ ters; the anterior part of the shell has the form peculiar to Lynco- daphnide; but posteriorly it again expands and becomes truncate be- hind; the form in the adult is not unlike that of some Lynceide, but the young has a long spine posteriorly exactly like the spine of Daphnia. The latter fact is very instructive, for it indicates that — the theory proposed (Am. Naturalist, 1882, p. 815) to explain the - origin of this appendage is probably the correct one. Professor Leuckart suggested that this spine was a balancing rod intended to keep the proper equipoise over the center of gravity; but it is difficult to see why these long-bodied forms, in which the greater part of the weight lies “‘abaft” of the pivota] point—the base of the antenne—should be thus provided while the shorter forms are not. We conceive that it is an apparatus for effecting the moult of the inner lining of the brood cavity of long-bodied and tender-shelled -animals such as Daphniaand the present genus. The great develop- ment of the head in the crested Daphnide may undoubtedly be ex- plained upon Prof. Leuckart’s theory. Sp. 1. Lyncodaphnia macrothroides, Herrick. (Perhaps = Ofryoxus gracilis, Sars. ) Notes on Cladocera of Minn., p. 247. Sub-rectangular, greatly elongated, truncate behind, with a _ slight spine above; head and eye small, fornix moderate, beak . _ truncate; antennules rather long, slightly curved, tapering a little toward the end, whence spriug three lanceolate spines and several sensory filaments, five stout spines behind, above the middle, and several more slender ones; swimming antenne very long, terminal sete: smooth to the joint; labrum as in Daphnia; mandible attached _ behind a salient angle of the front margin of the shell; no ab- _ dominal processes; post-abdomen broad above, triangular; terminal _ ¢elaws pectinate, furnished with one very large toothed accessory spine and a smaller one; the first foot has a hook; the last foot consists of a large oval plate which bears posteriorly the ordinary branchial coil, here shaped like a thumb and forefinger. The young is of a different shape and bears along spine. The male is unknown. 76 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. vin. GENus ILyockYPTUS. Form compact, short; head short, triangular, with large fornices forming a roof over the head; the posterior margin of shell nearly as long as the inferior; lower angle a broad curve; antennules two- jointed, basal joint very short, second joint straight, rather long; setze terminal, but one seta near the base; the four-jointed ramus of the antenna with but three (terminal) sete; six pairs of feet, last pair rudimentary; tail large, as in Lyncodaphnia, anus elevated; intestine straight, without czeca, but an expansion near the rectum sometimes simulates one; the margin of the shell is bordered with long spines, which may be branched or simply pectinate. There is often, perhaps generally, a failure to entirely remove the moulted shell; when this occurs, the newly-formed shell from each moult remains under the older ones till the animal seems to be wearing six or more overcoats, and the spaces so formed become filled with alge and filth till the animal is no longer able toswim. P. EH. Mueller and Kurz, who seem to have seen cnly I. sordidus agree | | that Ilyoeryptus can not swim, but poles along in the mud on the bottom by means of antennz and abdomen; our I. spinifer, on the other hand, swims freely till loaded up with old clothes and filth. This genus is also closely allied with the Lynceide. Sp. 1. Ilyocryptus sordidus, Lievin. (Plate C. Figs, 15, 16, 17.) Acanthocercus sordidus, LIEVIN, LEYDIG. llyocryptus sordidus, SARS, NORMANN, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ. Body higher than long; head small, terminating anteriorly in almost a right angle; posterior part of the shell margins covered with branching, thorny spines; antennules cylindrical; antennae short: four-jointed rami with no lateral setae; post-abdomen large, broad; terminal claws with two spines at the base; anus in the middle of the posterior margin, which is very heavily armed with spines; a hairy abdominal process is present according to Kurz. There are no anterior ceca (my statement that P. EH. Mueller described such czeca was an error;see Notes on Cladocera of Minn., p. 246). at STATE GEOLOGIST. LG ; Sp. 2. Ilyocryptus spinifer, Herrick. : (Plate C. Figs. 18—19.) Usually longer than high; head rounded, almost exactly like I. sordidus, but the form of the post-abdomen differs a little in the higher situation of the anus and the great elongation of four or _ five of the lower spines of the posterior margins; the margins of the shell are beset with pectinate setze which do not branch. The nearest approach to branching setz yet seen are figured on plate C, fig. 18a; this consists in the outgrowth of a spine from near the base, and such setze are found only on part of the posterior margin. It seems that our form is rather close to I. sordidus though clearly distinct. This species occurs in many of our lakes, and is found most fre- quent in late summer. Sp, 3. Ilyocryptus acutifrons, Sars. This species is only mentioned in the appendix to the paper of Sars on the Cladocera from the vicinity of Christiania. The follow- ing is a condensation of the description. Head large, acute in front. Shell truncate behind, with shorter setze behind than below. Antennules shorter and thicker than in I. sordidus. Antenne long and robust. Abdomen with a short, obtuse process. Post-abdomen shorter than in I. sordidus, posterior margin continuous, anus terminal; caudal claws straight, very long, with two minute basal spines. Figment fleck almost touching the eye. Length less than in I. sordidus. This species seems in some respects more like a true lyncodaph- nid than either of the other species. It is doubtful if it belongs here. FAMILY LYNCEID Ai. Number - safe (0) a n ota GENERA. known | Europ- gaboun America| Amer- species,| ©. rae aro nilivs ican. MIE RBNMITV COL CUS : :2).,..iic eee cieieees ea Meeae 1 1 Nira Svesntnitatessteliai= 1 Ae ACTODECLUS® cso ccc esas ve nsiediecec vee: 2 2 AD Dee? aes ctaie 1 3. Camptocercus ...........-....-608- 6 5 1 1 2 AMEAIONODSIS): . ceicicscs soca ce se t's 3 2 1 1 2 Lam LY oe ses Sie Sis clave-n cro ecase oeceialgjae 2 2 Di iin Its ware ath 2 6. Graptoleberis.............-......: 2 2 PY LEPS | olkttareroreists 1 Mam OLEPICOCENCUS) <. os .ja'e cs ces oes fale iL} ERAS Ooee eR OGaCot 1 1 EMEA OM Dirercie nti cslcic.esicisicie/eles cic egeisie He 21 14 6 7 13 SHEP ANON ANS shes soi elke ek ciluoke » 5 5 Ute (alee Seine 2 LOM MEME MLORUS cic peer cece siiececvcee cots “14 8 1 6 7 11. Harporhynchus.................... 1 Ph tre | Ae ane Le brent eal ala ees ee ONY CONUS 21 .)5 os siciste.esie/ cs. sctewcls cise cia 8(?) 6(?) Ble iipdbada dood 3 A 13. Anehistropus.................+e0-+- 1 i lhcanl?"| RRR Nend a a oeintineie 1 (?) 14. Monospilus............-........008- 1 1 ceaRiaa onenee ype 1 PALE DEVI Sie rere cterat at isitiiwisiaie cove pistaveieiste/envsievere 68 50 20 16 37 78 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Out of the fourteen genera, two (or perhaps only one) are not yet known from America, while one is restricted to it. The Amer- ican species, 45 per cent of which are new, aggregate 72 per cent of the European. 54 per cent of all the known species are Amer- ican, and most of these have been found within a range of ten miles of Minneapolis. It is probable that the number of species peculiar to America is too high proportionately rather than the reverse, and the comparatively high per cent of new species is due to an actual larger fauna in the New World, while many Old World species remain to be identified. A few of the European species are very likely synonyms, permitting farther reduction. This family, which is numerically the largest among the Clado- cera, is, in the main, well limited, though there are transitions to- ward the Lyncodaphnide, which are quite direct. The genera Lyncodaphnia, Ofryoxus and [lyocryptus lead toward the Lynceide. unmistakably. Most of the members of this family are smal], com- paratively few exceeding one millimeter in length. The head is. covered with an arched shield, which frequently passes with no in- dentation into the shell of the body. This head-covering generally extends forward and downward to form more or less of a sharp angle in front, while in several generait is simply rounded in front. It, in either case, arches over the more fleshy lower side of the head from which hang the two short antennules and the labrum, while | the strong two-branched antenne spring from well up under its — posterior expansion. The rounded sides of this shield, which pro- tect the insertion of the antennz, are called the fornices. Above the insertion of antennules is a dark fleck lying near or on the lower angle of the brain; this is the larval or nauplius eye, which is the first to appear in all these small crustacea. This macula nigra is not infrequently as large as the eye itself, * or even larger, and in one genus it is the only visual organ. The antennules are small and bear on the end several sensory filaments as well as a lateral flagellum. The antennules of the male differ very little from those of the female. The labrum is furnished with a process, which is triangular or semicircular and is usually larger than the terminal portion. The mandibles are as in Daphnide but usually shorter. Maxille are often conspicuous, but the first pair of feet serve, by a slight alteration at the base, the same purpose. There is rarely an indication of the sixth pair of feet, and the antenne have both rami three-jointed. The terminal part of the body, or * The name “Lynceus” is derived from that of the son of Aphareus who was famous for the sharpness of his vision. STATE GEOLOGIST. 79 _ post-abdomen, is usually enlarged, and the anal opening is near its base; the armature is usually considerable. The form of the post- abdomen is one of the best criteria for distinguishing genera and Species—a process often attended with much difficully. The shell is of various forms, frequently beautifully sculptured. The number of eggs produced at one time is limited, and the winter eggs are very often laid in the brood-cavity with no preparation of the shell previous to it, in other words, the ephippium may be ab- sent. On the other hand, sometimes the shell is considerably modi- fied, and generally there is a deposit of dark pigment in the upper part of the shell. The males are very rare and until recently few were known. The diligence of Kurz has added a great many, and we now have a fair idea of the sexual variations. These consist usually in a narrower body and shorter beak, in a strong hook of chitin on the first foot and certain modifications of the post-abdo- -men. The hook mentioned is simply an enlargement of one of the terminal bristles of the foot, and serves to fasten the animal to the shell of the female. In one American species of Pleuroxus we find an approach to this structure in the female—an interesting example of inheritance of sexual peculiarities across the sexes. The altera- tions in the form of the post-abdomen consist in a narrowing or excavation of that organ to permit its introduction into the brood- cavity, and in some forms (Chydorus) this change can only be understood by observing the form of the shell of the female about to produce winter eggs. In general, as in other Cladocera, males are found only at the period when the females are sexually perfect. The ordinary method of reproduction is by virgin-bearing or par. _ thenogenesis. In some cases it would seem from Weismann’s ob- servations that the sexual method occurs only incidentally. The orifice of the male organs is between, or anterior to, the terminal claws of the post-abdomen (Kurycercus alone excepted). The males are usually but not always smaller. Plate El gives views of typical Lynceide. Fig. 1 is particularly instructive, for in it the details which can be usually made out in the living object are represented. The following points may be especially noticed. The large size of ‘the pigment fleck, the large antennules (A’), the keel of the labrum _ {Lb.), the peculiar modification of the first pair of feet to assist the __ maxillze (not shown) which are exceedingly small, the largely de- veloped anal gland (A. g.), the form and muscular mechanism of the abdomen, which, however, is better illustrated by fig. 10 of the _ same plate. Fig. 1 contains an embryo seen from the side with the Ay partially developed limb. Fig. 3 shows the appearance of a differ- 80 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ent embryo from below and in an earlier stage. Fig. 2 illustrates the relation of the brain to the eye and the very small optic gang- lion. Fig. 9 of plate G gives details of the feet in another species, — and the modifications seen in the male of the same species are sufii- ciently shown in fig. 1 of the same plate, which also well illustrates the various sculpture of the shell displayed by this group. Figures 4 and 9 of plate F show curious modifications of the post-abdomen of the male, and fig. 7 exhibits the structural peculiarity of sexually perfect females which is correlated with it or, perhaps we may say, occasions it. SUB-FAMILY 1—EURYCERCIN &. A single species constitutes the sub-family, and it will be necess- ary to point out only those points which are distinctive. The Eurycercine differ from the true Lynceidz and approach the Lyncodaphnide in having the digestive tract not coiled, with two ceca in front and the anus at the end of the post-abdomen. Many eggs are produced at once. The male opening is at the base of the abdomen, as in Sidide. The general habitus is, however, lynceid. The males appear in autumn or when, by the gradual drying up of | the water or other causes, the continued existence of the animals is. threatened. 1. GeNus Eurycercus, Baird. Characters of the sub-family. Eurycercus lamellatus, 0. F. Mueller. (Plate H, Figs. 5-6.) Lynceus lamellatus, MUELLER, EDWARDS, KOCH, ZADDACH, LIEVIN, LEYDIG, ZENKER Eurycercus lamellatus, BAIRD, LILLJEBORG, SCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ, BIRGE, HERRICK. Eurycercus laticaudatus, FISCHER, SCHOEDLER. A gigantic lynceid, reaching the dimension of 3mm. The figure of the male given will sufficiently illustrate the general form. ‘The abdomen is broad and armed behind witk a dense row of saw-teeth. The eye is larger than the rather small pigment fleck, and the in- testine is bent upon itself but not coiled. The last foot is found in few other Lynceide. Acroperus has the same, and Pleuroxus uni- — dens also has a rudimentary sixth foot. STATE GEOLOGIST. 81 SUB-FAMILY IIl—LYNCEIN Ai. Intestine coiled; anus near the end of the post-abdomen; open- ing of vas deferens nearly terminal. There are no anterior ceca but usually a single anal diverticle of the intestine. Rarely or never more than two embryos produced at once. SERrEs A. Head or dorsal line keeled or ridged ; abdomen long; shell marked with diagonal striz. This section is proposed for the old genera Camptocereus, Acroperus and Alo- nopsis, which seem to form a natural group though passing directly into Al :na. u.—GeENus Camprocercus (>Camptocercus, Baird). This easily recognizable genus contains two groups, each with several nominal species, which are distinguished mainly by the width of the post-abdomen. In both the shell is elongated, more or less quadrangular, longitudinally striate, armed behind with one to four minute teeth. The head and back are keeled and the former strongly arched. The antennules rarely extend beyond the beak and are commonly curved laterally. The eye is proportionately small. The post-abdomen is long and furnished with a lateral row of scales. The terminal claws have a single basal spine and are serrate. There is an ephippium, and the male opening is in front of the terminal claws. Sus-Genus 1.—Acroperus, Baird. Post-abdomen broad, margins parallel; anal teeth very minute lateral scales large and usurping their place. Aatenne with eight setee (53). Three species are described, one of which is very abund- ant in Minnesota. Sp. 1. Acroperus leucocephalus, Koch. (Plate E, Fig. 5. Platel, Fig, 9.) Iyneceus leucocephalus, KOCH, FISCHER. Acroperus harp#, BAIRD. Acroperus leucocephalus, SCOHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ Acroperus sp., HERRICK. Acroperus striatus, JURINE, M. EDWARDS, LIEVIN, LILLJEBORG, LEYDIG, ete., seems to belong here, but I am able to add nothirg to the eluci- dation of the puzzle. Body rounded above, angled behind; head podes tely arched and earinated. Lower margin of the shell pectinate, terminating in 6 82 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. two teeth. The antenne are long and when reflexed the sete reach nearly to the posterior margin of the shell. The posterior angle is not always as prominent as shown in fig. 5, Sp. 2. Acroperus angustatus, Sars. (Plate I. Fig. 10.) | Acroperus angustatus, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ. This species is distinguished from the former by the head, which is higher and very strongly arched. The dorsal contour is nearly straight. The antenne are shorter. The form of the post-abdomen of the male is less different from that of the female than in the above. The length of both species is about 0.7 mm. The American form figured in fig. 5 of plate E differs from both the above slightly. The head is carinated and incurved almost as in C. angustatus; the antenne fall a little short of reaching the posterior margin of the too low and oblong shell; there is an ob- vious depression between the head and body. However, in the main there is close agreement with C. leucocephalus, to which it has been previously referred. There is always a rudiment of an additional pair of feet. A. cavirostris, P. EK. Mueller, is not known in the female sex. The male has a twisted caudal claw. SuB-GENUS 2.—CAMPTOCERCUS, Baird. Although the general form is similar to the last section, the body is usualiy longer; the post-abdomen narrows toward the end; the anal teeth exceed the lateral row; the antennz have usually but seven setae (7). The species enumerated are so closely related as almost to baffle definition. Key TO THE SUB-GENUS CAMPTOCERCUS (verus). Beak pointed. (a) Head depressed. I. Pigment fleck larger than the eye. 1. OC. biserratus, SCHOEDLER. II. Pigment fleck smaller than the eye. 2. C. macrurus, O. F. MUELLER. (b) Head direeted forward. 3. C. rectirostris, SCHOEDLER. Beak truncate below. 4. C. latirostris, KURZ. STATE GEOLOGIST. 83 Beak cleft below or with a forward projection. (a) Antennules shorter than the beak. 5. C. lilljeborgii, SCHOEDLER. (b) Antennules longer than the beak. 6. C. rotundus, HERRICK. Sp.1. Camptocerecus biserratus, Schoedler. (Plate I. Fig. 4.) Is very nearly related to the next, from which it is distinguished chiefly by the fact that the pigment fleck is larger than the eye. Schoedler overlooked the fact that in C. macrurus there is a lateral line of scales on the abdomen, and relied upon that character to distinguish this form. (Schoedler says that the pigment fleck in C. macrurus is smaller than the eye, P. E. Mueller says they are nearly equal, while in our specimens they are much smaller or nearly equal.) If much variability is found, Schoedler’s species seems to rest on aslender basis. The basal spine of the claw, however, seems to be peculiar in sitting on a distinct prominence. Sp. 2. Camptocercus macrurus, Mueller. (Plate KE. Fig. 10.) Lynceus macrurus, LILLJEBORG, SCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER, KURZ, BIRGE, HERRICK. This universally distributed species occurs in our larger bodies of water and is not rare, though hardly abundant, The body is long and nearly rectangular; the head strongly arched and keeled. The keel of the head is extended down the whole dorsal line. The dorsal line is moderately curved, while the shell is but slightly excavated below. The head extends into a blunt beak looking downward; the direction of the head is some- what variable (from vertical to an angle of about 30°). The eye is much larger than the pigment fleck; the antennules are shorter than the beak, and have one elongated terminal seta. The post- abdomen is very long and has numerous anal teeth as well as a lateral row of scales. The basal spine of the claws is large and ser- rate, the claw itself being nearly straight and armed with an in- creasing series of spines to beyond the middle. The lateral scales of the post-abdomen are inconspicuous. The shell gland is long. The antennules reach to almost the end of the beak, are curved and bear a lateral flagellum. The first foot of the female has a sort of hook (branchial sac?). The labrum is armed with teeth on the posterior face of the triangular process. The intestine is very trongly, almost twice coiled. The lower margins of the valves are 84 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. feebly spined for three-fourths their length, and armed with from one to four teeth at the angle. Length 0.8 mm. to 1.0 mm. Sp. 3s. Camptocercus rectirostris, Schoedier. (Plate I. Figs. 1—3.) Camptocercus rectirostris, SSOHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLEB, KURZ. Distinguished from the above, which it closely resembles, by the form of the head, which is less rounded and directed anteriorly. It hardly exceeds half the hight of the body. The beak is sharp. I am not sure that Weismann’s figures (I. ¢., plate XI, figures 13 and 14) really belong to this species, for the drawing of the post-abdo- me‘ does not agree with that of P. E. Mueller fully. Outline copies. of the former are given in plate I, figs. 1 and 2. The male hasa hook upon the first foot. Not yet recognized in America. Sp. 4. Camptocercus latirostris, Kurz. (Plate I. Figs. 5—6.) C. lilljeborgii, P. E. MUELLER (?). Closely allied to the next, but distinguished by the position of the head, which is a little less depressed, and, especially, by the truncate beak. The dorsal margin is convex and crested; the lower outline is also convex. The claws are toothed more as in C. macru- rus than the following. The basal spine springs from the claw itself and not from the post-abdomen as in the next. Length 0.9 mm. to 1.0 mm. Sp. 5. Camptocercus lilljeborgii, Schoedler. (Plate I. Figs. 7—8.) Head depressed, rounded in front: beak divided at the end by the extension of the fornices. The terminal claws are pectinate for their entire length, and the basal spine is seated on the end of the post-abdomen. ‘This species, in the main, closely resembles C. macrurus. Sp. 6. Camptocercus rotundus, Herrick. The second of the two species found in America is this short, strongly carinated form, which is known from a single gathering. It differs from all the above species, with which it agrees pretty well in shape, by its more eompact form; high dorsal keel (which extends the entire length of the body); the long antennules, which extend far below the beak; and the somewhat pointed beak. The STATE GEOLOGIST. 85 head is much as in the last, but it is not certain that the beak is cleft, although it has a peculiar form (not indicated in the figure) near the end. The lengthis0.7 mm. The terminal setz of the antennules are very unequal; but in most points, as in the armature of the post-abdomen, the details resemble C. macrurus. 111.—GENUS ALONOPSIS, Sars. This curious genus includes three species of small lynceids, which exhibit a combination of characters. The form of the beak and head is like that of Pleuroxus, which the form and sculpture of the shell otherwise resembles. The back is extended more or less in a knife-like ridge above, thus resembling Acroperus, aresemblance hightened by the excavated lower margin. The form of the post- abdomen approaches that of Acroperus, but in that genus it is of about equal width throughout and in this it rapidly narrows. The internal organs and feet are of the typical lynceid form, while the antenne aré as in Pleuroxus. The type of the genus, A. elongata, is apparently much closer to Acroperus than the two species which have been identified in America. Shell sub-rectangular, high, produced into a ridge above; lower margin convex anteriorly, concave behind; beak rather long; an- tennules slender; antenne with eight sete; abdomen long, nar- rowed toward end, in¢éised at the extremity; claw rather large, with median spines and a basal thorn; third foot with a long bristle. Male smaller, without the carina above; orifice of sexual organs in front of the claw, which is removed from theanterior margin. The young are more elongate and (sometimes) have hexagonal reticula- tions instead of the usual strong diagonal striz. Motion slow. Sp. 1. Alonopsis elongata, Sars. Lynceus macrurus, LIEVIN. Lynceus macrurus, ZENKER, LEYDIG. Alona elongata, SARS. Acroperus intermedius, SCHOEDLER. Alonopsis elongata, P. E. MUELLER. The shell is wide, the upper margin forming an even curve: manifestly angled behind; ventral margin nearly straight, ciliated throughout, with a single tooth behind. Fornices large; head nar- row, not carinate. Post-abdomen compressed, truncate at the end, armed with a series of marginal spines and of lateral scales; caudal claws large, with a single spine at the base and two median spines followed by a series of minute setz. 86 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. This form I have never seen, and it seems somewhat doubtful that the following really belong with it. Sp. 2. Alonopsis latissima, Kurz. (Plate E, Fig, 8. Plate G, Figs, 1 and 9.) Body very high, compressed, with a high dorsal keel or ridge; the upper outline strongly and evenly arched, terminating be- hind in no angle; lower margin almost angled at the anterior third, rounded behind, fringed with long bristles anteriorly, with short ones posteriorly. Head very narrow; beak extremely long; fornices small; antennules nearly as long as the beak, straight and narrow; pigment fleck smaller than the eye. The abdomen is long, some- what narrowed toward the end, where it is deeply cleft; the terminal claw is furnished with a large and small basal spine, while there is an increasing series of spines extending to the middle. The elongated spine of the third foot is pectinate and reaches nearly to the posterior margin of the shell. ‘The shell is marked by few strong striz which are diagonal except anteriorly where are a few parallel to the front margin. The male is small and lacks the crest on the back, while the lower margin is straight; the an- tennz are longer than the beak and differ somewhat from those of the female. The first foot has a claw. The post-abdomen lacks the anal teeth. Kurz gives the size as 0.5 mm. The American form varies between 0.45 mm. and 0.55 mm., and seems to have a higher dorsal keel and longer beak. Kurz speaks of but a single accessory spine on the terminal claws; there is, how- ever, a Second very minute spine or cluster of hairs in this as well as the following. Found in the same gathering with the following near Minnea- polis (marshy off-set from Bassett’s creek near Oak Lake Addition).* *NOTE TO ALONOPSIS LATISSIMA, (See Fig.1, Plate G.) Since writing the above the males of our American form have been found ; they are shaped as the females, with a. high dorsal keel ; the post-abdomen is rounded,with transverse series of small bristles ; the claw has a minute median spine, and the porus genitalis is anterior and elevated. Sp. 3. Alonopsis media, LBirge. (Plate E. Fig. 9.) I give Birge’s description verbatim: “Rostrum prolonged, and shell sharp, somewhat quadrangular in shape, marked by strie. The dorsal margin is convex, the hinder margin nearly straight. Its lower angle is rounded and without teeth. The lower margin is concave and has long plumose sete. OL STATE GEOLOGIST. 87 The front margin is strongly convex. The post-abdomen is long and slender, resembling that of Camptocereus, and is notched at the distal extremity; it has two rows of fine teeth and some fine ‘scales above them. The terminal claws are long, slender, with a basal spine, a spine in the middle, and are serrated. The antennules are long and slender, but do not reach to the end of the rostrum. They have each a flagellum and sense hairs. The antenne are small and have eight (#7) sete and two (Sr) spines. The labrum resembles that of A. leucocephalus, but is slightly prolonged at the apex. The intestine, cecum and color resemble those of Acrope- rus. There is a trace of a keel present on the back.” The specimens seen in Minnesota resemble this species very nearly, apparently, but there are some differences. The terminal claw of the post-abdomen has an increasing series of spines to the middle; there seems to be no lateral row of scales beside the anal teeth; the abdomen is rather broad at the base and narrows toward the end. The shell is not square behind. The lower margin has a few long hairs anteriorly which are followed by a series of teeth, and in the concave part a somewhat longer set to a point just be- fore the lower curved angle. The pigment fleck is nearly or quite as large as theeye. The antennule is shorter than the beak (which is almost as in Pleuroxus hastatus), and has a flagellum about midway; at its base it is nar- rowed and inserted on a prominence. The embryo still in the brood sac had a more elongate form and hexagonal reticulations upon the shell, while the antennules were longer than the very long beak, and the pigment fleck was smaller than the eye. Length of female 0.52 mm. The color is darker, and the striz more numerous, than in A. latissima. Series B. This section includes forms with (usually) no keel above, or, if . keeled, the post-abdomen is not long. The majority are highly arched dorsally, and have comparatively short post-abdomen and ‘pointed beak. The antenne are usually feeble and the motion slow. A. Post-abdomen nearly round in outline, armed with very long stout spines, terminal claw with one minute basal spine or none; greatest hight of shell about equal to the posterior margin. 1. Genus Leydigia. : B. Greatest hight of shell moderately exceeding that of posterior margin ; post-abdo- men more or less triangular, armed with bristles; shell marked with hexagonal meshes. (a) Head nearly horizontal, blunt ; post-abdomen prominent in the anal region. 2. Genus Graptoleberis. $8 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. (b) Head depressed, acute ; post-abdomen excised near the anus. 8. Genus Crepidocercus. ©. Post-abdomen more or less quadrangular, armed with one or two rows of small teeth on either side behind ; terminal claws with one or two basal spines ; hight of posterior shell margin usually less than the greatest hight of shell. 4. Genus Lynceus. D. Greatest hight of shell little less than that of posterior shell margin; post-abdo- men terete ; terminal claws very minute. 5. Genus Phrixura, BE. Greatest hight of shell more than double that of posterior margin. (a) Eye aud first foot normal. 6. Genus Chydorus. (b) First foot with a claw which extends beyond the shell. % Genus Anchistropus. (ce) Eye absent, only pigment fleck used for vision. 8. Genus Monospilus. 1v.—Genvs Leypietra, Kurz. In this genus, both the known species of which are found in America, the posterior part of the shell and body is emphasized at the expense of the anterior. The curved posterior margin is equal to the greatest hight of the shell. The head and anterior part of the body are of the form characteristic of Alona; indeed, the whole body is in plan like Alona, but in the back part the organs are all enlarged. The general form of the body and abdomen recalls Ilyocryptus; the post-abdomen, in particular is very like that genus. The last two pairs of feet are much enlarged. The shell is usually irregularly marked with longitudinal strie; the lower. margin is covered with long spine-like sete. The post-abdomen is armed with several sets of long spines and aggregations of bristles and small spines; it is almost round and enormously enlarged. The intestine is coiled and expanded at the end, but the anal cecum is rudimentary. The antenne are heavily spined and have eight setz; the labrum is more or less hairy. The male has a strong hook on the first foot, and between the terminal claws of the abdomen is a peculiar intromittent organ. Sp.1. Leydigia quadrangularis, Leydig. (Plate H. Fig. 4.) Lynceus quadrangularis, LEYDIG, FRIC. Alona leydigii, SSCHOEDLER, P. E. MUELLER. Leydigia quadrangularis, KURZ. The shell is comparable to that of Alona quadrangularis, but higher behind; the markings are not very distinct; shell trans- parent. The head is very small; the eye smaller than or of about the size of the pigment fleck. The post-abdomen is very broad, the STATE GEOLOGIST. 89 posterior margin nearly the segment ofacircle, armed with numer- ous very long unequal spines which extend only about half the hight, being replaced by short close hairs; the anal opening is very high; the terminal claws are long, straightish, and have a small thorn near the base. The males are smaller than the females, and the abdomen is less broad; the antennules are longer than the beak and furnished with a flagellum. The sexual period occurs in September or irregularly. This species has only been encountered once, during September, in Poplar river, Cullman county, Alabaina. Sp.2. Leydigia acanthocercoides, Fischer. Lynceus acanthocercoides. FISCHER, LEYDIG. Burycercue acanthocercoides, SCOHOEDLER. Alona acanthocercoides, P. E, MUELLER. Leydigia acanthocercoides, KURZ. Leydigia quadrangularis, HERRICK. This species, reported in a previous paper, is, as was said, nearest like L. acanthocercoides; and I am now able to verify the very in- conspicuous differences upon which the two are separated. Our specimens of the L. quadrangularis have the pigment fleck fully as large as the eye, Kurz to the contrary notwithstanding, and the claw of the post-abdomen is present, while in the present species the pigment fleck is much larger and furnished with lenses; the spine of the claw is wanting; the labrum is densely hairy; the abdo- men is narrower, and the shell higher. The shell is very obviously striped in the posterior portion. The anus is higher than in the previous species. In other respects the two seem alike. v.—GENUS GRAPTOLEBERIS, Sars. A genus containing two closely allied species, having some affinities with Alonella. The shell is entirely reticulated, and there is a sort of erest along the back; while, on the other hand, the head is flat- tened and rounded in front. There can hardly be said to be a beak. Seen from above, the animal resembles some species of Alonella, but the head is larger proportionally and more horizontal. The lower posterior angle is spined. The antennz have seven sete and are very long, in this respect resembling Camptocercus. The dorsal contour is not greatly arched... The post-abdomen has short claws .and anal bristles, but no teeth. 90 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Sp.1. Graptoleberis testudinaria, Fischer. Lynceus testudinarius, LEYDIG, LILLJEBORG. Lynceus reticulatus, FRIC. Alona testudinaria, SCHOEDLER. ‘ . Graptoleberis testudinaria, KURZ. Graptoleberis inermis, BIRGE. Form trapezoidal; lower margin straight, armed behind with two teeth, thickly beset with long hairs in front; the dorsal margin is not greatly elevated, rounded at the posterior angle, forming a. slight “thump” where it unites with the head shield. The head and shell are reticulated with hexagonal or quadrangular markings. The shell gapes below and rises to a sharp ridge above. The an- tenne have long rami, the antennules being hardly longer than the fornices. The eye is large; the pigment fleck is small. The post-abdomen is narrowed toward the end, rounded in front; the terminal claws are small and have two basal teeth. The dorsal margin of the post-abdomen is covered with tufts of hairs. The winter eggs have no ephippium. Length 0.55 mm.to0.7mm. The male is smaller and has a lower dorsal keel; the post-abdomen is excavated behind. The only differences between the Minnesota specimens and the typical European form seemed to be the absence ofthe very minute spines on the front of the terminal claws. The eye and pigment. fleck are of about the proportions figured by Kurz. Birge’s figure of the post-abdomen does not agree with his description fully. Our Minnesota specimens have an obvious but not high keel. © Sp. 2. Graptoleberis reticulata, Baird. Alona reticulata, BAIRD, P. E, MUELLER. Lynceus reticulatus, LILLJEBORG, LEYDIG. Alona esocirostris, SCHOEDLER. Graptoleberis reticulata, SARS, KURZ. Shell almost rectangular, reticulate, ventral margin straight, ciliate anteriorly, with two teeth behind. Pigment fleck smaller than the eye. Post-abdomen short, narrowed towards the end, dorsally covered with clusters of spines; caudal claws with a minute tooth at the base. Length 0.4 mm. to 0.5 mm. The pigment fleck is nearer the end of the beak than the eye, dig is smaller than in the previous species, but, on the whole, there is. perhaps, too great similarity. STATE GEOLOGIST. ; OF vi.-—-GENuUS CREPIDOCERCUS, Birge. The characters of this group place it rather near Alonella or be- tween that and Pleuroxus. Form sub-quadrate with rounded angles; dorsal line uniformly arched, terminating in a sharp angle behind; lower margin convex, armed behind with a single spine as in Pleuroxus unidens, and along the entire length with loose setz. Beak of moderate length, acute. Post-abdomen deeply incised in the anal region; lower posterior margin straight, rounded at the apex; ventral margin straight or concave; claws with asingle basal ' spine and a few teeth. The post-abdomen is shoe-shaped and armed with transverse rows of sete. The antenne are large, having eight sete and the usual spines. Shell smooth or reticulate. Sp. J. Crepidocercus setiger, Birge. (Plate F. Fig. 13.) Length 0.4 mm. to 0.6mm. Minnesota specimens measured 0 5: mm. This, the only species of the genus, is but rarely encounter- ed, and is so peculiar as to be easily recognized when seen. Alona intermedia has a post-abdomen with clusters of bristles, but in Crepidocercus the post-abdomen is more as in species of Graptoleberis. than any other genus. The markings upon the shell are very indistinct. vu.—Genus Lyncezvs, O. F. Mueller. The perplexing inter-relations between the three genera Alona, Alonella and Pleuroxus give rise to the utmost confusion. No two. authors are agreed as to their respective limits, and the points given by Kurz, who has carefully gone over the ground, are obviously insufficient. Although there may be practical benefits to be derived from the continuance of the nomenclature in use for groups which in the general view can be distinguished, the value from a theoreti- eal standpoint is reduced to a minimum. The genus Camptocercus (including here Acroperus, which differs solely in the form of the abdomen, as a sub-genus) passes through Alonopsis into the group represented by Alona. Leydigia, although very near such forms as Alona quadrangulata, may be conveniently | distinguished as a transition to species like Ilyocryptus. 92 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Phrixura, Graptoleberis and Crepidocercus, each containing few “species vrhich can be readily recognized, fill a place in the system; but it is practically impossible to distinguish Alona from Pleurox us without instituting the very indefinite genus Alonella to contain a ‘variety of small intermediate forms. Percantha, Rhypophilus, Harporhynchus and Pleuroxus seem to be pretty generally regarded -as constituting a single group which may be recognized by the long rostrum, high shell and greater development of the antenna bristles. Alona, on the other hand, with its broader fornices, shorter beak, fairly developed antenne, and more rectangular shell, is, per- haps, the pivotal point of the group. According to this view, then, the old name Lynceus is revived for the aggregate; and the other names are retained, in part, as titles of largely conventional groups or sub-genera, thus: Genus LYNCEUS. Sub-genus ALONA. Section A. Alona vera. Section B, Alonella. Sub-genus PLEUROXUS. Section A. Plewroxus verus. Section B. Leptorhynchus. 1 Characters of Percantha and Rhypophilus are combined in the species P. procurvus, Birge, so that one must be dropped or new diagnoses formulated. I am not sure that the same species is not at first Pleuroxus verus? and only later assumes the form known as Rhypophilus. So with Percantha the amount of serrature of the posterior margin is in part a question of age. Sus-GENUS ALONA. This group contains two sections which resemble each other in form and, in general, in detail; but it is exceedingly difficult to formulate a diagnosis that shall strictly limit it. The form is generally sub-quadrangular with rounded corners; the terminal claw is armed with but a single spine at the base; the beak is rather short; and the prevailing marking consists of longitudinal lines. Section A. Alona (vera). Baird. This genus contains a large number of minute animals which are widely distributed. 1 Instead of Harporhynchus, a name preoccupied in zoology. 2 Embryos of P. procurvus have the part which is to be curved forward attenuated — ‘before leaving the breod-cavity, however. la STATE GEOLOGIST. ( 93: The authors who have done the most to elucidate this genus are Schoedler, P. E. Mueller, and Kurz. Birge has contributed most largely, thus far, to the knowledge of American species, which are, for the most part, identical or very close to the Kuropean. No other genus is so difficult among the Lynceide, for the most minute differences are relied upon to distinguish species. The: species of this genus are not greatly altered by the production of the winter eggs. The males are frequently but little smaller than the opposite sex, and are recognized by the altered form of the post-abdomen and the presence of a hook on the first foot. The form is more perfectly rectangular than in the next section; the shell is only exceptionally reticulated and very rarely tuberculate, occasionally smooth. The lower angle of the shell is not armed with spines, but is generally rounded. There is only one basal spine upon the claw of the post-abdomen, which usually bears a row of scales beside. the anal spines. The antenne have eight, sete. The claw of the male post-abdomen is removed from the lower angle. About twenty species are known, all of which that seemed recog- nizably defined have been included in the following key, which is believed to be more nearly natural in its arrangement than that of Kurz, which would separate the European and American represen- tatives of the A. parvula group. Many more forms remain to re- ward the labor of American students. Those mentioned from Minnesota could probably all be found by a few days search in one- locality. Kery To Section A, ALONA. A. Shell reticulate. (a) Reticulations horizontal. 1. A. guttata, Sars. (b) Reticulations oblique. 2. A. angulata, Birge. B. Shell lined, smooth or tuberculate. (a) Over 0.5 mm. in length. I. Shell densely striate. 3. A. sanguinea, P. E. Mueller. II. Shell normally, evidently striate. * Post-abdomen narrowed at the end. + Armed with elongate teeth below. 4, A. tenuicaudis, Sars. +t Teeth of post-abdomen nearly equal. 5. A. lineata. Fischer. (Shell arched.) 94 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 6. A. modesta, Herrick. (Shell straight above.) ** Post-abdomen not narrowed. + Antenne with seven setz. (?)7. A. costata, Sars. tt Antenne with eight setz. 8. A. quadrangularts, Mueller. III. Shell faintly, irregularly striped; eye of same size as pigment fleck. 9. A. oblonga, P. E. Mueller. IV. Shell smooth. 10. A. affinis, Leydig, (b) Under 0.5 mm. in length. I. Post-abdomen armed with a row of hairs terminating in large teeth. 11. A. dentata, P. E. Mueller. , II. (One or) two rows of teeth present. * Shell densely and evenly striate. 12. A. elegans, Kurz. ** Shell not densely lined. + Shell smooth or lined longitudinally. + Teeth of post-abdomen unequal, the lower ones enlarged. 13. A. porrecta, Birge. tt Teeth nearly equal. § Form elongated ; abdomen with a lateral line of spiny scales. 14. A. spinifera, Schoedler. §§ Form squarish ; abdomen with a lateral line of simple spines or brisiles, or neither. 15. A. parvula, Kurz. 16. A. glacialis, Birge. ttt Clusters of bristles, not spines, on the posterior edge of the post-abdomen. 17. askeenhieere 138 Pe palli@us: . . .....2-i sepia 142 WO VISANGUINEUS)..\: -. 2 serie 138 DD SUGUAS (at's fois ee ae eee 142 HOE SIMS: ce ees ee eae 141 Dstagnalisy + 2. ..4. »> «ene 139 DF WESEWOOGT cece + os \scitetedoehel: 137 Enemies of Entomostraca...... 8 Hpischura, Genus... itasennssy +’ 130 WBreMUUIVTAUHIS 5 cio cre anh dee eee 132 MA CUSUTIS 22 025.s.chy see eee 131 Breasilus, Genus .'s -.dsjewsjae ts 174 HH (GOPLESSUS,... 2580 oie atyeeiiereleeetat V7 HA SieDOlGi. } Jojreo sock eee 174 Eurycercine, Sub-family....... 80 EBurycereus, Genus. ..:.5 (jeiee 80 Bi lamellatus: i: 36.3 .9 me ernee 80 Fe Jaticaudatws. :..)...1-..8 4, etal SSO EWA 5. a5. 5 os aysieers poise, atone ale 122 Ferric perchloride............. 179 Graptoleberis, Genus .......... 89 Ge ANOLMUIS 57.3. 22 wis scueyen) Ae ates 90 G:. reticulata. +2555. Aoxes wares 90 G., testudinaria.|... |. ‘ny sine sie 90 Page. Gymnomera, Sub-order .... .. 120 Flarpacticid . :cj..3.4:.0. bene 183 Harpacticus, Genus............ 184 i chelifer 3...) 2... 4.4 ce eee 184 Hp Sr Aacilis, ¢ 4... ste. ene + ee 184 Harporhynchus faleatus........ 114 Heterocope, Genus ............ 130 HE. alpina. : 3.505, 2... see 130 H. appendiculata ....... 250. 04 130 Hy salienss 4.52.2. . +o 130 Holopedide, Family. .. ..... 22° Holopedium, Genus............ 22 EX, gibberm®. 2). .-.-. eae 22 Ilyocryptus, Genus .... 2.4.5, 3450). 025.5. 4) IBA Ss AMeTLICAMUSS ye eee G ueireiae A7, 48 Map A SMC, eras ei et cic skates oi weno Mile OP REOMMCITEL OG parts cache pia ete 48 Percantha truncata............ 112 S. daphnoides’.....5........... A8 hrixiras Genus: .) os)... 2525. TRAY Se XqOIMOSWU Shar eer enele eee hao 47 TC CUTOSULIS {103 Shea ee PSO SS OSULALUS Ge eyeia ener nlenerieyane/ oh: 47 TACULOXUS. SUD-SEMUS. . ss... NOG Suserrulatus, oss che ele: 46 MPG MUILOSUELS sikh ra e oaoue OOS VECULUSH ere oui tr ON ait: 46 PPAPACUMICTUSH nee eye speesione aie cle 109 Streblocercus,Genus........... 72 JE), CGT GUISE ire Mitr ret Ain int yA TEA Io Sa TOA So abe Soo eon bk: ARTO. Baa D VIET ss eicye) Secs Sharan A TOO INA GTA GINS) eees ees yes an cia tens sivuc 129 mydenticulatus... 203... ..5.... 110) Memora.Genus;. 2222.25. -: 133, 182 127s, GIGI OYE) Rr eae tae ee eR at AGT e MAD GTN Siete sie Geechee uae 133, 182 . PUVA GUS rs o2) oo) Sitio ale eel PALO s eurcran en Gaerne ier Sc steseva: esis ei auoisrels 133 SPREE T SUNG UES Sires cheated av meee A fimmmamehtay sen ae Boats 133 PAPEESOMATUS Hoe ae ek HIS | 40S cere VOI Si alibi noua Bis ae 138, 182 Rea ING UUS vase sess in iat eek Says TOMCICORMIS: Ith ack oe kien. 133 ES Eomellus ses ose HO SIMA WElONG Serr Cogs, echt nes 133, 182 HER UURUMNC ABUTS ete eee ls ccs gala at MMM OTeN TA Mi eke eine eres eee opens 143 Ee UNINC LINA GUS ya pecahve rar ai ks age aie ts 114 Utricularia vulgaris........... 8 PLATE A. abdomen of Moina paradoxa, female, from Minnesota. . spine from post-abdomen. post-abdomen of Moina rectirostris. head of M. paradoxa, female, showing (a) eye with pig- ment and lenses, (b) supra-cesophagal ganglion, anten- nule with (c) its muscle, (d) its nerve, and (e) its terminal sensory filaments, (f) the cecum of stomach, (g) optic ganglion, (h) stomach, (i) esophagus, (j) the muscles which move the eye, also part of the labrum. antenne of same. ephippium of WV. rectirostris. % of M. paradoxa. seminal cell of M. paradoxra; Ta, a group less magnified. seminal celis of M. rectirostris. first foot of male of M. paradoxa. eee eM, rectirostris (from Weismann). male M. rectirostris (from Weismann). head of Ceriodaphnia rotunda. (This and the following numbers after P. E. Mueller.) head of C. punctata. “ C. pulchella. YY C. reticulata. C. quadrangula, C. quadrangula. post-abdomen of C. quadrangula. eS C. pulchella. C. megops. C. reticulata. a C. laticaudata. C. rotunda, be MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. 12th Annual Report PLATE A. Geol. & Nat. Hist-Sur: Minn. CLirerreck + Fig. PLATE B. Ceriodaphnia rotunda, male (after Kurz). C. alabamensis. female. C. reticulata, post-abdomen of male with opening of vas deferens (after Weismann). C. consors ? ? C. scitula, head of female. do., post-abdomen. do., antennule of male. do., semen cell of male. Scapholeberis angulata, adult female; 9a. first foot. Schapholeberis armata, t do., view from below. Lyxcodaphnia macrothroides, young. do., labrum. do., antennule. do., last foot, purple pigment in lower part. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. 12th Annual Report PLATE B. Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sur: Minn. % —S_—— WS a BEAT wey () een os OSU ROLES geese f CL Merrick PLATE B', Fig. 1. Lyncodaphnia maerothroides (= Ofryoxus?), adult female, showing coiled intestine, elevated anus, long antennules, elongated seta of second antenne, anterior ceca, ete. Fig. 2. post-abdomen of the same. Fig. 3. antennule. Figs. 4--6. Polyphemus pediculus, young and adult females. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. From the 10th Annual Report. PLATE B1. — Geol. &: Nat. Hist. Sux. Minn. , ‘ \. . = bse wens lia Jed : ere aly cohen Seta A necla eyeere ts tinny tle es pormpms iral hyeli a eB co -. Let le cenit em ers 6 = arepe iether eM api SOW AD or go tO ES PLATE C. Macrothrix tenuicornis, la. labrum. do., first foot. do., antennz of young. Macrothrix pauper. Macrothriz rosea, antenna of male. do., spines of shell-margins. do., post-abdomen. Macrothriz laticornis, male. do., semen cells. Pasithea rectirostris, male antenna. Macrothriz rosea, post-abdomen. Macrothrix tenuicornis, “ Macrothrix rosea, post-abdomen of male. - Drepanothrix dentata, antenna. Ilyocryptus sordidus, marginal spines. do., antenna. do., post-abdomen. Ilyocryptus spinifer, 18a. marginal spines. do., antenna. Macrothrix tenuicornis, heart and accompanying vessels. Ilyocryptus spinifer, post-abdomen. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. 12 th Annual Report PLATE C. Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sur: Minn. anit CL.Herreck 1 PR ET Ie Be SS Nera i va av] —_ ane Z yf fi. ? im 4 ay. " " a $ hi NT ay : Git sear mn Fe er le a pies ie au : +. as tox. oS, tig en el hae ee ee Oe ceslaghes es es er ee ee PLATE D. — Lathonura rectirostris. female, from above. a. eye. b. optic ganglion. c. mus- cles of eye. d. muscles of antenna. e. dorsal sucking disc. f. stomach. g. young in brood cavity. female, from side. head seen from below. maxille. first foot. ovary. antennule. last foot. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. 12th Annual Report PLATE D. Geol. &-Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn. OLMerrick Lo ly =¥ wy i ef " Fig ig. 10. CD TI OP O bo PLATE E. Alona quadrangularis, female. A. antennule. Lb. labrum. Md. mandible. P-a. post- abdomen. An. anus. F. c. musculus flexor caudalis. E. c. musculus extensor caudalis. A. g. anal gland. n. g. nutritive globule inembryo. t. tail of embryo. I, II, U1, LV, V. five pairs of feet of embryo. mx. maxilla of embryo. at?. antenne of embryo. at !. antennules of embryo. H. heart. Sh. g. shell gland. Ov. ovary. Md. m. muscleof mandible. At.? m. muscle of antenne. E. eye. s. ce. g. supra-cesophagal ganglion. P. F. pig- ment fleck. brain, eye and pigment fleck of same. Pleuroxus procurvus, female. foot of same. Acroperus leucocephalus. Alonella excisa, female; 6a. shell of same. antenne of same. Alonopsis latissima, female. Alonopsis media, female. Camptocercus macrurus, post-abdomen. . 10a. lower angle of shell of same. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. Geol, & Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn. PLATE E. 12th Annual Report 2 S ie s x x ae eae eae ek ea PLATE F. Chydorus globosus. do., first foot. do., end of post-abdomen. Chydorus sphericus, male. Chydorus nitidus, post-abdomen of female. Chydorus nitidus, head. Chydorus sphwricus, ephippial female. do., female. Chydorus globosus, post-abdomen of male. Chydorus sphericus, from above. Chydorus ovalis. Chydorus celatus. Crepidocercus setiger. Alona affinis. Pleuroxus unidens; 15a, antenna. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA. PLATE F. Geol. & Nat.Hist. Sur Minn., 1? th Annual Report CLHerrick PLATE G. Fig. 1. of genial. jaw. antennule. Nauplius larva of this or a related species. MINNESOTA CRUSTACEA Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sur: Minn. PLATE H. 1% th Annual Report PLATE I. Fig. 1. Camptocercus rectirostris, post-abdomen of female. Fig. 2. do. post-abdomen of male. Fig. 3. do. male. Fig. 4. Camptocercus biserratus, head. Fig. 5. Camptocercus latirostris, head of male. Fig. 6. do., head of female. Fig. 7. Camptocercus lillgeborgii, head. Fig. 8. do., post-abdomen of female. Fig. 9. OTP OO pL PLATE U. Daas kalbergensis, of moderate size. ) : ‘ apc * é ‘ . : ‘ FAS ‘ \ Se 4 By ARs Sets ; » ‘, —~ . ” r:y sha ’ me . ’ E ‘al b a. iy x ‘. J ir pie fs bps i AWE Oe PONTE Te 2 PD, PE 0 VPA ES) ee * - 4 , ¥ ‘ 5 bh ~, a | - x ~ } hy oy 5 & 4 ¢ US esd cal ek ee ' \e> , - —— Pert. S ae . — *e. eee Om, >< - er < a 4 - “ayee . ; 5 i ; ny h i ae) j ae 7 Coe g : ri CAB eee oy. — << -% oe a Bia .< ; ae Hie aN Lb Ons ee Lor? ‘ ict . tr . ‘ A yy i ei % ‘ on ee ee | mn s " - . , / 4 ’ . ‘ ed REEL ERE. Be Mp ier. ~ Ne . . ee eA My; “a . ayes ay a CRE LY i ¥ Ney Ay Gitlin & > ay ; y ) ne 7 et THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. The following catalogue of the plants of Minnesota is presented as areport of progress in this department of the geological and natural history survey of the state. It includes not only the _ observations of the state geologist and his assistants upon this survey, but also those of earlier botanic collectors and explorers, - enumerating all the species that are known to have been found in Minnesota by all observers up to the present time. Grateful men- _ tion of the various sources, in chronologic order, from which this list is largely a compilation, is therefore its most appropriate pre- face. Hennepin, Carver, Pike, and other early explorers of this state, _ occasionally refer to some of its forest trees, wild fruits and berries, - and plants used for food or medicine by the Indians. Carver, who traveled to the upper part of the Minnesota river in 1767, wrote of _ the region through which it flows:—‘ Wild rice grows here in great abundance; and every part is filled with trees bending under their ~ loads of fruits, such as plums, grapes, and apples; the meadows are ~ covered with hops, and many sorts of vegetables; whilst the ground is stored with useful roots, with angelica, spikenard, and ground- - nuts.” On the uplands bordering the river he saw ‘“‘such amazing - quantities of maples, that ey would produce sugar sufficient for _ any number of inhabitants.” : The first published list of plants, so far as known to he writer, that includes species found in Minnesota, is in the American Jour- nal of Science, vol. iv, 1822, pages 56 to 69, entitled “Notice of the _ Plants collected by Professor D. B. Douglass, of West Point, in the expedition under Governour Cass, during the summer of 1820, - around the Great Lakes and the upper waters of the Mississippi: 7 the arrangement and description, with illustrative remarks, being furnished by Dr. John Torrey.” This includes 115 species, 26 of A : j . which were from Minnesota. The appendix of Keating’s Narrative of Major Long's Expedition in the year 1823, along the Minnesota river and the Red river of _ 6 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. the North to lake Winnipeg, and thence by the lake of the Woods ~ and Rainy lake to lake Superior, contains in pages 105 to 123, “a Catalogue of Plants collected in the North-western Territory by Mr. Thomas Say”, who accompanied this expedition. These plants were determined and the catalogue prepared for publication by Lewis D. de Schweinitz, excepting the first five species which were by Nuttall. The flowering plants and ferns in this list include 124 species, 30 of which are referred definitely to Minnesota. Both the - foregoing lists are arranged according to the Linnzan system. In Schooleraft’s Narrative of an Expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca lake, in 1832, pages 160 to 165 are entitled “Localities of Plants collected in the Northwestern Expeditions of 1831 and 1832; by Douglass Houghton, M. D., Surgeon to the Ex- peditions.” The genera in this list are arranged alphabetically, and ~ include 247 species, 115 of which are referred to this state. Nicollet’s report, describing the basin of the upper Mississippi river, from explorations during the years 1836 to 1839, contains in pages 148 to 165, a “Catalogue of plants collected by Mr. Charles Geyer, under the direction of Mr. J. N. Nicollet, during his explo- ration of the region between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers: by Professor John Torrey, M. D.” Of the 446 species in this cata- logue, about 60 were collected in Minnesota, most of the others being from Dakota. Owen’s geological report presents in its appendix, in pages 606 to 622, a ‘Systematic Catalogue of Plants of Wisconsin and Minne- sota, by C. C. Parry, M. D., made in connexion with the Geological Survey of the Northwest, during the season of 1848.” The author states that “the number vf plants comprised in this list is seven hundred and twenty-seven, included in one hundred and six natural orders.” Many of them are particularly mentioned as occurring in this state, and often interesting descriptive notes are added, some of which are quoted in the following pages. The next contribution to our knowledge of the flora of the state is by Mr. Thomas Clark, on the ‘Botany of the Northeastern Geological District of Minnesota”, forming pages 73 to 82 of the report of the state geologist, Aug. H. Hanchett, M. D., in 1865. About a hundred species are here enumerated. Some thirty of them, however, only occur in cultivation, being mostly the com~ mon grains and garden vegetables, noted to show the agricultural capability of the region. The other species of this list include chiefly _ the most important forest trees, and such shrubby and herbaceous plants as seemed of special interest because of their fruit or medi- SN ee me — STATE GEOLOGIST. q cinal qualities, accompanied with remarks respecting the size of the ' trees, und the abundance and geographical limits of the native species. The most valuable of all the publications concerning the botany of Minnesota, and the only attempt, before the present, to give a complete list, so far as known, of our flora, was ‘a Catalogue of the Plants of Minnesota, by I. A. Lapham, LL. D., of Milwaukee, Wis.”, which he prepared in 1865. Eight years later, soon after the initiation of the present survey of the state, he generously sent this manuscript to professor Winchell, as state geologist. It was published in the report of the State Horticultural Society for 1875. In the preface, Dr. Lapham states that he had consulted the lists of plants already enumerated from Douglass to Parry; but that his catalogue, nevertheless, rests chiefly upon his “own observations and collections made during several excursions into the State; one _of which, in the spring of 1857, was extended to the waters of the Red River of the North.” Dr. Lapham refers to his additional sources of information, as follows:——‘“‘In 1858 Mr. Robert Kennicott made collections of plants and animals in the Red River country which are preserved by the Northwestern University at Hvanston, Illinois. Mr. Charles A. Hubbard collected expressly for me a large number of plants, including mosses and lichens, while on a tour from Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg and Pembina, as well as while on his return by way of St. Paul. In 1861 Mr. T. J. Hale, while prosecuting geological investigations along the Mississippi river in connection with the Wisconsin State survey, made some collections of plants in Minnesota, a list of which he has kindly furnished to me. Several species are introduced upon his authority.” The flowering plants and vascular cryptogams in this catalogue comprise 896 species, besides which it also enumerates 55 species of ‘mosses, liverworts and lichens found in Minnesota. It is without notes, in respect to the part of the state where plants of limited range occur, and does not indicate whether the species are common or rare. Mr. George M. Dawson’s report to the British North American Boundary Commission, on the Geology and Resources of the region in the vicinity of the Forty-ninth Parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, published in 1875, contains in pages 351 to 379, a list of plants collected in this survey during the summers of 1873 and 1874, with notes of their localities and dates of collection, stating whether they were found in flower or in other stages of growth. This enumerates 636 phenogams and 8 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. vascular cryptogams, of which 289 were collected on the northern border of Minnesota, from the lake of the Woods to the Red river. Twenty-three species of mosses and lichens were also collected on this part of the international boundary. The rushes, sedges and grasses of this list were determined by Prof. John Macoun; by whom, as also by Mr. Dawson, some additional notes respecting their identifications of species and more recent collections in the same region and thence eastward to lake Superior, have been kindly furnished. ; Another collection of plants, numbering about 300 species, was made on the same survey, along its extent from the Red river to the Rocky mountains, in connection with the U. 8. Northern Boundary Commission, by Dr. Elliott Coues, who submitted them to Prof. J. W. Chickering for determination and report. With these were also incorporated the species of Mr. Dawson’s list (ex- cepting mosses and lichens), so far as they were not included in. Dr. Coues’ collection, making a catalogue of 692 species, besides several varieties; which was published in 1878 in the Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, vol. iv, pages 801 to 830. Ninety- six species are stated to have been found at Pembina, situated on the Red river, adjoining Minnesota. A few species of Carex, collected by Sir John Richardson at Rainy lake and the lake of the Woods, and determined hy Dr. Francis Boott, are included in the botanical appendix of Richard- son’s Arctic Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin; which also gives much valuable information as to the geographic limits northward of many of our plants. A list of the ferns of Minnesota, collected by Miss EH. W. Cathcart, comprising thirty species and three varieties, was publish- ed in 1877 in the Bulletins of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, vol. i, pages 303 and 304, ‘This list includes two especial- ly interesting species, the very rare Phegopteris calcarea, Fée, and W oodsia scopulina, Haton, which here reaches its eastern limit. The Report of the Minnesota Horticultural Society for 1884 con- tains, in pages 83 to 116, a valuable paper by Miss Sara Manning, on “The Wild Flowers of the Lake Pepin Valley”, including a catalogue of 504 species. In the same report, on pages 361 to 367, are ‘‘Notes on the Flora of western Dakota and eastern Montana adjacent to the Northern Pacific railroad,” by John B. Leiberg, in which are frequent inci- dental references to Minnesota. In the annual reports of the present Geological and Natural Hist- STATE GEOLOGIST. 9 ory Survey of Minnesota, notices of the botany of portions of the state have been published as follows:— In the first annual report, for the year 1872, a ‘List of Plants, mostly herbaceous, in the neighborhood of St. Anthony, Minne- sota; principally found on the University Grounds. 1869-1872. By Professor H. H. Twining.” This includes 230 species. In the report for 1873, lists of the trees and shrubs of the Big _ Woods, and of Big Stone lake, by Prof. Winchell. In the report for 1874, lists of the trees and shrubs of Freeborn and Mower counties, by Prof. Winchell. In the report for 1875, the trees and shrubs of Fillmore county, by Prof. Winchell; and of Olmsted, Dodge and Steele counties, by Prof. M. W. Harrington. Jn the report for 1876, the trees and shrubs of Houston and Hennepin counties, by Prof. Winchell. - in the report for 1877, the trees and shrubs of Ramsey county, by Prof. Winchell; and of Rice county, by Prof. L. B. Sperry. In the report for 1878, pages 35 to 46, “The Plants of the North Shore of Lake Superior. By B: Juni.” This is a list, with numer- ous notes of localities and relative abundance, and occasional descriptive remarks, of 218 species collected by Mr. Juni, in the summer of that year, in connection with the party there engaged _ in geological exploration; with 58 additional species, collected in the vicinity of the University, at Minneapolis, including 25 species of Carex, while 23 others of this genus are in the list preceding. In the report for 1879, pages 1388 to 149, another list of “Plants _ of the North Shore of Lake Superior, collected by T. 5. Roberts”, in connection with the geological survey in that year, from July 26 to Sept. 2; including 220 species, with frequent notes of locality, relative abundance, and other description; 100 of these species being - in addition to Mr. Juni’s list. And, in the report for 1880, pages 201 to 216, lists of 76 species of forest trees, 31 shrubs, and 259 herbaceous plants, identified by Mr. O. E. Garrison in the region of the head-waters of the Crow _ Wing river, the White Harth reservation, Itasca lake, and the _ upper Mississippi, during an exploration in the summer of that _ year for the Forestry Department of the United States Census. Besides these publications, very important contributions of notes and specimens have been received from botanists throughout the state. Mr. John B. Leiberg, of Mankato, supplied a list of about _ 750 species, collected in 1882, mostly in Blue Earth county, but / 10 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. including also a considerable number from the southwest part of the state. Many specimens collected in Blue Earth county, and others from Dakota and Montana, have been donated by Mr. Lei- berg to the State Museum. A list of about 500 species, observed chiefly in the vicinity of Minneapolis by the Young Naturalists’ Club, was communicated by Mr. Thomas 8S. Roberts, by whom nearly all these species were determined, others being by Clarence L. Herrick, F. S. Griswold, and R. 8. Williams. I am also indebted to Mr. Roberts for much further assistance in the preparation of the following catalogue. Manuscript lists, to which references are frequently made in stating the geographic range of species or local- ities of rare or local plants, were received from Mr. George B. Aiton, of Owatonna; Miss Frane E. Babbitt, of Little Falls; Miss F. §. Beane, of Faribault; Mrs. C. H. Bennett, of Pipestone City; Mrs. A. C. Blaisdell, of Saint Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Blake, of Can- non River Falls; Miss Eloise Butler, of Minneapolis; Rev. E. V. Campbell, of Saint Cloud; Mrs. M. C. Carter, of Hesper, lowa; Miss E. W. Catheart, of Washington, D.C.; Prof. L. W. Chaney, Jr., of Northfield; Mr. R. I. Cratty, of Armstrong’s Grove, Iowa; Miss Phebe A. Field, of Stillwater; Mr. Lewis Foote, of Worthington; Mr. O. E. Garrison, of Saint Cloud; Prof. C. J. Gedge, of Moorhead; Mr. H. F. Gibson, of Wabasha; Mr. W. H. Hatch, of Rock Island, Illinois; Dr. V. Havard, surgeon at Fort Pembina, Dakota; Mr. C. L. Herrick, of Minneapolis; Prof. John M. Holzinger, of Winona; Mr. B. Juni, of New Ulm; Mr. J. C. Kassube, of Minneapolis; Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Leonard, of Fergus Falls; Miss Sara Manning, of Lake City; Rev. John Pemberton, of Saint Paul; Mrs. J. W. Ray, of Lake City; Dr. J. H. Sandberg, of Red Wing; Rev. John Scott, of Emerson, Manitoba; Rev. H. M. Simmons, of Min- neapolis; Mrs. E. H. Terry, of Saint Paul; and Prof. N. H. Win- chell, of Minneapolis. Many observations in respect to the relative abundance and geographic range of species have been also noted by the writer during explorations for this survey. Though not within the province of this catalogue, it seems desir- able to mention here the lists of 775 species of Fungi, by Dr. A. E. Johnson, of Minneapolis, in the Bulletins of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, vol. i. These were nearly all collected by Dr. Johnson within the limits of Hennepin, Ramsey, Wright and Anoka counties. The fifth annual report of this survey, for the year 1876, contains the same, but with the notes somewhat abbreviated, to the number of 558 species, the extent to which the work had been car- ried at the date of that report. Dr. Johnson has also given much ee ee STATE GEOLOGIST. 11 attention to the study of the fresh-water algw, determining a large number of species. Another successful student of tresh-water alge, especially of the -Desmids, is Miss Eloise Butier, of Minneapolis. An article respect- ing these microscopic plants, by Mr. Francis Wolle, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for February, 1883 (vol. x, pages 13 to 21), enumerates eighteen species new to the United States, collected by Miss Butler in the vicinity of Minneapolis, including eight - forms (three species and five varieties) new to science. CONDITIONS DETERMINING THE CHARACTER OF THE FTORA. In considering the botany of any district, its geographic position, elevation and contour, the climate, and the diverse rocks and soils which it presents, need to be briefly stated, since these circumstan- ces control the development of the flora. Minnesota lies in the middle of the North American continent, almost midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and between the gulf of Mexico and the Arctic ocean, being distant a thousand miles or more from each of these grand bodies of water. The extent of the state from south to north is 380 miles, and its average width about 220 miles. It les between 43° 30’ and 49° north latitude, and between 90° and 97° west longitude. Its area is 84,286 square miles. The topographic features of Minnesota may be briefly summed up for its western three-quarters, as being a moderately undulating, sometimes nearly flat, but occasionally hilly expanse, gradually descending from the Coteau des Prairies and from the Leaf hills, respectively about 2000 and 1700 feet above the sea, to half that hight, or from 1000 to 800 feet, in the long flat basin of the Red river valley, and to the same hight along the valley of the Missis- sippi from Saint Cloud to Minneapolis. The only exceptions to this moderately undulating or rolling and rarely hilly contour, are the southeast part of the state where the Mississippi river and its tributaries are enclosed by bluffs from 200 to 600 feet high, and the northwest shore of lake Superior and the part of the state lying north of this lake and east of Vermilion lake. A very bold rocky highland rises 400 to 800 feet above lake Superior, within from one to five miles back from its shore-line, all along the distance of 150 miles from Duluth to Pigeon point, the most eastern extremity of Minnesota; while farther north are many hill-ranges, 200 to 500 feet higher, mostly trending from northeast to southwest or from east to west. 12 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Lake Superior is 602 feet above the sea. The shore of this lake is the lowest land in Minnesota, while its highest land is the Mesabi range, which, south of Vermilion lake and eastward, is found by Prof. Winchell to exceed 2000 feet above sea-level. Itasca lake, the head of the Mississippi, is about 1500 feet above the sea; and this river at the southeast corner of Minnesota, 620 feet. Professor Winchell estimates the average elevation of the entire state to be approximately 1275 feet above the sea. Climate is the most important of the factors by which a flora is modified, and this depends chiefly on geographic position, elevation and contour, if a sufficiently large area is taken into account. The warmest days of summer in Minnesota have a temperature of about 90° Fahrenheit, but such days are rare; and the greatest cold of winter is —— 30° or sometimes — 40°. The annual precipitation of moisture as rain and snow is from 25 to 30inches. Itis distributed somewhat equally throughout the year; damaging droughts or ex- cessive rains seldom occur. In winter the snow in the south half of the state is commonly about a foot deep during two or three months; but farther north it attains an average depth of two or three feet. The soil throughout the greater part of Minnesota consists of glacial drift, a mixture of clay,sand, gravel and boulders, clay being the principal ingredient, and boulders being usually infrequent. This deposit has been gathered from diverse formations of granite and gneiss, sandstone, limestone, and shales. Enriched at the sur- face by the decay of vegetation through centuries, the black soil on areas of the glacial drift has ordinarily a depth of one or two feet, and is very fertile. Other varieties of soil are found in tracts of gravel and sand, also generally quite fertile, which in many places border the large rivers and spread widely upon the region drained by the St. Croix and Crow Wing rivers and the upper Mis- sissippi; in the lower alluvial bottomlands, which are mostly over- flowed by the highest water of spring; on the cliffs of sandstone and limestone which border the rivers in the southeast part of the state; and on the hills of granite and crystalline schists north of lake Superior. Each peculiarity of soil affords a congenial location for plants which are absent or can not thrive elsewhere. FOREST AND PRAIRIE. The most important and conspicuous contrast presented by the vegetation covering different parts of Minnesota, is its division in forest and prairie. Forest covers the northeastern two-thirds of STATE GEOLOGIST. 13 the state, approximately; while about one-third, lying at the south and southwest, and reaching in the Red river valley to the inter- national boundary, as also the part of this valley farther north to lake Winnipeg, is prairie. The line dividing these areas, having an almost wholly timbered region on its northeast side, and a re- gion on its southwest side that is chiefly grassland, without trees or shrubs, excepting in narrow belts along the larger streams and occasional groves beside lakes, runs as follows. Entering the state from the north about fifteen miles east of Emerson and St. Vincent, it extends south-southeastward to Red Lake Falls, thirty- six miles east of Grand Forks; thence southeast and south, to the east end of Maple lake; thence southwesterly along this lake, and from it south to the Sand Hill river; thence southeasterly to the White Harth Agency; thence southerly, by Detroit and Pelican Rapids, to Fergus Falls, which is situated half-way from the north to the south line of the state; thence southeasterly, in a less direct and regular course, through Douglas, Stearns, Meeker, McLeod and Sibley counties, to the Minnesota river, and along that stream to Mankato and South Bend; thence easterly by Janesville, Water- _ ville and Morristown, to Faribault; thence northerly, turning back- ward, to Minneapolis and Anoka, the loop thus formed, enclosing Wright, Carver, Scott, Le Sueur, and parts of adjacent counties, being the boundary of the area well known as the Big Woods; thence easterly, passing through Ramsey and Washington counties to Stillwater and Hudson, where it enters Wisconsin. The Big Woods are principally made up of the following species of trees, arranged by Prof. Winchell in the estimated order of their abundance: white or American elm, basswood, sugar maple, black and bur oaks, butternut, slippery or red elm, soft or silver maple, bitternut, white and black ash, iron-wood, wild plum, June-berry, American crab-apple, common poplar or aspen, large-toothed pop- lar, tamarack (in swamps), box-elder, black cherry, cotton wood (beside rivers and lakes), water beech, willows, hackberry, paper or canoe birch, yellow birch, white oak, an red cedar. Farther north- ward white, red and jack pines, black and white spruce, balsam fir and arbor-vitz are conspicuous in the forest, intermingled with deciduous trees. Its shrubs include prickly ash, smooth sumach, frost grape, Virginian creeper, climbing bitter-sweet, red and black raspberries, choke-berry, prickly and smooth gooseberries, black currant, and species of cornel, wolfberry, honeysuckle, elder, vibur- num, and hazel-nut. 14 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. The most abundant species of grass found upon the prairies of southwestern Minnesota, are as follows: beard-grass (Andropogon furcatus, Muhl.), commonly here called “blue-joint,’ Indian grass (Chrysopogon nutans, Benth.), muskit-grass (Bouteloua racemosa, Lagasca), and porcupine grass (Stipa spartea, Trin.), common on land neither very dry nor very moist; another species of beard-grass (Andropogon scoparius, Michx.), and a second muskit-grass (Boute- loua hirsuta, Lagasca), common on dry swells; the fresh-water cord-grass (Spartina cynosuroides, Willd.), in sloughs, making the principal mass of their hay; and rice cut-grass (Leersia oryzoides, Swartz), with the last. The prairies also bear a great variety of flowers, including numerous species of aster, golden-rod, sunflower, blazing-star or button snakeroot, and prairie clover, and the rose, lily, harebell, phlox, gerardia, fringed gentian, and many others. Sometimes the view across miles of the prairie is made yellow and purple by the multitude of sunflowers, blazing-stars, and gerardias. — Limits OF SPECIES. ; Gradual changes in the flora are observable in crossing the con- tinent either from east to west or from north to south. Many species disappear as the traveler advances, while others, not before present, are met with. A large majority of the plants in the Pacific states are not found east of the Mississippi; and such limitation prevails almost without exceptions between the arctic and tropical zones. The central position of Minnesota therefore makes this a most interesting field for the notation of the limits of species. Among our forest trees, the white and red pine, arbor-vite (‘white cedar”), yellow birch, black ash and sugar maple reach their western limit at the east side of the Red river valley. No tree of exclusively western range extends east into Minne- © sota, and the only shrubs thus noted are Elzagnus argentea (silver- berry), Ginothera albicaulis and Amorpha microphylla; but about fifty herbaceous plants belonging to the flora of the western plains and the Rocky mountains, and not yet known to occur east of the Mississippi river, are found within our limits. These include spe- cies of Ranunculus, Aquilegia, Vesicaria, Linum, Astragalus, Oxy- tropis, Potentilla, Gaura, Peucedanum, Cymopterus, Gutierrezia, Aplopappus, Grindelia, Lepachys, Helianthus, Gaillardia, Senecio, Troximon, Plantago, Pentstemon, Orthocarpus, Echinospermum, Collomia, Gentiana, Asclepias, Sueeda, Comandra, Euphorbia, Alli- um, Carex, Sporobolus, Aristida, Buchloe, Elymus, and Beck- mannia. STATE GEOLOGIST, | 15 A group of species, most notably represented in the pine and heath families, including our three pines, black spruce, balsam fir, tamarack and arbor-vite, huckleberry, blueberry, cranberry, snow- berry, aromatic wintergreen or checkerberry, Labrador tea, and the clintonia and dwarf cornel, extends through the northeast part of the state to limits approximately coinciding with the Mississippi river, Red lake and the lake of the Woods. The northern Jimits of yellow birch, bur oak, sugar maple and basswood here coincide nearly with the international boundary. The red cedar, cottonwood, hornbeam, white, black and red oaks, _ butternut, bitter-nut or swamp hickory, hackberry, box-elder, frost erape and prickly ash reach their general northern limits in the north half of this state; but several of them, like many herbaceous species of similar range, continue somewhat farther northwestward into Manitoba. The shell-bark hickory, black walnut, red mul- berry and Kentucky coffee-tree attain their most northern range in the south half of the state. The accompanying map shows the portions of Minnesota re- spectively occupied by forest and prairie, and the approximate limits of many of our trees.* INTRODUCED PLANTS. About eight per cent. of the plants growing without cultivation in this state are introduced species, distinguished in the catalogue by being printed in Italics. Most of them are such as follow civilized man, and grow in his cultivated fields and gardens, in spite of all efforts to banish them. Among the most notable in- troduced weeds in this state may be mentioned mustard, cow-herb and ceckle, specially troublesome in wheat-fields; shepherd’s purse, purslane, mallow, May-weed, burdock, mullein, pigweeds, tumble- weed, black bindweed, curled or yellow dock, sheep sorrel, hemp, barnyard-grass, and foxtail or pigeon-grass, frequently too -plenti- ful in cultivated ground, about dwellings, by the road-side, or on pasture-land. The ox-eye daisy or white-weed, Canada thistle and cheat or chess are sparingly established, and may become very com- mon bad weeds here, as farther east. It shculd be added that, be- sides these immigrants, a considerable number of weeds native to this country are also common, including species of Lepidium, Iva, Ambrosia, Helianthus and Stachys. Up to the present time, only *Its method of delineation is similar to that of Dr. Robert Bell’s map, recently published by the Geological Survey of Canada, showing the general northern limits of the principal forest trees of Canada. 16 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. about half as many naturalized and adventive species are known in Minnesota as in the eastern states, the difference being due to the shorter time since the settlement of this state and the proportion- ately less numerous opportunities for them to gain a foot-hold here. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE CATALOGUE. Under each species is a statement whether itis abundant, com- mon, frequent, infrequent, or rare, and whether its geographic range extends throughout the state or to limits which are indicated ap- proximately; or, when the observations are insufficient for such statement, the localities where the species has been noted are men- tioned, with the names of the observers. ’ The arrangement of families, genera and species strictly follows the fifth edition of Gray’s Manual; and wherever asynonym replaces any name that occurs in the Manual, the latter also is given, en- closed by marks of parenthesis.* The popular names are mostly such as appear in Gray’s Manual and Wood’s Class-Book; but in a few instances other names, in general use in this state, and often specially significant, are inserted. Introduced species are distinguished from the indigenous, as before mentioned, by being Italicized. For the species of our flora that are not described in Gray’s Manual, which only included those found east of the Mississippi, descriptions are quoted from other authorities. The present work thus supplies, with Gray’s Manual, the means of identifying all the flowering plants and ferns known to occur in Minnesota. Determinations of numerous difficult species, and notes con- cerning them, have been kindly supplied by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. Sereno Watson, Mr. William Boott, Dr. George Engelmann, Mr. M.S. Bebb, Rev. T. Morong, and other specialists; and I am in- debted to Dr. George Vasey for the description of the new Aristida basiramea, Engelmann, posthumously published. * The sources of improved nomenclature have been Watson’s Bibliographical Index to North American Botany (Part IL; Polypetalz : 1878); Gray’s Synoptical Flora of North America (Vol. Il, Part I; Gamopetale after Composit : 1878); various papers by Professor Gray 1n the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Bailey’s Catalogue of North American Carices (1884); Vasey’s Grasses of the United States (1883); Eaton’s Ferns of North America (1880); and notes in the American’ Naturalist, the Botanical Gazette, and the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. +Chiefly from Watson’s report on the Botany of King’s Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel; Porter and Coulter’s Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado; Rothrock’s report on the Botany of Wheeler’s Surveys west of the One Hundredth Meridian ; Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North America; and Gray’s Synoptical Flora. River “lake of the Woods, Dawson. Frequent. R. Cymbalaria, Pursh. Sea-side Crowfoot. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting southeastward. Grand Por- tage, lake Superior, also at New Ulm (common), Juni; Little Rock, upper Minnesota river, Parry; Nicollet county, Aiton; Stearns county, and the Red river valley (com- mon), Upham; Fergus Falls, Leonard; Worthingtoa (common), Foote. STATE GEOLOGIST. 19 Ri. affinis, R. Br.* Rough-fruited Crowfoot. Lake of the Woods, Dawson. Northwest. R. affinis, R. Br., var. cardiophyllus, Gray. In the Red river valley at Pembina, Chickering. West. KR. rhomboideus, Goldie. Rhomboid-leaved Crowfoot. Dwarf But- tercup. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. R. abortivus, L. Small-flowered Crowfoot. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. KR. abortivus, L., var. micranthus, Gray. Minneapolis, Winchell; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Infrequent. R. sceleratus, L. Cursed Crowfoot. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. R. recurvatus, Poir. Hooked Crowfoot. Frequent throughout the state ; reaching its northwestern limit at the lake of the Woods, Macoun. RR. Pennsylvanicus, L. Bristly Crowfoot. Common throughout the state. RK. fascicularis, Muhl. Early Crowfoot. Frequent, or common, throughout the south half of the state; infrequent north- ward, R. repens, L. Creeping Crowfoot. Abundant throughout the state. R. repens, L., var. hispidus, Torr. & Gray.t (R. hispidus, Michx.) Red river valley near Saint Vincent (in aswamp), Dawson; common trom Manitoba westward, Macoun. R, bulbosus, L. Bulbous Crowfoot or Buttercups. Northfield, Chaney; Minneapolis, Mrs. Terry. Rare. R. acris, L. Tall Crowfoot or Buttercups. Infrequent, but noted at many places, as Lake City, Faribault, Northfield, Minne- apolis, Northern Pacific Junction, Carlton county, and on the upper Mississippi river. “Becoming common ‘inthe eastern part of Manitoba,” Zacoun. *RANUNCULUS AFFINIS, R. Br, Radical leaves petioled, usually pedately multifid ; cauline ones subsessile, digitate, with broadly linear lobes ; stem erect, few-flowered ; earpels with recurved beaks, in oblong cylindrical heads; more or less pubescent throughout. Watson’s Rep. in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel, +R. AFFINIS, R. Br., var. CARDIOPHYLLUS, Gray. Hirsutely pubescent, radical leaves round-cordate, undivided or many-cleft ; cauline ones palmately many-cleft ; flower 1inchin diameter. Porter and Coulter’s Flora of Colorado. {RANUNCULUS REPENS, L., var. HISPIDUS, Torr. & Gray. Stem erect, 1% to 2 feet high, branching and, with the petioles, very pilose with spreading hairs; leaves trifol- iate ; leaflets distinctly petiolulate, oval, acute, laciniate ; pedicels with the pubescence appressed ; flowers aslarge as in R. acris; calyx appressed ; carpels smooth, pointed with a-very short style. Torrey and Gray’s Flora of N. A., vol. i, pp. 22 and 658, 20 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ISOPYRUM, L. IsOPYRUM. I. biternatum, Torr. & Gray. False Rue-Anemone. Frequent, or common, throughout the south half of the state; extending north at least to Fergus Falls, Leonard CALTHA, L. MarsH MARIGOLD. ©. palustris, L. Marsh Marigold. ‘‘Cowslip.”’ Abundant, or common, throughout most of the state ; less frequent westward. COPTIS, Salish, GOLDTHREAD. C. trifolia,Salisb. | Three-leaved Goldthread. Common northward; extending south to Minneapolis, Roberts, and Lake City (rare), Miss Manning. AQUILEGIA, Tourn. CoLUMBINE, A. Canadensis, L. Wild Columbine. ‘‘ Honeysuckle.’’ Common, or frequent, throughout the state. Found, according to Miss Babbitt, with white flowers during several years in the south edge of the village of Little Falls, Morrison county, not associated at that local- ity with the usual type ; also some with flowers clear white, others cream-colored, and yet others of the ordinary kind, all growing together west of the Mississippi river, op- posite to Little Falls, and likewise near Fort Ripley, in the same county. A. brevistyla, Hook.* Short-styled Columbine. In the Red river valley at Pembina, Chickering. West. DELPHINIUM, Tourn. LaiRKSPuR. D, exaltatum, Ait. Tall Larkspur. Frequent through the south half of the state ; extending north to the upper Missis- sippi river, Garrison, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. D. tricorne, Michx. Dwarf Larkspur. St. Paul, Miss Cathcart; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Tnfrequent. South. D. azureum, Michx. Azure Larkspur. Common southward ; extending north to the upper Mississippiriver, Garrison, and Manitoba, Macoun. ° D. Consolida, L. Field Larkspur. Rarely adventive. Minneapolis, A. W. Jones. HYDRASTIS, L. Oraneer-noor. H. Canadensis, L. Orange-root. Yellow Puccoon. Stearns county, Garrison, Rare. Southeast. ‘ *AQUILEGIA BREVISTYLA, Hook. Stems low, 6 to 8 inches high, spreading ; leaves bi-teruate; leaflets 3-lobed, crenate, 6 to 9 lines [twelfths of an inch] long, crenatures ovate, rotund ; flowerssmall, blue, about 6 lines long, including the spur ; sepals oblong. ovate; petals a little exceeding the stamens ; spurs hooked at the tip; styles shorter, included. Porter and Coulter’s Flora of Colorado. STATE GEOLOGIST. 21 ACTAKA, L. BANEBERRY. A, spicata, L., var. rubra, Ait. Red Baneberry. Common through the wooded portions of the state. AY alba, Bigelow. White Baneberry. Common, with same extent as the last. Berries frequently borne on slender, green pedicels. NIGELLA, L. FENNEL-FLOWER. N. Damascena, .* Fennel-flower. Escaped from cultivation, Mankato, Leiberg. MENISPERMACE. MoonsrEep FAmItny. MENISPERMUM,L. MoonsEep. M. Canadense, L. Canadian Moonseed. Frequent, often common, southward; extending north to Todd county and the northwest side of Mille Lacs, Upham; also in the Red river valley near Saint Vincent, Dawson, Havard. (Its long, slender, bitter, yellow root is used by the Sioux as a medi- eine, being called Pejuta zizi; and from this came the name Pejuta zizi, or Yellow Medicine river. T.M. Young.) BERBERIDACEA. BARBERRY FAMILY. BERBERIS, L. BARBERRY. B. vulgaris, L. Common Barberry. Spontaneous in old fields, Mankato, Leiberg. CAULOPHYLLUM, Michx. BiuE CoHosH. C. thalictroides, Michx. Blue Cohosh. Pappoose-root. Common, or frequent, excepting northeastward. PODOPHYLLUM, L. May-ApeLE. MaNnDRAKE. P. peltatum, L. May-Apple, Mandrake. Common southeastward, extending north to Goodhue and Rice counties. NYMPH AACE. Warer-Lity Faminy. BRASENTIA, Schreber. W ATER-SHIELD. B. peltata, Pursh. | Water-Shield. Rainy lake and lake of the Woods, Macoun; Pleasant lake, near Saint Cloud, *Nigella Damascena, L. Flowers bluish, rather large, surrounded and overtopped by a finely divided leafy involucre, like the other leaves ; succeeded by a smooth inflated 5-celled pod, in which the lining of the cells separates from the outer part. Gray's Field, Forest, and Garden Botany? 29 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ~ Campbell; Benton county, Upham; shallow lakes near St. Croix river, Parry; White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Simmons; Minneapolis, Herrick; Excelsior, Mrs. Terry; Fergus Falls, Leonard. Infrequent. NELUMBIUM, Juss. NELUMBO. SACRED BEAN. N. luteum, Willd. Yellow Nelumbo. Water Chinquapin. ‘‘ Rattle-box.” Upper Mississippi river, Houghton; lake Minnetonka (north end of Halsted’s bay), Roberts; Mendota, Mrs. Terry; Mississippi river at Red Wing. Sandberg, near Dres- bach, Winona county, Winchell, and at La Crosse, Swezey. Rare. NYMPHAEA, Tourn. Water-Nympo. Warter-Liny. N. odorata, Ait. Sweet-scented Water-Lily. Plentifulin lakes along the international boundary northwest of lake Superior, Winchell, Abundant throughout Quebec and Ontario and extending westward to the lake of the Woods, Macoun. This species probably occurs also in central and southern Minnesota, in company withthe following. Mr. Leiberg reports the examination of a great number of Nymphea rootstalks, none of them bearing tubers, at Lake Crystal, Blue Earth county. N. odorata, Ait., var. minor, Sims. Smaller Sweet-scented Water- Lily. Turtle lake, Otter Tail county (flowers only one and a half inches broad), H. B. Ayres. Rare. N. tuberosa, Paine. Tuber-bearing White Water-Lily. The white lilies common or frequent in ponds or lakes throughout the state, except- ing near its west side, which have been called Nymphza odorata, are believed to be- long instead, for the most part, to this species. ‘‘Flowers large and delicately beauti- ful, fragrant.” (Wheeler and Smith.) ‘* This isreally the water-lily of the Great lakes, as the true N. odorata seems to be confined to the northern waters, both lakes and rivers.’’ (Macoun.) NUPHAR, Smith. YELLOW Ponp-Lity. Sparrer-Dock. N. advena, Ait. Common Yellow Pond-Lily. Common throughout the state. N. luteum, Smith. Smaller Yellow Pond-Lily. In small lakes east of§the lake of the Woods, Macoun. N. pumilum, Smith. (N. luteum, Smith, var. pumilum, Gray.) Small Yellow Pond-Lily. Plentiful in Duluth harbor, Roberts; north shore of lake Superior, Agassiz; east shore of Rainy lake (rather rare), Macoun; Morrison county. Miss Babbitt. SARRACENIACEA. PrtcHER-PLAntT FAMILY. SARRACENTA, Tourn. SIDE-3ADDLE FLOWER. S. purpurea, L. Pitcher-Plant. Huntsman’s Cup. Common northward, extending south to Minneapolis, Roberts, Winchell; rare farther southeast. ° STATE GEOLOGIST. 93 PAPAVERACEA. Poppy FAmILy. PAPAVER, L. Poppy. P. somniferum, L. Common Poppy. Opium Poppy. Adventive in old gardens, Mankato, Leiberg. SANGUINARIA, Dill. BLOOD-ROOT. S. Canadensis, L. Blood-root. Common, or abundant, throughout most of the state; less frequent westward, as at Fergus Falls, Leonard, and Pembina, Havard; rare north of lake Superior, Clark. FUMARIACE. Fumitory FAMIty. DICENTRA, Bork. DICENTRA. D. Cucullaria, DC. Dutchman’s Breeches. Common southward ; extending north at least to Stillwater, Anoka and Stearns counties, and Fergus Falls. D. Canadensis, DC. Squirrel Corn. Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Minneapolis, Twining; Faribault, Miss Beane; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. CORYDALIS, Vent. CoRYDALIS. C. glauca, Pursh. Pale Corydalis. Common north of lake Superior, Roberts; extending south to Stearns and Benton counties, Upham, and to the falls of the St. Croix river, Parry, Miss Field. €. flavula, DC. Yellow Corydalis. Thomson, Duluth and Taylor’s Falls, Miss Cathcart; upper Mississippi river, Gar- rison; Red river valley, Gedge; Blue Earth county, Upham. C. aurea, Willd. Golden Corydalis. Common, or frequent, through the north half of the state ; lessfrequent southward, €. aurea, Willd., var. micrantha, Engelm. Martin county, Minnesota, and Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. FUMARIA, L. FUMITORY. £, officinalis, L. Common Fumitory. Adventive, Winona, Holzinger. CRUCIFERA. Mustrarp F amity. NASTURTIUM, R. Br. W ATER-CREss. N. officinale, R. Br. True Water-Cress. Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; New Ulm, Juni; cold springs, Kasota, Leiberg; Tuttle’s creek, Minneapolis, Kassube; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. infrequent. 24 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. N. sinuatum, Nutt. Water-Cress. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; New Ulm, Juni; Pipestone county, Leiberg; lower Minnesota river, Parry; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. N. sessiliflorum, Nutt. Water-Cress. Lapham. Winona county, Holzinger. South. N. palustre, DC. Marsh Cress. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. N. palustre, DC., var. hispidum, Fisch. & Mey. Redwood Falls, Pemberton. Perhaps the prevailing form of the speciesin this state. N. lacustre, Gray. _ Lake Cress. Lapham. Southeast. N. Armoracia, Fries. Horse-radish. Adventive, Mankato, Leiberg; Northfield, Chaney. DENTARIA, L. TooTHwort. PEPPER-ROOT. D. diphylla, Michx, Two-leaved Pepper-roat. Freeborn and Blue Earth counties, Upham; lake Superior, Whitney. East. D. laciniata, Muh). Toothwort. Frequent southeastward ; extending northwest to Saint Paul, Miss Catheart, Mar- tin county, Cratty, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. CARDAMINE, L. BITTER CREss. C, rhomboidea, DC. Spring Cress. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. C. pratensis, L. Cuckoo Flower. Lake Superior to the sources of the Mississippi, Houghton. North. C. hirsuta, L. Small Bitter Oress. Common through the north half of the state ; less frequent or rare southward. Glabrous specimens are sent by Mr. Cratty from Emmet county, lowa. ‘A peculiar form grows on the height of land west of lake Superior, which seems to connect the species with the following variety,” Macoun. C. hirsuta, L., var. sylvatica, Gray. Lake Minnetonka, Roberts, Herrick; Martin county (in woods), Cratty, determin- ed by Watson. . ARABIS, L. Rock Cress. A. lyrata, L. Rock Cress. Common, or frequent, through the north half of the state ; extending thus south to Red Wing (common), Sandberg, and Winona, Holzinger; wanting southwestward. A. dentata, Torr. & Gray. Rock Cress. Woods, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county (plentiful), Cratty. South. A. hirsuta, Scop. Haury Rock Cress. Frequent throughout the state. STATE GEOLOGIST. 25 A. levigata, Poir. Smooth Rock Cress. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Minneapolis, Twining, Roberts; Isanti and Sherburne counties, Upham; Stearns county, Garrison, lake Su- perior, Whitney. A. Canadensis, L. Sickle-pod. Frequent through the south half of the state; extending north to the upper Mis- sissippi river, Garrison. A. perfoliata, Lam. Tower Mustard. Poplar river, lake Superior, Juni; upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Stearns county, Campbell; Blue Earth county, Leiberg ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. A. Drummondii, Gray. Drumniond’s Tower Mustard. Frequent, often common, throughout the state. THELYPOD:iUM, Endl. Rock Cress. T. pinnatifidum, Watson. (Arabis hesperidoides, Gray). Rock Cress. Northfield, Chaney. South. BARBAREA, R. Br. WINTER CREss. B. vulgaris, R. Br., var. stricta, Regel. Winter Cress. Yellow Rocket. Put in bay, lake Superior, Juni; upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Minneapolis, Roberts. ERYSIMUM, L. TrEACLE Mustarp. EK. cheiranthoides, L. Worm-seed Mustard. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. E. asperum, DC.* Prairie Rocket, Western Wall-flower. Abundant at Walhalla, Dakota, thirty miles west of the Red river, Scott; ‘a very prominent object on dry, gravelly soil throughout the prairie region” of Manitoba, Macoun, and ranging thence south to Mexico; doubtless extending sparingly into the west edge of Minnesota; also found by Rev. J. Pemberton at Redwood Falls, and by Dr. Sandberg on the limestone bluff of Belle creek opposite to the mill in Vasa, Good- hue county, occurring (like Vesicaria Ludoviciana in the same county) far east from its general limit. E. parviflorum, Nutt.+ Small-flowered Prairie Rocket. Red river valley, Dawson, Scott; Minneapolis (beside railroad a mile southeast from the university : determined by Mr. Watson as this species ; having light yellow “petals but half longer than the (8 to 4 lines long) sepals”’ ; yet much branched near the base, numerous stems of nearly equal hight (1 to 1% feet) being thus sent up from a single root ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, mostly entire; pods about 1% inches long, beaked with a stout style, erect on short pedicels), Upham. West. *ERYSIMUM ASPERUM, DC. Biennial, canescent with short appressed hairs : stems solitary and simple, rarely branched above, 1 to 3feet high, or less ; leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate ; the cauline linear to linear-lanceolate, entire or sparingly repand with short acute teeth, 1 to 3 inches long: sepals narrow, 4 to 6 lines long, strongly gibbous : petals 8 to 12 lines long, light yellow to deep orange or purple: pods 1 fo 4inches long, a line wide, beaked with a stout style, ascending on stout spreading pedicels 3 lines long. Brewer and Watson’s Botany of California. {See description of ERYSIMUM PARVIFLORUM, Nutt., on next page. 26 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. SISYMBRIUM, L. Hepce Mustarp. S. officinale, Scop. Hedge Mustard. A common or frequent weed through the south half of the state. S. Thaliana, Gay. Mouse-ear Cress. Minneapolis, Winchell, Miss Butler. Rare. S. canescens, Nutt. Tansy Mustard. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. S. canescens, Nutt., var. brachyecarpum, Torr. & Gray.* Red river yalley, Dawson. North. BRASSICA, Tourn. MustTarpD. B. Sinapistrum, Boiss. Charlock. Field Mustard, A common or frequent weed in grain-fields throughout the state ; so troublesome in the Red river valley and southwestward that farmers allowing it to go to seed are subjected to a penalty by law. B. alba, Gray. White Mustard. Lake City, Miss Manning; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Blue Earth county, Lei- berg; Stearns county, Garrison. Rare. B. nigra, Koch. Black Mustard. A common or frequent weed through the south half of the state. B. campestris, L.t Kale. Common in fields in Manitobaand around Winnipeg, Macouwn; doubtless also in the Red river valley in this state. DRABA, L. WHITLOW-GRaASS. D, arabisans, Michx. Whitlow-Grass. North shore of lake Superior, Juni, Infrequent. North. D. nemorosa, L., var. hebecarpa, Lindb. (D. nemoralis, Ehrh.) About Rainy lake, Drummond (Macoun). North. ERYSIMUM PARVIFLORUM, Nutt. (E. lanceolatum, Hook.) Canescently scabrous with an appressed 2-parted pubescence; stem low (about a foot high) and nearly simple; leaves remarkably narrow, all linear or somewhat lanceolate, almost wholly entire, densely clustered at the base of the stem; siliques long, erect ; stigma emargin-— ate ; flowers small, sulphur yellow; claws of the petals longer than the calyx. Distin- guished from E. cheiranthoides by its more pubescent leaves, [longer] siliques and larger flowers. Torrey and Gray’s Flora of N. A. *SISYMBRIUM CANESCENS, Nutt., var. BRACHYCARPUM, Torr. & Gray. Lobes of the leaves somewhat acute, and, with the stem, furnished with minute stipitate glands ; petals rather longer than the calyx ; siliques scarcely attenuate at the base, somewhat longer than the pedicels. Torrey and Gray’: Flora of N. A. +Brassica campestris, L. Annual weed in cultivated fields and waste places; stem 1% to 3 feet high, with a few scattered, reversed hairs below; leaves somewhat fleshy and glaucous, lower lyrate-dentate, subciliate, 3to7 inches long, one-third as wide, the upper ones smaller, entire with rounded clasping lobes at base, tapering to an obtuse point ; raceme 1 to 2 feet long ; sepals erect, spreading ; corolla yellow, 4 to5 lines in diameter ; siliques 1% inches long, with the style 4% inch; seeds small, dark brown, Wood’s Class- Book. ‘ STATE GEOLOGIST. 27 ® ‘ D. nemorosa, L., var. leiocarpa, Lindb,* (D. lutea, Gilib. [DC.]) Stearns county, Campbell; near Glyndon, Gedge; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Rare. North and west. D. Caroliniana, Walt. Whitlow-Grass. Frequent southward, extending north to Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell, and west to Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. D. Caroliniana, Walt., var. micrantha, Gray. Common in Lowa, Arthur ; doubtless occurring also in Minnesota. D. verna, L. Whitlow-Grass. Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart. Rare. south. ALYSSUM, Tourn. ALYSSUM. _A, calycinum, L. Alyssum. Minneapolis, Juni, Roberts; Lake City, Miss Manning; Nicollet county, Aiton. Infrequent. VESICARIA, Tourn. BLADDER-POD. V. Ludoviciana, DC.t Bladder-pod. Red river valley, Scott, determined by Watson ; also, Mississippi river bluffs, Red Wing, Sandberg. West. CAMELINA, Crantz. FansE Fruax. C, sativa, Crantz.. False Flax. Minneapolis, Juni; along railways, Blue Earth county (introduced in flax-seed), Lei- berg; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett; Red river valley, Dawson. Infrequent. SUBULARIA, L. AWLWORT. S. aquatica, L. Awlwort. Found in about three feet of water, on sandy bottom in Vermilion bay, on Eagle lake, Canadian Pacific railway, Manitoba, near Rainylake ; abundant both in flower and fruit, Sept 13, 1882, Fletcher, Macoun. This rare species probably also occurs, and should be looked for, in northern Minnesota. CAPSELLA, Vent SHEPHERD’s PuRsE. C. Bursa-pastoris, Mcench. Shepherd’s Purse. A very abundant weed throughout the state. *DRABA NEMOROSA, L., var. LEIOCARPA, Lindb. Pubescent; stem branching, leafy, 6 to 15 inches high, very slender, sometimes branching fromthe base ; pubescence simple or forked; leaves oval, cauline ones lanceolate, toothed ; flowers very small, yellow ; petals about twice as long as the calyx ; style none; silicles oblong-elliptical, rather obtuse, glabrous, about 4 lines long, one-third to one-half the length of the slender spreading pediceis. Porter and Coulter’s Flora of Colorado. +VESICARIA LUDOVICIANA, DC. Canescent with a stellate pubescence ; stem6 to 8 inches high, simple, or somewhat branehed above; radical leaves spatulate, entire, obtuse, cauline linear: flowers golden yellow; petalsobovate; style slender, longer than the ovary and nearly as long as the obovate, globose, hairysilicle. Porter and Coulter’s Flora of Colorado. 98 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. . j ° THLASPYI, Tourn. PENNYCRESS. T, arvense, L. Field Pennycress. Mithridate Mustard. Lapham. Pembina, Havard. “Abundant on the Red river near the older set- tlements” [in Manitoba]; ‘not yet common as far south as the forty-ninth parallel, but rapidly spreading. A most noxious weed.’’ Dawson. LEPIDIUM, L. PEPPERWORT, PEPPERGRASS. L. Virginicum, L. Wild Peppergrass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting perhaps northward. L. intermedium, Gray. Wild Peppergrass. Abundant (petals usually wanting) throughout the state. Both species are native weeds. CAKILE, Tourn. Sra-Rocker. C. Americana, Nutt. American Sea-Rocket. “Abundant onthe sandy south shore” of lake Superior, Whitney; at Thunder bay, Macoun; doubtless aiso on the shore of lake Superior in Minnesota. CAPPARIDACEA. CAPER FAMILY. POLANISIA, Raf. PoLANISIA. P. graveolens, Raf. Heavy-scented Polanisia. Common through the south half of the state, extending north atleast to Douglas county, Mrs. Terry; probably also in the Red river valley, (Two varieties are com- mon at Minneapolis, one bearing yellowish, and the other pinkish flowers. Herrick.) CLEOME, L. CLEOME. SPIDER FLOWER. C. integrifolia, Torr. & Gray.* Cleome. Spider Flower. Mankato, Upham, Leiberg. An immigrant from the plains west of Minnesota. Southwest. VIOLACEAI. VioteT FaAmity. VIOLA, L. VIOLET. V. rotundifolia, Michx. Round-leaved Violet. North of lake Superior (common), Roberts; upper Mississippi river, Garrison; extending south to Minneapolis, Griswold, and Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart. *CLEOME, L. Sepals distinct or somewhat united. Stamens 6 or rarely 4. Torus minute. Pod linear or oblong, subsessile or stipitate. Annual herbs, or shrubs, with digitate or simple leaves and racemed or solitary flowers. Benth. & Hook. CLEOME INTEGRIFOLTIA, Torr. & Gray. Annual, somewhat glaucous, 2to3 feet high, widely branching ; leaves3-foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate (the lowermost oblong), entire, submucronate ; racemes sometimes nearly 1 foot long; flowers large, showy, reddish purple, rarely white ; sepals united to the middle, persistent ; segments triangular- acuminate ; petals with very short claws; stamens equal; pods oblong-linear, com- pressed, much longer than the stipe, Porter and Coulter's Flora of Colorado. , STATE GEOLOGIST. 99 V. lanceolata, L. Lance-leaved Violet. Near Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry. Rare. South. V. primulzefolia, L. Primrose-leaved Violet. Near Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Rare. South. V. blanda, Willd. Sweet White Violet. Frequent throughout the state. V. renifolia, Gray.* Kidney-leaved Violet. Abundant in cedar swamps and mossy woods from northern New England through Canada and Manitoba to British Columbia, Macoun; doubtlessin northern Minnesota. WV. Selkirkii, Pursh. Selkirk’s Violet. Great-spurred Violet. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison. Rare... North. V. cucullata, Ait. Common Blue Violet. Common, often abundant, throughout the state. V. cucullata, Ait., var. palmata, Gray. Hand-leaf Violet. Lake Pepin, Mise Manning ; Minneapolis, Herrick, Griswold; Worthington (com- mon), Foote. V. cucullata, Ait., var, cordata, Gray. Near Minneapolis, Mrs. Terry; Nicollet county, Aiton. V. sagittata, Ait. Arrow-leaved Violet. Frequent southeastward ; extending north to Minneapolis, Roberts, Marine Mills, Washington county, Mise Field, and Anoka county, Juni; and northwest to Fergus Falls, Leonard. V. delphinifolia, Nutt. Larkspur Violet. Frequent, often common, through the south half of the state ; extending north to Morrison county, Upham, and along the Red river valley. V. pedata, L. Bird-foot Violet. Abundant, er common, through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley. V. canina, L., var. sylvestris, Regel. Dog Violet. Frequent, but not common, throughout most of the state; rare southward. YV. striata, Ait. Pale Violet. Hennepin county, Herrick; Alexandria, Mrs. Terry. Infrequent. -V. Canadensis, L. Canada Violet. Frequent northward, and found more rarely throughout the south half of the state; extending southwestto Martin county (very scarce), Cratty, and Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Flowers light pink. V. pubeseens, Ait. Downy Yellow Violet. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. V. pubescens, Ait., var. eriocarpa, Nutt. Frequent in the vicinity of Hesper, lowa, at the southern boundary of Minnesota, adjacent to Houston and Fillmore counties, Mrs. Carter. _V. tricolor, L. Pansy. Heart's Ease. Rarely adventive, Stearns county, Garrison. *VIOLA RENIFOLIA, Gray. Rootstock and flowers as in V. blanda, or somewhat larger ; leaves reniform (when fully grown usually two inches wide), on both sides, as also the petiole, villous-pubescent ; scape pubescent. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, 1870. 30 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. CISTACEA. Rock-rRosE FAMILY. HELIANTHEMUM, Tourn. ROcK-ROSE. H. Canadense, Michx. Frost—weed. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting near its west side and far northward ; extending north to the upper Mississippi river, Garrison, and Fort Fran- cis, Rainy river, Macoun. HUDSONTIA, L. Hupsontia. H. tomentosa, Nutt. Downy Hudsonia. Fifteen-mile point, Rainy lake, and Hungry Hall, entrance to the lake of the Woods, Macoun; Minnesota point, near Duluth, and on sand dunes in Anoka county, Roberts; on sand hills in section 21, Orrock, Sherburne county (plentiful, with short- peduncled flowers and narrow leaves), Upham; near Rockford, Wright county, Hatch; barren ridges of the St. Croix, Parry; Castle Rock, Dakota county, Geyer; White Rock, Goodhue county, Sandberg; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Local. LECHEA, L. PINWEED. L. minor, Walt. Small Pinweed. Sturgeon lake (near the international boundary east of Rainy lake), Macoun; up- per Mississippi, Houghton; St. Croix river, Parry; Steele county, Upham. DROSERACE. SUNDEW FAMILY. DROSERA, L. SUNDEW. D. rotundifolia, L. Round-leaved Sundew. Common, or frequent, northward ; extending south to Minneapolis, Roberts. D. intermedia, Dreyv. and Hayne, var. Americana, DC. ( D. longifolia, in Manual.) Long-leaved Sundew. Similar in range with the last, but less frequent. North shore of Jake Superior at Little Marais, Juni; between the lake of the Woods and Red river (common), Dawson; extending south to sections 17 and 19, Ham Lake, Anoka county (with the leaves scat- tered along the stem or caudex), Roberts. D. linearis, Goldie. Slender Sundew. Lake Superior to Roseauriver, Burgess, Macoun; extending south to Hennepin county (frequent), Roberts. HYPERICACEA. St. JoHn’s-wort FAmiILy. HYPERICUM, L. St. JoHN’S-WORT. H. pyramidatum, Ait. Great St. John’s: wort. Rare or local northward, but frequent southward ; extending north to Todd county, Upham, the upper Mississippiand Minnesota rivers, Parry, and northwest to the plains of the Saskatchewan, Bourgeau, Macoun. [H. Kalmianum, L., probably occurs on the north shore of lake Superior in this state.] STATE GEOLOGIST. al H, prolificum, L. Shrubby St. John’s-wort. Vasa, Goodhue county, Sandberg. Southeast. H. ellipticum, Hook. St. John’s-wort. Lapham. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison. {Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer.} Infrequent, North. |H. perforatum, I., may be expecteau as a weed southeastward.] H. corymbosum, Muhl. St. John’s-wort. Lapham. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Hesper, lowa, adjacent to the south line of Houston and Fillmore counties, Mrs. Carter. Rare. H. mutilum, L. Slender St. John’s-wort, Throughout the state ;: common northward, less frequent southward. H. mutilum, L.. var. gymnanthum, Gray. Minneapolis, Roberts. H. Canadense, L. Canadian St. John’s-wort. St. Croix river, Parry; Stearns county, Campbell; Sibley county, Leonard; Martin county (rare), Cratty. H. Canadense, L., var. major, Gray. Lake Superior, Robbins, and in Iowa, Arthur; doubtless also in Minnesota. ELODES, Adans. Mars Sr. JoHNn’s- WORT. E. Virginica, Nutt. Marsh St. John’s-wort. Throughout the state ; common northward, frequent southwara. CARYOPHYLLACEA. Pink Fatty. SAPONARIA, L. SoAPWORT. S. officinalis, L. Common Soapwort. Bouncing Bet. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Lake City, Miss Manning; Wabasha, Gibson. S. Vaccaria, Li. (Vaccaria vulgaris, Host.) Cow- Herb. Seldom plentiful, but reported at many places throughout the state. Mr. Leiberg writes: ‘This is becoming a common weed in the grain-fields of Blue Earth county, where the farmers call it ‘cockle’, and complain very much of it. It will doubtless be- come as plentiful as the true cockle (Lychnis Githago). Most of the seeds are just small enough to pass through a wheat-screen, and they can thus be separated ; but, as the largest seeds will be left in whenever the grain is cieaned, the result will be that in time, through this process of selection, the seeds can no more be cleaned out of the wheat than true cockle.” SILENE, L. CATCHFLY. CAMPION. S. stellata, Ait. Starry Campion. Common through the south part of the state ; extending north at least to Minne- apolis, Herrick, and Redwood Falls, Miss Butler. S. nivea, DC. Campion. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Hesper, Iowa, ad- joining Houston county, Mrs. Carter. Rare. Southeast. S. Virginica, L. Fire Pink. Catchfly. Nicollet county, Leiberg. Rare. Southeast. 32 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. S. antirrhina, L. Sleepy Catchfly. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. S. noctiflora, L. Night-flowering Catchfly. Frequent throughout the state. LYCHNIS, Tourn. LycHunis. COcKLE, L. vespertina, Sibth. Evening Lychnis. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube, Moulton. Rare. L. Githago, Tam. Corn Cockle. A common weed in wheat-fields throughout the state. ARENARIA, L. SANDWORT. A. serpyllifolia, L. Thyme-leaved Sandwort, Northfield, Chaney. Rare. A. Michauxii, Hook. (A. stricta, Michx.) Strict Sandwort. Rooting on detached rocks, head of lake St. Croix, Parry; lake of the Woods, Macoun. Rare. A. lateriflora, L. Showy Sandwort. Frequent throughout the state. STELLARIA, L. CHICKWEED. STARWORT. S. media, Smith. Common Chickweed. Frequent throughout the state. S. longifolia, Mubl. Long-leaved Stitchwort. Common throughout the state. S. longipes, Goldie. Long-stalked Stitchwort. Minneapolis, Griswold, Kasswbe; Anoka county and Duluth, Juni. [Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer.] North. S. crassifolia, Ebrh. Starwort. Cannon Falls, Goodhue county, Blake, Sandberg; Minneapolis (plentiful in ditches in swamps), Roberts, Upham; and northward. S. borealis, Bigelow. Northern Stitchwort. Starwort. Common, or frequent, in the north half of the state. [The var. alpestris, Gray, has been found on the north side of lake Superior, at Pie island, by Macoun.] CERASTIUM, L. Movusk-EAR CHICKWEED. C. viscosum, L. (C. vulgatum, L., in Manual.) Mouse-ear Chickweed, Winona county, Holzinger ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [Lake Superior, Whitney.) Infrequent. : C. vulgatum, L. (C. viscosum, L., in Manual.) Large Mouse-ear Chickweed. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting perhaps westward. C. nutans, Raf. . Nodding Mouse-ear Chickweed. Frequent, or common, throughout the state, excepting southwestward. C. oblongifolium, Torr. Mouse-ear Chickweed. Winona county, Holzinger; Fergus Falls, Leonard. Rare. Southeast. STATE GEOLOGIST. 30 C. arvense, I. Field Chickweed. Frequent, or common, through the north half of the state and southwestward ; rare southeastward. SAGINA, L. PeaRLWORT. S. nodosa, E. Meyer. Pearlwort. North shore of lake Superior, doubtless in Minnesota ; Isle Royale, Whitney; island of St. Ignace. Macoun. } PARON YCHIE AL. WaitItLow-wort F Amity. ANYCHIA, Michx, WHITLOW-wort. NatLworr. A. dichotoma, Michx. Forked Chickweed. Whitlow-wort. Lapham. Infrequent. FICOIDE A. Ick Prant Famizy. MOLLUGO, L. InpDIAN-CHICKWEED. M. verticillata, L. Carpet-weed. Common, or frequent, southward. Exposed rocks and sandy fields, St. Croix river, Parry; abundant in Hennepin county on sandy river-banks, appearing indigenous, Roherts. PORTULACACEA. PuRSLANE FAmMItLy. PORTULACA, Tourn. PURSLANE. P. oleracea. L. Common Purslane. ‘‘Pusley.” A very common garden weed. P, retusa, Engelm.* Western Purslane. Upper Minnesota river, Parry; Yellow Medicine county, Upham; upper Missis- sippi river, Garrison. (Surely indigenous ; yet possibly to be referred to the foregoing species.) West. TALINUM, Adans. TALINUM. T. teretifolium, Pursh. Talinum. Rare, occurring only on ledges of rock (trap, syenite, granite and quartzite): absent far northward. Taylor’s Falls(of St. Croix river), Houghton, Miss Field; Duluth, iss Catheart; Watab, Benton county, and at numerous places in Stearns and Morrison counties, Upham; upper Minnesota river, Parry; Redwood Falls, Miss Butler; ‘‘ plen- tiful on most of the ledges in Rock and Pipestone counties (a handsome little plant, extremely easy of cultivation), Leiberg. *PORTULACA RETUSA, Engelm. Like P. oleracea, L., but greener, and the stenr more ascending, sometimes covering a space several feet in diameter; leaves usually smaller than the common species; sepals obtuse, broadly carinate-winged; petals yellow ; stigmas 3 or 4; capsule 2% to 3 lines long, broader in proportion ; seeds more strongly tuberculate than in P. oleracea. Brewer and Watson's Botany of California: 3F 34 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. CLAYTONIA, L. Sprine-Bravry. C. Virginica, L. Narrow-leaved Spring-Beauty. Throughout the state, but rare in most portions ; frequent, or common, southeast- ward. c. Caroliniana, Michx. Wide-leaved Spring-Beauty. Lake City, Mrs. Ray. Southeast. MALVACEA. Matitow FamiIty. MALVA, L. Matiow. DM. rotundifolia, L. Common Mallow. Common southward, and as far north as Morrison and Todd counties, Upham; but not yet common westward. M. sylvestris, L. High Mallow. Fort Francis, Rainy river, Macoun; Minneapolis, Herrick; Goodhue county, Sand- ’ berg; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Blue Earth county, Leiberg.. M.crispa, lL. © Curled Mallow. Adventive, Lake City, Miss Manning. CALLIRRHOE, Nutt. CALLIRRHOE. C, triangulata, Gray, Callirrhoe. Lapham. South. NAP ABA, Clayt. GiLADE MaLiow. N. dioica, L. Glade Mallow. Lapham. Vasa, Goodhue county, Sandberg. Rare. Southeast, MALVASTRUM, Gray. FatsE Matnow. M. coccineum, Gray. Prairie Mallow. Minnesota, Gray’s Manual. West. Its eastern limit scarcely reaches into this state, ABUTILON, Tourn. Inpran Ma.iow. A. Avicenne, Gertn, Velvet-Leaf. . Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Wabasha and Blue Earth counties. Infrequent. HIBISCUS, L. RosE-MaLtow. H. militaris, Cav. Halberd-leaved Rose- Mallow. Banks of the Mississippi river between Saint Paul and Mendota (abundant), Mrs. Terry. South, H. Trionum, L. Bladder Ketmia. Flower of an Hour. Adventive, Minneapolis, Kassube, Upham; Goodhue county, Sandberg ; Martin county, Gedye. [This ‘ has become abundant in many parts” of Nebraska, Aughey.] STATE GEOLOGIST. oD TILIACH A. Linpen F amity. TILIA, L. LINDEN. Basswoop. T. Americana, L. Basswood. Bass. Linden. Lime Tree. Whitewood. Very abundant in the Big Woods, and generally common throughout the state ; not found near the Minnesota shore of lake Superior, but frequent north of this lake, on maple ridges 400 feet and more aboveit, attaining a hight of 70 feet and diameter of 20 inches, Clark; also, not found in Rock county, but very plentiful at Bear lakes in Mur- ray county, Upham; extending north to Basswood lake on the international boundary, Winchell. | The northern limit of this species is found just south of Thunder bay, from which it nearly follows the international boundaryto the lake of the Woods. It extends farther north in Manitoba, nearly tolake Winnipeg, and northwest to Fort Ellice. Dr. Rohert Bell.) (The leaves of this and many other species of trees, in their first few years of growth from the seed, are often remarkably large. The following measurements were made in Todd county, September i6th : leaf of basswood, blade, 14% inches long and 12 inches wide, borne ona petiole 3 inches long ; of large-toothed aspen, blade, 10 by 7%, and peti- ole, 4inches ; of balsam poplar, blade, 11 by 7, and petiole, 2inches ; and of elm, blade, 9 by 6 inches, with petiole only a half inch long.) * Basswood lumber is much used in cabinet work for boxes, shelves, etc., whenever a wood is desired which is soft and easily worked, and, at the same time, tough and not liable to split.” It decays more quickly than most kinds of lumber, when exposed to the weather, unless it is thoroughly painted ; but issufficiently durable, if kept dry. HEN MOUS ike Panay LINUM, L. Fuax. L. perenne, L.* Wild Flax, Prairie Flax. At Pembina, and thence westward, Chickering; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell. West. L suleatum, Riddell. Wild Flax, Common from Minneapolis, Roberts, southward, and westward to the Red river valley, Upham; Pipestone quarry, Mrs. Bennett. L. rigidum, Pursh.+ Wild Flax. From Winona county, Winchell, Minneapolis, Twining, and Anoka county, Juni, westward to Pipestone county, Leiberg, and the Red river valley (common in Clay county), Upham. South and west. * LINUM PERENNE,L,. Perennial, glabrous; leaves scattered, linear, acute; flowers nearly opposite the leaves and terminal ; peduncles becoming elongated and nodding in fruit ; sepals ovai with membranous margins, shorter than the globose capsule; petals free, blue, retuse, 3 to 4 times exceeding the calyx; styles 5; capsule 5-celled, with bearded dissepiments. Stems % to3 feet high ; flowers large. May to September. Watson's Rep. in King’s Hxpl. of the Fortieth Parallel. +LINUM RIGIDUM, Pursh. Dwarf; glaucous; styles united almost to the top. Gray's Manual.—Stems 5 to 15 inches high, angled, much branched ; branches strict, ascending ; leaves alternate, linear, pungently acute, rigid, with scabrous margins; flowers panicled or corymbose ; pedicels thickened at the end, and forming an exterior cup-shaped calyculus ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, strongly 3-nerved, glandular Spinulose-scabrous on the margins, longer than the globose capsule ; petals sulphur- yellow. Porter and Coulier’s Flora of Colorado. 36 TWE! FTH ANNUAL REPORT. L. usitatissimum, L. Common Flax. Sometimes adventive in fields : Minneapolis ; Blue Earth county ; Redwood Falls ; Luverne. GERANIACEA. ({JERANIUM FAMILY. GERANIUM, L. CRANESBILL. G. maculatum, L. Wild Cranesbill. Common, often abundant, through the south half of the state ; extending northwest to Clay county, Gedge, the upper Mississippi river, Garrison, and the mouth of Rainy river, Macoun. G. Carolinianum, L. Carolina Cranesbill. Common, or frequent, throughout the state; most plentiful northward, G. Robertianum, L. Herb Robert. Falls of the St. Croix, Parry; Fergus Falls, Leonard; extending west to the lake of the Woods, Macoun. North. ERODIUM, L’Her, STORKSBILL. HERON’S-BILL. E cicutarium, L*Her. Storksbill. Heron’ s-bill. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube, Roberts. Rare. An abundant weed in the Pacifie states and in some districts eastward. IMPATIENS, L. BaLsAM. JEWEL-WEED. TOUCH-ME-NOT, I. pallida, Nutt. Pale Touch-me-not. Throughout the state ; in many portions infrequent or rare ; common at New Ulm, Juni, and in Blue Earth county, Leiberg; abundant in Martin county, Cratty, and on the south shore of Red iake, Miss Babbitt. I. fulva, Nutt. Spotted Touch-me-not. Common throughout the state. (“At Beaver Bay a spotless variety, with less re- flected spur, was common and grew intermingled with the ordinary form, without show-_ ing any signs of intergradation.” Roberts.) OXALIS, L. Woon-SorREL, OXALIS O. Acetosella, L. Common Wood-Sorre}. Common north of lake Superior, Roberts; lake of the Woods, Macoun; extending northwest to the Saskatchewan, Richardson. North. O. violacea, L. Violet Wood-Sorrel. Common through the south half of the state to Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett; extending north to the upper Missisippi river, Garrison, and in the Red river valley at least to Clay county, Gedge. (Herrick reports, besides the type, a variety that bears white flowers, occurring quite frequently in the vicinity of Castle Rock, Dakota county ; and Miss Babbitt finds the same at Little Falls. Succulent flower-bearing scapes, not accompanied by leaves, are occasionally seen in September [Upham]. “The usual occurrence of awhite, carrot-shaped root beneath the ordinary scaly bulb” of [this species is noticed by Roberts, in the American Naturalist for August, 1879. See also Am. Nat., vol. xvi, pp. 13-19.) O. corniculata, L., var. stricta, Sav. (O. stricta, L.) Yellow Wood-Sor- rel. Ladies’ Sorrel. Common throughout the state. (de) —] ‘ STATE GEOLOGIST. RUTACEA Rue Famity. XANTHOXYLUM, Colden. Prickiy As#. X. Americanum, Mill. Northern Prickly Ash. Toothache-tree. Very abundant southward; extending north to Pine,Aitkin, Cass and Polk counties. PTELEA, L. SHrupsy TrRerorn. Hopr-TREE. P. trifoliata, L. Shrubby Trefoil. Hop-tree. Wafer Ash. aepham. Southeast. ANACARDIACE 4. CasHEW FAMILY. RHUS, L. SUMACH. RR. typhina, L. Staghorn Sumach. Limited to the east side of the state and the region from the upper Mississippi river northeastward, as follows: in Houston and Fillmore counties, rare ; in Winona county the most frequent species on the bluffs of the Mississippi (‘at Winona samples were seen eight inches in diameter’, Winchell), but rare farther west ; common in Ramgey and Hennepin counties, extending west into the Big Woods, and to Martin county, Oratty; rare in Benton county ; common in Pine county and westward to Mille Lacs, Little Falls and lake Alexander, Morrison county ; at Fish-hook lake in southwestern Cass county, Garrison; and occasional northeastward, being reported by Clark at Sandy lake, Fonddu Lac, Grand Portage and Pigeon river. R. glabra, L. Smooth Sumach. Common throughout the state, excepting north of lake Superior, where it is rare. RR, copallina, L. Dwarf Sumach. Houston countv, near La Crescent, also in Winona county, Winchell; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Saint Paul, Miss Catheart; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Worthington, foote; Pipestone county, Mrs, Bennett. Rare. South. R. venenata, DC. Poison Sumach. Poison Dogwood. Observed, like the preceding, in Houston county, near I.a Crescent, and in Winona county, by Prof. Winchell; Hennepin county, Simmons; Anoka county, Juni; upper Mississippi river, Garrison. Rare. R. Toxicodendron, L. Poison Ivy. Poison Oak, Common, often abundant, throughout the state. (Erect or decumbent, 1 to3 feet high ; not elimbing,] RR. Toxicodendron, L., var. radicans, Torr.* Climbing Poison Ivy. This variety (or species) occurs sparingly in the southeast part of the state. Mrs, Carter, Miss Manning. R, aromatica, Ait. Fragrant Sumach. Maligne river (near the international boundary east of Rainy lake), Macowv. Rare. *RHUS TOXICODENDRON, L., val. RADICANS, Torr. (R.radicans, L.) Stems climb- ing by means of innumerable radicating tendrils; leaflets 3, ovate, dark green, smooth and shining, entire, the lowest rarely angular; flowers greenish, racemed in axillary panicies ; berries dull white. A vigorous woody elimber, ascending trees and other objects 10 to 40 or 50 feet. The stem becomes 1 to 2 inches [or more] in thickness, covered with a greenish, scaly bark, and throws out all along its length myriads of fnread-like rootlets, which bind it firmly to its support. JWood’s Class-Book. 38 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. VITACE A. VinE Famy. VITIS, Tourn. GRAPE. V. Labrusea, L, Northern Fox-Grape. Occurs frequently, according to Clark, in the east part of the state, as far north- ward as southern Pine county, and rarely on the St. Louisriver; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. V. wstivalis, Michx. Summer Grape. Lapham. St. Croix Falls, Miss Field; Anoka county, Juni; BigStonelake, Winchell; Fergus Falls, Leonard. Infrequent. South, V. cordifolia, Michx.* Winter or Frost Grape. Frequent in the south half of the state ; also in the Red river valley, near Emerson, Manitoba, Dawson. V. riparia, Michx.f (V. cordifolia, Michx., var. riparia, Gray.) W imier or Frost Grape. Common throughout the state, excepting north of lake Superior. AMPELOPSIS, Michx. VIRGINIAN CREEPER. A. quinquefolia, Michx. Virginian Creeper. Five-leaf Ivy. American Ivy. ‘*‘Woodbine.’ Common through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley ; probably less frequent northeastward. ‘A very desirable climber, often cultivated *’ RHAMNACEA. BucktrHorn F'Aaminy. RHAMNUsS, Tourn. BUCKTHORN. R. alnifolia, L’Her. Alder-leaved Buckthorn. St. Croix river, Parry; Minneapolis, Winchell, Kassube; beach of lake Superior, Juni; lake of the Woods, Dawson. Rare southward ; common far northward. *VITIS CORDIFOLIA. Michx. Tall (or more rarely low), climbing high, trunks not rarely 6 to 9 inches in diameter ; leaves middle-sized or small (2'4 to 3 or 4 inches in diameter), heart-shaped, mostly entire or very slightly tri-lobed on the edges, with broad, shallow teeth, usually smooth and shining, more on the upper than on the lower side, the young ones sometimes, and very rarely the old ones, with short hair on the ribs below; berries small, in large, mostly loose bunches, black, without a bloom, maturing late in the fall, usually only with a single short and thick seed, marked by a prominent raphe.—— This grows more especially in fertile soil, and is common in river and creek bottoms. Engelmann, in Sivth An. Rep., Insects of Missouri; also in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. +VITIS RIPARIA, Michx. Mostly a smaller plant than the last, but with larger (3 to 5 inches in diameter) and more or less incisely 3-lobed, glabrous, shining (or rarely when young, slightly hairy) leaves, the lobes long and pointed, the teeth also more pointed than in V. cordifolia; berries usually larger than in the last, mostly with a bloom, in smaller and often more compact bunches, commonly 1-to 2-seeded ; seeds with a less prominent raphe.—— This species prefers thickets or rocky soil on river- banks ; the northern form has fewer and laryer berries in a bunch, and is easily distin- guished from V. cordifolia. The fruit ripens earlier than the former and is pleasanter. Engelmann, in Insects of Mo., and in Bull. Torr. Cl. STATE GEOLOGIST. en <=) CEANOTHUS, ibs New Jersrty TEs. RED-ROGT. C. Americanus, L. New Jersey Tea. Red-root, Common throughout the state, excepting far northward ; especially abundant on sandy tracts in the region of the upper Mississippi river. Yhough only a small shrub, ' one to three feet high, its root is a mass of gnarled wood, sometimes six or eight inches in diameter, ‘‘a troublesome obstacle in first breaking the soil.”’ C. ovatus, Desf. (C. ovalis, Bigelow.) Red-root. Sandy ridges of the St. Croix, “seeming to take the place of the preceding species and an indication of a more barren soil,” Parry; New Ulm,Juni. |Kaministiquia river (very abundant), Macoun. | Local. CELASTRACEA. STAFF-TREE FAMILY. CELASTRUS, L. STAFF-TREE. SHRUBBY BITTER-SWEET. C. scandens, L. Climbing Bitter-sweet. Wax-work. Common through the south half of the state, extending north to the sources of the Mississippi, and to Polk county ; less frequent north to Emerson, Manitoba, Scott. EUONYMUS, Tourn. SPINDLE-TREE. K. atropurpureus, Jacq. Burning-Bush. Waahoo. Frequent southward; extending north to Anoka county, Juni, Lake Elizabeth, Kandiyohi county, Mrs. Terry, and Clay county in the Red river valley, Gedge. E. Americanus, L., var. obovatus, Torr. & Gray. Trailing §traw- berry Bush. Minneapolis, Winchell; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Rare. SAPINDACEA. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. STAPHYLEA, L. BuabpER-Nvr. S. trifolia, L. American Bladder-Nut. Frequent southward ; extending north to Minnehaha falls, Roberts, and New Ulm, Juni. ACER, Tourn. MaPLe. A. Pennsylvanicum, L. Striped Maple. Mo dse-wood, Common northeastward, extending south to the upper Mississippi river and to southeastern Pine county ; rare and local farther south to lake Pepin, Miss Manniwg. A. spicatum, Lam. Mountain Maple. Abundant north of lake Superior and along the international boundary; extending south to Mille Lacs, Upham; rare and local farther southward on the Mississippi blufis at lake Pepin, Miss Manning, and in section 22, Richmond, Winona county, Winchell. A. saccharinum, Wang. Sugar Maple. Rock Maple. Hard Maple. Common, often abundant, throughout the state, excepting near its west side. Not fouud close to the shore of lake Superior, but common two or three miles from it, 400 feet or more above the lake, attaining a hight of 75 feet, Clark. The northern limit of this tree, accerding to Bell, extends from the lower part of the valley of the Kaminis- tiquia river westward, a little to the north of the boundary line, to the lake of the Woods, where it turns south. The Chippewa Indians, who are yet the principal inhab- 40 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. itants of the wooded region north of the Northern Pacific railroad, make considerable’ maple sugar, their ordinary product in the region of lake Superior, according to Clark, being from 100 to 500 pounds for each lodge. A, saccharinum, Wang., var. nigrum, Torr. & Gray. Black Sugar Maple. Houston county, Winchell; upper Mississippi river, Garrison, Mr. J.C. Arthur reports this variety common at Waterville, Le Sueur county, and believes it to be the prevailing form of the species at least through the south part of the state. A. dasyecarpum, Ehrh. White orSilver Maple. River Maple. Soft Maple. Common southward, extending north to the upper Mississippi and the White Earth reservation, Garrison. More frequently cultivated for shade than the next, each of these species being often called soft maple. A. rubrum, L. Red Maple. Swamp Maple. Soft Maple. Common through the east part of the state ; extending west to Mud Portage on the Dawson route (north of lake Superior), Macoun, the White Earth reservation, Garrison, and Redwood Falls, Pemberton; abundant in Winona county, Winchell. This and the two preceding species, especially the sugar maple, are valuable for furniture and eabi- net work, and are fine shade and ornamental trees, for which purpose they are exten- sively raised from the seed or transplanted from the woods. NEGUNDO, Mench. AsnH-teAvVED Maris. Box-Enpen. N. aceroides, Meench. Box-Elder. Common through the south half of the state, extending thus north to Kahiben: Mille Lacs and Wadena counties ; less frequent farther north to the St. Louis river near Fond du Lac, Winchell, Kaministiquia river, Macoun, and the upper Mississippi river, Garrison; also abundant throughout the Red river vailey and northwestward, reaching east to the lake of the Woods, Dawson. ‘Destined to be the shade tree of all the prairie cities” of Manitoba (Macoun), Along the Minnesota river, it sometimes exceeds three feetin diameter (Winchell). Sugar and syrup are made from it at Big Stone lake. POLYGALACEA. Mitkwort Famity. POLYGALA, Tourn. Mitkwort. PoLyGALa. P. sanguinea, L. Purple Milkwort. Frequent, or common, southward ; extending north to the upper Mississippi river, Gorrison, and Polk county, Upham. P. cruciata; L. Milkwort. Margins of swampy lakes, St. Croix river, Parry ; Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts ; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell. P. verticillata, L. Milk wort. Frequent, or common, in the south and west portions of the state ; extending north to Minneapolis, Simmons, New Ulm, Juni, and the Red river valley, Upham. P. Senega, L. Seneca Snakeroot. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. Several tons of this medicinal root are dug and sold yearly by the Chippewa Indians in the region of Mille Lacs, the Crow Wing river and the White Earth reservation, the price which they receive for it, when dried, being from 35 to 50 cents per pound. P. polygama, Walt. Pink Polygala. sandy soil, St. Croix river, Parry; lake Pepin, Miss Monning ; Saint Cloud, Garrison ; Anoka county and Brainerd, Upham; lake of the Woods, Dawson, ee a Ne STATE GEOLOGIST. 4] P. paucifolia, Willd. Fringed Polygala. Faribault, Rice county, Miss Beane. [Kaministiquia river. north of lake Superior, Macoun.| Rare. LEGUMINOSA. Putse Faminy. LUPINUS, Tourn. LUPINE. L. perennis, L. Wild Lupine. Perenniai Lupine. Common on light, sandy land from lake Pepin to the sources of the Mississippi riyv- er; also, Fergus Falls, Leonard. Rarely found with white flowers. TRIFOLIUM,L. Crover. T. arvense, L. Rabbit-fovt or Stone Clover. Saint Cloud, Stearns county, Campbell. tare, T. pratense, L. Red Clover. Frequently adventive throughout the state. T. repens, L. White Clover. Shamrock. Oecurring like the last, already very abundant in many districts; also quite cer- tainly indigenous through the north half of the state, Clark, Upham. T. hybridum, L.* Alsike Clover. Adventive, but scarcely established, Saint Cloud (sandy soil, on the grounds of the Norma) School), Campbell. Rare. T. procumbens, li. Yellow Clover. Low Hop-Clover. Stearns county (both the type and the var. minus, Koch), Campbell; Saint Paul, Minneapolis and lake Minnetonka (sparingly adventive), Roberts; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Rare. MELILOTUS, Tourn. Meuinot. Sweet Cirover. Hart's CLOVER. M. officinalis, Willd. Yellow Melilot. Goodhue county, Sandberg; Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts; Stearns county, Gar- vison; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. South. M. alba, Lam. White Melilot. Throughout the south half of the state, More frequent than the preceding. MEDICAGO, L. MeEpick. M. sativa, L. Lucerne. Alfalfa. Escaped from cultivation, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, Winchell. * Trifolium hybridum, L. Almost glabrous; leaflets obovate or oblong; stipules oblong, tips triangular; heads axillary, peduncled, globose; pedicels elongate, at length reflexed ; flowers {whitish, rose-tinted] drooping; calyx-tube campanulate, gibbous ; teeth subulate, nearly equal, unaltered in fruit. Hooker’s Students’ Flora of the British Islands. (See Botanical Gazette, vol. vii, pp. 121 and 135.) 42 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. HOSACKIA, Dougl. HOSACKEIA. H. Purshiana, Benth.* Hosackia. Gravelly shore of Swan lake, section 7, Underwood, Redwood county (leaves about % inch long, very short-petioled, of three oblong acute leaflets, the lateral ones oblique in their lower half), Upham. Southwest. PSORALEA, L. PSORALEA. P. tenuiflora, Pursh. (P. floribunda, Nutt.) Psoralea. Cottonwood county, Holzinger, Southwest P. argophylla, Puarsh. Silvery-leaved Psoralea. Abundant in all the prairie portion of the state; extending northeast to the upper Mississippi river, Garrison, (See note in American Naturalist, vol. xvii, p. 414.) P. esculenta, Puysh. Dakota Turnip. Pomme blanche. Pomme de Prairie. Pomme de Terre. Common southwestward ; extending east to the rising ground east of Red river prairie, Dawson, the Roseau river, Scott, Morrison county, Upham, Minneapolis (rare, found close east of lake Calhoun), Griswold, Roberts, and Blue Earth county, Leiberg. “Pomme de Prairie of the French voyageurs; Tipsinah of the Sioux Indians. It oc- curs over a wide range of country between the Mississippi aud the Rocky Mountains, and is a characteristic plant of the Coteau des Prairies. The root, frequently attaining the size of a hen’s egg, is of a regular, cylindric, ovoid shape, consisting of a thick, leathery envelope, easily separating when fresh from its smooth internal part. The latter is of a friable texture, except towards the axis, where some ligneous fibres are in- termixed. When dry, it acquires a sweetish taste, and is easily pulverized, affording a light, starehy flour, suitable for all the uses of the ordinary article. When growing its aspect is that of a Lupine. It selectsa dry, gravelly, but not barren soil.” Parry. } The Dakota (Sioux) name of the river in western Minnesota, well known as the Pomme de Terre, refers to this plant. Riggs’ Dakota Dictionary, p. 171. DALEA, L. DALEA. D. alopecuroides, Willd. Dalea. Spirit lake, Iowa, Geyer; and doubtless in the adjoining portions of Minnesota. Southwest. j PETALOSTEMON, Michx. PRAIRIE CLOVER. P. violaceus, Michx. Purple Prairie Clover. Abundant in all the prairie portion of the state ; extending northeast to the upper Mississippi river, Houghton. * HOSACKIA, Dougl. Calyx-teeth nearly equal. Petals free from the stamens, nearly equal; standard often remote from the rest, ovate or roundish; keel curved, obtuse or somewhat acutely beaked. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pod linear, compressed or nearly terete, sessile, several-seeded, with partitions be- tween theseeds. Herbaceous orrarely woody, with pinnate 2- to many-foliolate leaves; stipules mostly minute and gland-like; flowers in axillary sessile or pedunculate um- bels, yellow, often becoming brownish. HO@SACKIA PURSHIANA, Benth. Annual, usually a foot high or more, and more or less silky-villous : leaflets 1 to 5, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 9 lines long ; stipules gland-like ; flowers small, yellow, on peduncles exceeding the leaves, bracteate with a single leaflet; calyx-teeth linear, much exceeding the tube, about equalling the corol- la; pod linear, straight, smooth, an Inch long, 5- to 7-seeded. Watson in Botany of Wheeler’s Surveys west of the One Hundredth Meridian. Nae ee ee —— ae Tee ee STATE GEOLOGIST. 43 P. candidus, Michx. White Prairie Clover. Abundant, with same range as the last ; excepting that it is less common in the north part of the Red river valley, Upham. P. villosus, Nutt. Silky Prairie Clover. Common on sandy land, from lake Pepin, Miss Manning, Goodhue county, Sandhery, and the barrens of the St. Croix river, Parry, to Minneapolis, Lac qui Parle, and Polk county, Upham. ‘ AMORPHA, L. FatsE INDIGO. A. fruticosa, L. False Indigo. ‘‘ River Locust.” Common through the south half of the state, in the Red river valley, Upham, and to the upper Mississippi river, Garrison. A. canescens, Nutt. Lead-Plant. ‘‘ Shoe-strings.”’ Abundant, with the same range as the last. The common name alludes to its long tough roots, which are troublesome in plowing. A. microphylla, Pursh.* (A. nana, Nutt.) Dwarf False Indigo. Common from the Blue Earth river, Parry, and Chippewa. Swift and Grant counties, Roberts, southwestward ; also common, or frequent, throughout the Red river yalley, Upham. ROBINIA, L. Locust-TREE. R. Pseudacacia, L. © Common Locust-tree. False Acacia. Adventive, Minneapolis, Winchell. TEPHROSIA, Pers. Hoary Pa. T. Virginiana, Pers. Goat’s Rue. Catgut. Lapham. Hart, Winona county, Winchell; at head of lake Pepin, Sandherg, Washington county, Juni. South. ASTRAGALUS, L. MiuKk-VETcH. A. caryocarpus, Ker. Ground Plum. Common, often abundant in all the prairie portion of the state ; extending north- east to the upper Mississippi river, Garrison. ‘‘ When the pods, which are nearly solid, have reached the size of hazel-nuts, they prove a valuable addition to the list of early vegetables. Cooked like green peas, they make a pleasing dish, intermediate in taste and flavor between early peas and asparagus.” THY MELEACE AL. Mezereum Faminy. DIRCA, L. Learnerwoop. Moosz-woop. D, palustris, L. Leatherwood. Moose-wood. Common northeastward, extending thus west to the lake of the Woods, Richardson, White Earth reservation, Garrison, and Detroit, H. B. Ayres, and south to the Kettle river, Shumard, southeastern Pine county, Upham, and St. Croix Falls, Miss Field; frequent, but local, farther south, as near Minneapolis, Simmons, Saint Paul, Miss Catheart, Hastings, Mrs. Ray, Faribault, Miss Beane, Blue Earth county (common), Leiberg, New Ulm, Juni, and near the Great spring, Beaver creek, Caledonia, Houston eounty, Winchell. ELA AGNACEA. OLEASTER FAMILY. SHEPHERDIA, Nutt. SHEPHERDIA. 8. Canadensis, Nutt. Canadian Shepherdia. From lake Winnipeg to lake Superior, Say, Schweinitz; north shore of lake Super- ior, Juni; Minneapolis (rare), Miss Butler. North. S. argentea, Nutt. Buffalo-Berry. Rainy lake, Say, Schweinitz; upper Minnesota river, Geyer; near Walhalla, in northeastern Dakota, Scott. Northwest. ; ELH AGNUS, L. OLEASTER. E. argentea, Pursh.* Silver-Berry. Common from Ada northward in the Red river valley (forming patches ten to twenty rods long on the prairie, growing only about two feet high, fruiting plentifully ; but in thickets becoming five to eight feet high), and local in section 5, Eldorado Stevens county, Upham, Northwest. *KHLASAGNUS, L. Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube including the free ovary, the limb eylindric-campanulate or tubular below, parted above into 4 valvate deciduous lobes, colored within. Disk glandulose. Stamens 4, adnate to the calyx and alternate with its lobes, the free portion of the filaments very short; anthers oblong. Style simple, straight ; stigma 1-sided. Fruit drupe-like, covered with the thickened dry or fleshy closed calyx-tube ; the stone oblong, 8-striate.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire _ petioled leaves and axillary pedicelled flowers. E, ARGENTEA, Pursh. A stoloniferous unarmed shrub, 6 to 12feet high, the younger branches covered with ferruginous scales: leaves 114 to 4 inches long and % to 2% inches 122 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. SANTALACEA. SANDALWOOD FAMILY. COMANDRA, Nutt. BasTARD TOAD-FLAX. C. pallida, A. DC.* Bastard Toad-flax. Red river valley, Scott, determined by Mr. Sereno Watson. West. C. umbellata, Nutt. Bastard Toad-flax. Common throughout the state. C. livida, Richardson. Bastard Toad-flax. North shore of lake Superior, Juni; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell. [Isle Royale (common), Whitney.] North. SAURURACEA. | LizaARD’s-TAIL FAMILY. SAURURUS, L. LIzAkD’S-TAIL. S. cernuus, L. Lizard’s-tail. Upper Mississippi river, Houghton. Infrequent, CERATOPHYLLACEA. Hornwort FAamIty. CERATOPHYLLUM, L. HorRNWORT. C. demersum, L. Hornwort. White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Kelley; lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, Upham; small lakes at the Pipestone quarry (var. commune, Gray, with fruit about 3 lines long, tipped with the stout straight style also about 3 lines long, and with a similar short spine, 2 lines long, at the base on each side), Mrs Bennett. Probably common throughout the state. CALLITRICHACEA. WATER-STARWORT FAMILY. CALLITRICHE, L. WaATER-STARWORT. C. verna, L. Water-Starwort. Throughout the state. North of lake Superior (common), Roberts; Pembina, Hav- ard; Cottonwood county, Upham. {C. autumnalis, L., probably occurs also in northern Minnesota.] wide, broadly ornarrowly elliptic, rather acute at each end, or lanceolate and undulate, silvery-scurfy and more or less ferruginous; flowers numerous, defiexed, silvery without, pale yellow within, fragrant, 3 to 5 lines long, the tube broadly oval, the limb funnel- form ; fruit [silvery in color, like the foliage] globose-ovoid, dry and mealy, edible, 4 or 5linesinlength. Watson’s Rep. in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. *COMANDRA PALLIDA, A. DC. Stems several from a branched woody caudex, herbaceous, striate, erect, 6 to 10 inches high, branching above; leaves alternate, bluish, somewhat punctate on the margins, the lower elliptic oblong, mucronate-acute, 8 to 12 lines long and 2 to 8 lines wide, the uppermost usually linear-lanceolate, 5 to 10 lines Jong and about 1 line wide, sometimes so continued dowa the stem (forming var, angustifolia); cymes terminal, few-flowered ; bracts linear-lancevlate, 2 lines long; floweis perfect ; calyx-lobes erect-spreading ; fruit 3 lines in diameter, with subfleshy epicarp.—Flowers precisely as in C. umbellata ; distinguished especially by its narrowed upper leaves and much larger fruit, Watson’s Rep.in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. STATE GEOLOGIST. 123 PODOSTEMACEA. RIVER-WEED FAMILY. PODOSTEMON, Michx. RIVER-WEED. P. ceratophyllus, Michx. River-weed. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Rare. . EUPHORBIACEA. SPuRGE FamIty. EUPHORBIA, L. SPURGE. E. polygonifolia, L. Shore Spurge. Lapham. Shore of lake Superior ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. E. Geyeri, Engelm. Geyer’s Spurge. Lapham, T. J. Hale. Common at Minneapolis, Upham, Simmons. E. serpyllifolia, Pers. Thyme-leaved Spurge, Minneapolis, Herrick; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county, Gedge; New Ulm, Juni; Murray county, Upham; Stearns county, Mrs, Blaisdell; Pembina, Havard. E. glyptosperma, Engelm. Spurge. Minneapoiis, Herrick; Saint Cloud, Campbell; Red river valley, Scott. E. maculata, L. Spotted Spurge. Common through the south half of the state and perhaps northward. _E. humistrata, Eogelm. Spurge. Minneapolis, Roberts; Winona county, Holzinger; Martin county, Gedge. South. E. hypericifolia, L Spurge. Waste, dry places. St. Croix river, Parry; Minneapolis, Roberts; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Winona county, Holzinger; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. South, E. marginata, Pursh. White-margined Spurge. ‘“ Mountain Snow.” Frequent, often common, southwestward ; extending northeast to Redwood Falls (found to be poisonous to the touch, even in mounting dried specimens), Miss Butler; in Lyon county becoming a common weed in cultivated fields, Upham. EK. corollata, L. Flowering Spurge. Frequent, often common, through the south half of the state. E. heterophylla, L. Spurge. Spirit lake, Minnesota river, etc., Geyer; Blue Earth county, Leiberg, Gedge; Min- neapodlis, Twining, A. W. Jones; Goodhue county, Sandberg; lake Pepin, Miss Man- ning. South. E. dictyosperma, Fischer & Meyer. Spurge. Rock county, Leiberg. Southwest. E. Cyparissias,L. Garden Spurge. Adventive: Mankato, Leiberg; Goodhue county, Sandberg; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [E. commutata, Engelm., should be looked for in this state.] ACALYPHA, L. THREE-SEEDED MERCURY. A. Virginica, L. Three-seeded Mercury. Minneapolis. Roberts; Blue Earth county, Leiberg ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. 124 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. EMPETRACEA. CROWBERRY FAMILY. EMPETRUM, Tourn. CROWBERRY. E. nigrum, L. Black Crowberry. North shore of lake Superior, Macoun ; doubtless in northern Minnesota. URTICACEA. Nettie Famity. ULMUS,L. Ex. U. fulva, Michx. Slippery or Red Elm. Frequent, often common, throughout the state, excepting far northward. Well known for its mucilaginous, medicinal inner bark; the reddish wood, used for ox-yokes, posts, etc., is strong, light and durable. 7 U. Americana, L. White Elm. Amercian Elm. Water Elm. Common throughout the state; but not found close to the shore of lake Superior. Wood tough, often used for axe-helves, whip-stocks, ete.; our most desirable tree for transplanting for ornament and shade. This and basswood are the most abundant trees in the Big Woods. ¥ U. racemosa, Thomas. Corky White Elm. Rock Elm. Frequent, often common, eastward ; extending west to Blue Earth county, Leiberg, Nicollet county, Aiton, New Ulm (common), Juni, and the upper Mississippi river, Garrison. Wood drier than the last and more valuable ; much used by wheelwrights. CELTIS, Tourn. NETTLE-TREE. HACKBERRY. ©, occidentalis, L. Sugarberry. Hackberry. Frequent through the south half of the state ; rare and local northward, as at the east side of Mille Lacs and at lake Alexander, Upham; near lake Lida, Otter Tail county, Frazee; on the Red river in Clay county ; at Red Lake Falls; on the upper Mississippi ; and on the Big Fork of Rainy Lake river, in T. 149, R. 26, , Hinchellwood. {Also at Eagle lake, north of Rainy lake, Bell, Macoun; and in northeastern Dakota, Scott.] : MORUS, Tourn. Mouiperry. ~ : : M. rubra, L. Red Mulberry. Big Woods, Winchell; Houston county, J. S. Harris. [West to Dakota, Sargent, and eastern Nebraska, Aughey.] Infrequent. South, URTICA, Tourn. NETTLE. U. gracilis, Ait. Tall Wild Nettle. Common throughout the state. U. dioica, L. Great Stinging Nettle. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Rare. LAPORTEA, Gaud. Woop-NETTLE. L. Canadensis, Gaud. Wood-Nettle. Common through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley ; extending northeast to the upper Mississippi river and Roseau river. “It is of this plant the Indians usually make their fishing lines, the rotted remains of the previous year’s growth furnishing an abundant supply.” Parry. STATE GEOLOGIST. 125 PILEA, Lindl. RIcHWEED. CLEARWEED. P. pumila, Gray. Richweed. Clearweed. St. Croixriver, Parry; Minneapolis, Simmons; lake Minnetonka(common), Roberts; Blue Earth county, Letberg; Fergus Falls, Leonard. South. BQHMERIA, Jacq. Fause Nettie. B. cylindrica, Willd. False Nettle. Lapham. Fergus Falls, Leonard. Infrequent. PARIETARIA, Tourn. Petiitory. P. Pennsylvanica, Muhl. Pellitory. Minneapolis (presenting, besides the type, a larger and much branched form), Her- rick, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; and northwest to the upp2r Missouri and Saskatchewan rivers. Infrequent. South and west. CANNABIS, Tourn, Hemp. C. sativa, L. Hemp. A common or frequent weed. HUMULUS, L. . Hor. H. Lupulus, L. Common Hop. Common, especially northward; ‘‘native on all the tributaries of the upper Missis— ippi,” Parry. PLATANACEA. Prann-tRee Famtty. PLATANUS, Tourn. PLANE-TREE. BUTTONWOOD. P. occidentalis, L. American Plane-tree. Buttonwood. Sycamore. Lapham. Southeast, rare. The northwest limit of this species scarcely enters Minnesota. JUGLANDACEA. Watnout Famity. JUGLANS, L. Watnvt. J. cinerea, L. Butternut, Oil-nut. White Walnut. Common southward, but absent far southwest ; extending north to the Snake river jn Pine and Kanabec counties, Norwood, Upham, and on the Mississippi river to the north line of Aitkin county, Garrison. Wood valuable for cabinet work and in house- building for inside finishing J. nigra, L. Black Walnut. Frequent in the south part of the state; extending north to Nininger, Dakota county, southern Scott and Carver counties, and to Walnut Grove in the south edge of Redwood county. Because of the great value of its lumber, nearly all the black wal- nut of large size in this state has been cut ; but much of young growth remains. CARYA, Nutt. Hickory. C. alba, Nutt. Shell-bark or Shag-bark Hickory. ‘‘ Walnut,’’ Common, or frequent, in Houston county; extending north into Winona county at 126 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. least to Winona and Stockton, and west(rare) into Fillmore, Mower and Freeborn. counties, to Moscow, Winchell; near Weaver and Kellogg, Wabasha county, and near Chatfield, on the south line of Olmsted county, W. D. Hurlbut. Southeast. ‘Timber very valuable, used wherever great durability, strength and elasticity are required.” Cc. poreina, Nutt. —‘ Pig-nut or Broom Hickory. Lapham. Southeastward, extending north to Snake river, Clark; near lake Pepin on the Wisconsin side, Mrs. Ray. be C. amara, Nutt. Bitter-nut or Swamp Hickory. Common, or frequent, southward ; extending througa the Big Woods, and north to Mille Lacs, and sparingly to the upper Mississippi river,and to Whiteface river, tributary to the St. Louis river. This species furnishes nearly all the hoop-poles for flour-barrels cut in the southern and central portions of the state. CUPULIFER. Oak Famity. QUERCUS, L. Oak. Q. alba, L White-Oak. Frequent, or common, in the southeast and central parts of the state; extending north to Fond du Lac, Clark, Savannah river, and Squagemaw lake, Winchell, and to Pokegema falls, Pemidji lake (plentiful in many places on the upper Mississippi river), and the White Earth reservation, Garrison. ‘‘Strong, durable, and beautiful timber.” Q. stellata, Wang. (Q. obtusiloba, Michx.) Post-Oak.. Rough or Box White-Oak. Upper Mississippi river, Houghton. Infrequent. Q. macrocarpa, Michx. Bur-Oak. Over-cup or Mossy-cup White-Oak. Common, or abundant, throughout the state, excepting far northeastward. Its northeastern limit north of lake Superior, according to Bell,is near the international boundary; but he states that it attains a good size onthe Rainy river and thence westward. (‘In going west, this species is first met with at the east end of Eagle lake” [north of Rainy lake], Macoun.) Timber valuable, similar to that of white oak. Q. bicolor, Willd. Swamp White-Oak. Frequent in Benton, Mille Lacs and Morrison counties, and thence north to lake Winnibigoshish and the White Earth reservation, Garrison. Q. Muhlenbergii, Engelm. (Q. Prinus, L., var. acuminata, Michx.) _—‘Yel- low Chestnut-Oak. Lapham. Southeast. i Q. tinctoria, Bartram. (Q. coccinea, Wang., var. tinctoria, Gray.) Black Oak. Quercitron or Yellow-bariked Oak. Common, or abundant, southward; extending north to Pine county, Upham, and to Pokegama falls and the White Earth reservation, Garrison; the most abundant spe- cies of oak in the southeast part of the state. This species and the bur oak vary from 20 to 50 or 60 feet in hight, according to their situation and soil; besides which, each occurs frequently dwarfed, growing as scrubby brush from 3 to 10 feet high. Q. coccinea, Wang. Scarlet Oak. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; ‘tin Minnesota (Engelmann),” Sargent. Q. coccinea, Wang., var. ambigua, Gray. Gray Oak. Prairie river, attaining a hight of 50 feet and diameter of 10 inches, Clark; White Earth reservation, Garrison. North. - , STATE GEOLOGIST. 127 Q. rubra, L. Red Oak, Occasional southward, and north to the upper Mississippi river, Geyer, Garrison; continuing on the north side of }ake Superior to the Kaministiquia river, Bell, Macoun. In autumn the leaves of the black and red oaks change to red and crimson colors ; while the foliage of the white and bur oaks changes only to dull green, gray aud brown. At the same time the leaves of the sumachs and red maple become reo or séarlet ; of the sugar maple, yellow; and of bass, box-elder, ash trees, elms, poplars, and cotton- wood, various shades of brown and yellow. Q. palustris, Du Roi. Swamp Spanish Oak. Pin Oak. Lapham. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison. [Sargent and Bell have mentioned Minnesota as a western limit of the American beech (Fagus ferruginea, Ait.), but it probably does not extend into this state. | CORYLUS, Tourn. HazeEL-NutT. FILBert. ©. Americana, Walt. Common Wild Hazel-nut. - Common, in many districts abundant, throughout the state. C. rostrata, Ait. | Beaked Hazel-nut. Common northward ; extending south to Benton county and Spruce Hill, Douglas county, Upham; rare and local farther south, as on rocky bluffs in southeastern Winona county, Winchell. Juni says of this species north of Jake Superior: ‘‘In some places the bushes reach a hight of fifteen feet, with stems from one to one and a half inches in diameter. The tops bend over from the weight of the fruit.” OSTRYA, Micheli. Hopr-HornBEAM. IRON-WoOD. O. Virginica, Willd. American Hop-Hornbeam. Iron-wood. Lever-wood. Common, often abundant, throughout the state; but not close to the shore of lake Superior. CARPINUS, L. HornBEAM. IRONWOOD. C, Caroliniana, Walt. (C. Americana, Michx.) American Hornbeam. Blue or Water Beech. Common through the south half of the state; extending north to Pine county and Sandy lake, Clark, the Savannah portage, Winchell, and White Earth reservation, Garrison. “Wood of this and the preceding tough and durable ; used for wedges, levers, &c.”’ MYRICACE AL. Sweet-GaLe Famiy. MYRICA, L. BaYBERRY. Wax-MyrtTLe. M. Gale, L. Sweet Gale. Common on lake-shores, along the international boundary, between lake Superior and Rainy lake, Winchell. North. COMPTONIA, Solander. Swenrt-Fnrn. C.asplenifolia, Ait. Sweet-Fern. Frequent northeastward; extending south to Snake river in southeastern Pine county, Upham, and southwest to Cass lake, Schoolcraft; italso occurs at Jacob Streitz’s quarry in section 28, Saint Cloud, Upham, and near Excelsior, Hennepin county, Mrs. Terry. 128 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. BETULACEA. Birca Famtty. BETULA, Tourn. — Biron. [B. lenta, L. (cherry birch, sweet or black birch) possibly extends west to northern Mipvnesota. Dr. Bell mentions this state as its northwestern limit. Some of the more northern references under B. nigra may belong instead to this species. ] B. lutea, Michx. f. Yellow or Gray Birch. Common through the north half of the state and south to Sherburne county, reach- ing a hight of 75 feet and diameter of 3 or 4 feet; rare in the Big Woods, and south- east to Houston county, Winchell. ‘The 49th parallel forms the average northern limit of this species from Newfoundland tothe Red river valley, in which it curves round and runs southward.”’ Bell. B. papyracea, Ait. Paper or Canoe Birch. Silver Birch. Common, often abundant, through the north half of the state, attaining an equal size with the preceding ; also common, but much smaller, southeastward near the Mis- sissippi river ; thence extending west, less frequent, to the Big Woods, and to Birch Cooley (plentiful), Renville county ; absent southwestward ; “found along the Assini- boine valley as far west as the Qu’Appelle lakes,” Bell. ‘The bark of this tree, to- gether with that of the Arbor-vitz, is made use of in innumerable ways by the Indians.” Roberts. B. nigra, L. River or Red Birch. Savannah portage, Douglass; White Earth reservation, Garrison; Kettle river, Shumard; Blue Earth county, Nicollet; Winona county, Holzinger; abundant along the Mississippi bottoms at least as far north as Minneiska, Wabasha county, Winchell. Southeast. B. pumila, L. Low Birch. “ Tag Alder.”’ Common through the north half of the state, and south to Mingiepeaia and Saint Paul; less frequent or rare farther south, to lake Pepin, Miss M Cm and Olmsted county, Harrington. B. glandulosa, Michx. Dwarf Birch. Savannah river, Houghton; north shore of lake Superior, Juni, Winchell; ridge east of the Red river, Scott. North. ALNUS, Tourn. ALDER, A. viridis, DC. Green or Mountain Alder. North of lake Superior (common), Juni, Roberts. North. A. incana, Willd., var. glauca, Regel. Speckled or Hoary Alder. Black Alder. Common, or frequent, through the north half of the state, and southeastward to Minneapolis; less frequent thence southeast ; rare southwestward. A. serrulata, Ait. Smooth Alder. Lapham, Winchell. Rare. Southeast. SALICACE AL. Wittow Famity. SALIX, Tourn. WILLow. OSIER. S. candida, Willd. | Hoary Willow. Throughout the state, excepting far southward. Bogs, St. Croix river, Parry; Min- STATE GEOLOGIST. 129 neapolis, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; New Ulm, Juni; north of lake Superior, Agassiz; upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Red river valley, Macoun. S. tristis, Ait. Dwarf Gray Willow. Lapham. Minneapolis, Winchell; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Lake City, Mrs. Ray. S. humilis, Marshall. Prairie Willow. Blue Earth county, Leiberg, Upham; frequent in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty; abundant nearthe Mississippi river, on dry, sandy land, especially in openings of woods, from lake Pepin, Miss Manning, Mrs. Ray,and Ramsey county, north at least to Brainerd (usually only about one foot high, agreeing best, excepting in habitat, with Gray’s description of S. tristis), Upham; north of lake Superior, Agassiz. Proba- bly throughout the state. S. discolor, Muhl. Glaucous Willow. Pussy Willow. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. [S. sericea, Marshall, probably occurs, but infrequently, in Minnesota.] S. petiolaris, Smith.* Petioled Willow. Freeborn county (frequent), Upham. Probably our prevailing form of this species is var. GRACILIS, Anders. (M.S. Bebb.) S. purpurea, L. Purple Willow. Minneapolis, Simmons. Infrequent. S. cordata, Muhl. Heart-leaved Willow. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. S. cordata, Mubhl., var. angustata, Gray. Stearns county, Garrison. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz; Nebraska (common), Aughey.] S. balsamifera, Barratt.+ (S. pyrifolia, Anders.; see notes by U.S. Bebb in Botanical Gazette, vol. iv, p. 190.) Balsam-bearing Willow. Red river valley near Saint Vincent, Burgess, Macoun. North. * SALIX PETIOLARIS, Smith, var. GRACILIS, Anders. Female aments gracefully subpendulous, at length somewhat leafy-peduncled, very loosely flowered ; scales lin- gulate, apex brownish ; capsules long acute-rostrate from an ovate base, thinly silky, or somewhat glabrous, very long-pediceled ; pedicel nearly eight times the length of the nectary; style very short; stigmas 2-parted, fuscous, spreading ; leaves narrowly lanceolate-linear, serrulate, about 2 inches long and 2 to 4 lines wide, pale and subglau- cous beneath, both sides at length glabrous. Varies: 1st, sericocarpa; capsules nar- rowly conical, 2% lines long, thinly silky. 2d, leiocarpa ; capsules thick at base, green- ish red. Andersson in DC. Prod., 16,2, 235; translated by M. S. Bebb. +SALIX BALSAMIVERA, Barratt. A glabrous, much branched shrub, 4 to 8 feet high ; twigs crimson where exposed to the sun; leaves ovate, abruptly pointed, 1 inch _ wide by 1% inches long, on sterile shoots oblong-lanceolate, 1144 inches wide by 3 to 4 inches long, all rounded or subeordate at base, very thin and slightly hairy beneath when young, rigid, glabrous, and prominently reticulate-veined when mature, bright green above, paler or glaucous beneath, margin finely glandular-serrate; petioles slender, 4% inchlong ; stipules minute, caducous: aments with a few leaf-like bracts at base, the male densely flowered, very silky, female less so and becoming very lax in fruit, bracts often more leafy ; scales pale or rosy ; capsules elongate-conical or rostrate from a thick base, 2 or 3 lineslong, glabrous, the long pedicels six to eight times the length of the nectary ; style rather short, bifid; lobes of the stigma thick, spreading, emarginate. ‘‘No.53, Herb. H.,B. and T.” (v.s.inh. Torr.) S. cordata, Muhl., var. balsamifera, Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., 2,149. S. pyrifolia, Anders., DC. Prod., 16, 2, 264.— White mountains of N. H., Pringle; New Brunswick, Fowler; and Labrador, Allen; westward to the Saskatchewan. Readily distinguished from S. cordata by the very loosely flowered fertile aments, often two inches or more long in fruit, thicker and more yellowish staminate aments, and the proportionately broader and shorter Amelanchier- like leaves. M.S. Bebb, MSS. OF 130 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. S. rostrata, Richardson. (8. livida, Wahl., var. occidentalis, Gray.) Beaked Willow. Livid Willow. Common throughout the state, S. lucida, Muhl. Shining Willow. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. S. nigra, Marshall. Black Willow. Throughout the state; frequent northward, common southward. This and the next are our only native species of willow that become trees, the others being shrubs. S. amygdaloides, Anders.* Almond-leaved Willow. Red river and eastward, Bebb; probably frequent throughout the state. S. fragilis, L. Xalba, L. White Willow. Occasionally spontaneous ; much cultivated, especially on the prairies, for shade and protection from the wind. Timber culture, of this tree, red and sugar maple, box- elder, cottonwood, Lombardy poplar, and other species, is being begun extensively in the prairie region, chiefly for the rewards provided by laws of the state and United States governments. The white willow is well adapted to yield fuel, as it grows rap- idly, and, when cut down, shoots up vigorously anew from the stump. In good soil, with good care, probably ten acres of this willow would supply an average household with fire-wood continually. , M.S. Bebb regards this “white willow,” commonly planted (by cuttings) for screens, as a hybrid of S. fragilis and S. alba, being apparently the form named S. fragilis, L., var. Russelliana, Carey, in Gray’s Manual. Mr. Bebb writes: “Among the varieties cultivated throughout the Northwest, I have seen no genuine S. alba. In one form, S. fragilis X alba, var. (c.) vestita, Wimmer (S. palustris, Host.), the leaves approach very near to S, alba, var. ccerulea, but the flowers are different. Much the more com- monly planted form is S. fragilis X alba, var. (b.) glabra, Wimmer (exactly S. excelsior, Host.; S. viridis, Fries, when the under surface of the leaf is pale green).”’ S. longifolia, Muhl. Long-leaved Willow. Sand-bar Willow. Common throughout the state. S. myrtilloides, L. Myrtle Willow. Frequent northward, rare southward. Swamps, St. Croix river, Parry; north of lake Superior, Agassiz; Kanabec and Benton counties, Upham; Dellwood, White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Kelley; Minneapolis, Kassube; near Eagle lake, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. POPULUS, Tourn. PorpLaR. ASPEN. P, tremuloides, Michx. American Poplar or Aspen. Common, or abundant, throughout the state, especially northward. Wood of this and the next is valuable for paper-making. P. grandidentata, Michx. Large-toothed Poplar or Aspen. Common, or frequent, throughout most of the state ; excepting the southeastern *SALIX AMYGDALOIDES, Anders. Leaves broadly lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long, % to 1% inches wide, with a long tapering point, glaucous beneath, closely serrate, petioles long and slender, stipules minute and very early deciduous : aments leafy-peduncled, elongated-cylindrical, pendulous ; the fertile when in fruit lax, 3 to 4 inches long, % inch thick ; scales in the male ament ovate, villous with crisp hairs, in the female narrower, somewhat smooth, fugacious : capsules globose-conical, glabrous, long-pedicelled ; style very short or obsolete, stigmas notched. . . . In aspect very unlike S. nigra [like which, this species attains a tree-like size], and in fact more frequently mistaken for S. lucida. The broad leaves, being supported by long and slender petioles, are moved by the slightest breeze, displaying in rapid, fluttering succession their conspicuous white under surfaces, thus producing an effect in striking contrast with the changeless, soft light reflected from masses of the foliage of 8S. nigra when swayed gently by the wind. Bebb in Wheeler’s Report of Surveys west of the One Hundredth Meridian. STATE GEOLOGIST. 131 counties and far northward, where it occurs sparingly, and southwestward, where it is absent. P. monilifera, Ait. (Including P. angulata, Ait.) Cottonwood. Neck- lace Poplar. Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state; rare farther north; reaching its northern limit in southeastern Pine county, the region of the upper Missis- sippi, Houghton, White Earth reservation, Garrison, and Red Lake Falls and the Red river valley, Upham. ‘Large trees occur along the Assiniboine river,” Bell. ‘‘ Exten- sively planted for shelter andfuel. The cotton from the seeds proves a source of much annoyance to the tidy housewife. If only male trees, those with reddish tassels, were planted, no cotton would be produced. Both kinds of tassels, the green and the red, appear in spring before the leaves come out.” Arthur. P. balsamifera, L. Balsam Poplar. Tacamahac. Common, or frequent, through the north half of the state ; extending southwest to Cannon river (rare), Sandberg, Osakis lake, Upham, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. P. balsamifera, L., var. candicans, Gray. Balm of Gilead. Frequent northeastward ; extending southwest to southeastern Pine county, Little Falls, and White Earth reservation. P. dilatata, Ait. Lombardy Poplar. Spontaneous, Mankato, Leiberg. [Stiff spiry tree, with closely appressed branches. and small broadly triangular pointed leaves ; formerly much planted. Gray’s Field, Forest, and Garden Botany.]| P. alba, L. White Poplar. Silver-leaf Poplar. Abele. Abel-tree. Cultivated, and thence sometimes spreading spontaneously, in Martin county, Cratty. [Tree planted from Europe, with spreading branches, roundish, slightly heart- shaped wavy-toothed or lobed leaves soon green above, very white cottony beneath ; buds not glutinous: spreads inveterately bythe root. Gray’s Field, Forest, and Gar- den Botany. | CONIFERA. Pint FamiIty. PINUS, Tourn., Link. Ping. P. Banksiana, Lambert. “Jack Pine.” Gray or Northern Scrub Pine. Banks’ or Banksian Pine. Black Pine. Common northeastward ; abundant on sandy land in the region of the upper Missis- sippi and Crow Wing rivers, from Brainerd and Wadena northward ; having its south- west limit at the St. Croix and Snake rivers, Princeton, Brockway (Stearns county), Stowe and Oak Valley (ten miles south of Wadena), in the White Earth reservation, and at the lake of the Woods and on Roseauriver. This species, almost alone, but with red pines here and there sparingly intermixed, forms thick woods at many places in Cass, Wadena and Crow Wing counties, as, for example, at Brainerd, growing very stiaight and slender, 40 to 60 feet in hight, but seldom exceeding a foot in diameter. Its coarse, resinous wood is excellent fuel, but it is not adapted to building purposes. Many rail- _ road ties are made from this and the next species of pine, but are inferior in value and durability to those of bur oak, which are more used in this way. Often five ties, each eight feet long, are obtained from a single Jack pine. Rarely this tree attains a hight of eighty feet, one of this size being found by Professor Winchell on Brule mountain» north of lake Superior. [This tree grows sixty to seventy feet high in northern Michi- gan (Wheeler and Smith’s Catalogue, and Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, x, 82) ; and Dr. Bell records it as about seventy feet in hight and two feet in diameter, in large groves, on the southern branches of the Albany river. | _P. resinosa, Ait. ‘“* Norway Pine.’’ Red Pine. Common or frequent northward, growing in groves, or scattered, on somewhat sandy land ; not extending, in general, quite so far southwest as the preceding. Usually 132 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. called ‘‘ Norway pine’; but wrongly, for this species is not found in Norway, nor in Europe. It is mostly from 50 to 75 feet high, but seldom more than about a foot in dia- meter. Clark reports that it attains a hight of 90 feet and diameter of 20 inches, north of lake Superior. It is considerably sawn for lumber, and is also much used fer piles, as for wharves and foundations of bridge piers. In the region of the upper Mississippi this species is reported by Garrison as occurring in two varieties, which are distin- guished by lumbermen under the names Hard Norway pine and Red-barked Norway pine. P. Strobus, L. White Pine. Common through the north half of the state, excepting west of Red lake and the lake of the Woods ; preferring somewhat clayey land, occasionally making a majestic forest without intermixture of other large trees, but oftener associated with maple, elm, bass, oak, ash, and other deciduous species ; frequent along the north side of lake Superior, but forming no extensive pine forest on the immediate shore. This is the largest, as well as the most useful, of our trees, growing from 80 to 125, rarely 150, feet in hight, and from three to six feet in diameter. The southwestern limit of the pineries extends from the north edge of Chisago county westerly through Kanabec and Mille Lacs counties, the northeast corner of Benton county, Morrison county, and northeastern Todd county, to Pine lakes, Frazee City, and the White Earth reservation ; but only a comparatively small part of the region northeast of this line is covered with pine woods. Southeastward, beyond this limit, white pine occurs rarely and locally in the vicinity of the Mississippi, St. Croix, Cannon, Zumbro and Root rivers, in most instances on bluffs of these or their tributary streams ; as at Saint Cloud, Dayton, Minnehaha falls, Pine Bend, Taylor’s Falls, Fran- conia (where it was first cut in Minnesota, to any considerable extent, for lumber), near Cannon River Falls, near Mantorville, near Rochester, in section 29, Saint Charles, Winona county, and at various points in Fillmore and Houston counties. Mr. Platt B. Walker, of Minneapolis, editor of the Lumberman and Manufacturer, states that approximately 400,000,000 feet (board-measure) of pine are annually cut in the north central part of this state, on the Mississippi river and its tributaries, about three-quarters of which are sawed at Minneapolis; and that some 200,000,000 feet are annually cut on the St. Croix river and its branches, about half of which is cut in Min- nesota, chiefly on the Snake river, the ainount sawed at Stillwater being some 100,000,000 feet yearly. Throughout these districts about three-quarters of the timber cut are white pine, and the remainder red or Norway pine. Much white pine is also cut on the St. Louis river, the Otter Tail river, Clearwater river (a tributary of Red Lake river), and recently on the Rainy Lake river; and red pine is cut on Pine creek, tributary to Roseau lake and river, west of the lake of the Woods. The amount of merchantable pine standing in Minnesota in 1880 was estimated by O. S. Sargent, special agent of the United States census, at 6,100,000,000 feet; and the amount cut in the state during the preceding year is reported to be 540,997,000 feet. PICEA, Link. SPRUCE. P. nigra, Link. (Abies nigra, Poir.) | Black Spruce. Double Spruce. Common northeastward ; extending south to Chisago and Isanti counties, and west to Spruce Hill, Douglas county, the White Earth reservation, Red lake, and the lake of the Woods and Roseau river. It attains, in favorable situations, a hight of 70 feet and diameter of 18 inches, Clark; but usually it is small, and none of it is cut for lumber in this state. P. alba, Link. (A. alba, Michx.) White Spruce. Single Spruce. Common far northward ; extending south to Moose Lake, Carlton county, Upham, and to the upper Mississippi river and White Earth reservation, Garrison, and west to the lake of the Woods and Roseau river ; 20 feet high, 8 inches in diameter, Clark. TSUGA, Carnitre. HEMLOcK-SPRUCE. T. Canadensis, Carriére. (Abies Canadensis, Michx.) Hemlock-Spruce. — Hemlock. Mentioned by Nicollet as observed in the region of the upper Mississippi, and by STATE GEOLOGIST. 133 Worwood in the valley of the St. Louis river ; included in Dr. Lapham’s catalogue ; also reported as occurring, locally, near Pokegama lake, Cass county, and at the north side of Sand lake, in the southwest part of T. 46, R. 19, Carlton county, and in other parts of this county, as on Black Hoof creek ; all of which need verification. Though plentiful not far eastward in Wisconsin, it extends very scantily, if at all,into Minnesota. ([‘‘On the south shore of lake Superior it does not reach the western extremity, turning south- ward in the neighborhood of Ashland. I am informed, however, that there is an out- lying grove of hemlock at Thomson, about twenty-five miles west of Duluth. ‘This tree maintains a good size to the verge of its range, and always appears to terminate abruptly.’ Bell.] a ABIES, Link. = Fir. A. balsamea, Marshall. Balsam Fir, Common northeastward, attaining a hight of 50 feet, Clark; extending south and west to nearly the same limits as the black spruce ; also farther south, rare and local, as near Mantorville, Dodge county, Harrington, and in the heavy timber in the northeast part of Spring Valley, Fillmore county, Winchell. LARIX, Tourn. LaRcH. L. Americana, Michx. American or Black Larch: Tamarack. Hack- matack. Abundant through the north half of the state, and common southeast to Wright, Hennepin and Ramsey counties ; rare farther southeast, as on Pine creek in Houston county, Winchell; absent southwestward. This tree occurs in swamps, which are generally frequent, varying in extent from afew rods to several miles. Mr. Nathan Butler states that such swamps, bearing tamarack but scarcely any other trees, occupy nearly the entire country between Red lake and the lake of the Woods; and Mr. G. M. Dawson and others give a similar description of the area crossed by the international boundary between the lake of the Woods and the Redriver valley. Tamarack also offen grows on drier, hard ground; sometimes, north of lake Superior, attaining a hight of 90 or 100 feet (but very slender, having a diameter of only about one foot ; valu- able for railroad ties), Clark. Its usual hight is from 20 to 40 feet. Watab river and township bear the name which the Chippewas give to the long threads obtained by splitting tamarack roots, used by themin sowing their birch canoes. Keating’s Narrative of Long’s Expedition, vol. ii, p. 73. THUYA (Thuja), Tourn. Argor VIT&é. T. occidentalis, L. American Arbor Vite. ‘White Cedar.’’ Common northeastward, forming almost impenetrable ‘“‘cedar swamps,” often attain- ing a large size, from 40 to 70 feet in hight, and from one to two or even three feet in diameter, Clark, Roberts; extending west to the south end of lake Winnipeg, Bell, the lake of the Woods and Roseau river, Red and Pemidjilakes, and tothe head of Straight river in northeastern Becker county, and south to the south shore of Mille Lacs and the mouth of Snake river. It also occurs very rarely farther southeast, as on Gwinn’s bluff in southeastern Winona county, Winchell. On the north shore of lake Superior, ‘‘not so common as inland, but maintains its hold upon life in the most unfavorable positions. Often the only representative of the vegetable kingdom on a bare rock in the lake, where its stem and branches plainly indieate the direction of the prevailing winds and waves.” Juni. This tree is the principal species upon a large area adjoining the Missis- sippi river in northern Aitkin county. Its wood is light and very durable, being espe- cially sought for fence and telegraph posts. It is often spiral-grained. JUNIPERUS, L. JUNIPER. - communis, L. Common Juniper. Throughout the state, but infrequent. Minnesota Point, near Duluth (plentiful), also near Minneapolis, Roberts; Wadena and Benton counties (rare), Upham; Sherburne 134 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. and Ramsey counties, Kelley; Hennepin county, Simmons; Goodhue county, Sandberg; southeastern Winona county, Winchell; Dodge county, Harrington; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; bluffs of the Cottonwood river, Juni. : J. communis, L., var. alpina, Gaud. Juniper. North shore of lake Superior, Juni; Taylor’s Falls, Miss Cathcart. North. J. Virginiana, L. Red Cedar. Red Savin. Rainy Lake river, Dawson; upper Mississippi (rare), Nicotlep, Garrison; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; bluffs of the Cottonwood river, Juni; at Redwood Falls. perhaps fur- nishing the name of the Redwood river. ‘Also see Cornus stolonifera.) Found scantily in exposed situations, as on the bluffs or shores of rivers and lakes, growing to be 10 to 25 feet high, in the greater part of the state ; most frequent in its southeast quarter ; absent, or rare, near its west side and north of lake Superior. J. Sabina, L., var. procumbens, Pursh. Savin. Juniper. * Lake of the Woods, Dawson; plentiful on dunes at Sand Hillriver, Gartield, Polk county, Upham; near Itasca lake, Garrison; Rice county, Sperry; bluffs of Le Sueur river, Leiberg; Olmsted county (rare), Harrington; the Big Woods, and Fillmore, Winona and Houston counties (rare), Winchell. North. TAXACE. Yew Faminy. TAXUS, Tourn. YEw. T, Canadensis, Willd. (T. baccata, L., var. Canadensis, Gray.) American Yew. Ground Hemlock. Abundant north of lake Superior, Juni, Roberts; common, or frequent, thence west and south to nearly the same limits as the pines, black spruce and balsam fir; near Lake City, Mrs. Ray. ARACEA. Arum Faminy. ARIS EMA, Martius. InpIAn Turnip. Dracon-Arum. A. triphyllum, Torr. (A. atrorubens, Blume. Bot. Gazette, ix, 114.) Indian Turnip. Jack-in-the-Pualpit. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. A. Dracontium, Schott. Green Dragon. Dragon-root. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Rare. Southeast. CALLA, L. Water AruM. CALLA. C, palustris, L. Water Arum. Wild Calla. Common in the north half of the state, and southeast to Minneapolis and Saint Paul; rare farther southeast, as near lake Pepiz, Miss Manning; absent southwest- ward. SYMPLOCARPUS, Salish. Skunk CABBAGE, S. foetidus, Salish. Skunk Cabbage. Chisago county, ete. (common), Upham; Stillwater, Miss Field; Saint Paul, Kelley; near Minnehaha falls, Roberts; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Winona county, Holzinger; New Ulm, Juni. [Hesper, Iowa, Mrs. Carter; lake Superior, Whitney.] STATE GEOLOGIST. 135 ACORUS, L. SWEET Fuac. CALAMUS. A. Calamus, L. Sweet-Flag. Calamus. Common, or frequent, throughout the state ; excepting perhaps southwestward, in which direction it extends at least to Redwood Falls, Miss Butler, and Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. LEMNACE. DucKkWEED FAMILY. LEMNA, L. Duckweep. Dvuck’s-MEaAT. L. trisulea, L. Duckweed. Duck’s-meat. Throughout the state. Minnesota river, Parry; Blue Earth county (flowering plen- tifully in 1882), Letberg; frequent in Martin county, and in Emmet county, Lowa, Cratty; Minneapolis, Arthur, Roberts; Taylor’s Falls, Mrs. Ray; Pembina, Chickering; Red river prairie and lake of the Woods, Dawson. L. minor, L. Duckweed. Duck’s-meat. Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, Arthur, Sim- mons; Duluth harbor (plentiful), Roberts; also, Red river prairie and lake of the Woods (common), Dawson. SPEIRODELA, Schleid. DuckwEED. DvucK’s-MEAT. S. polyrrhiza, Schleid. (Lemna polyrrhiza, L,) Duckweed. Duck’s-meat. Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; frequent in Martin county, and in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty; Minneapolis(abundant), Arthur, Upham; Saint Paul, Kelley; and northwest to the Saskatchewan river. WOLFETIA, Horkel, Schleid. WOLFFIA. W. Columbiana, Karsten. Wolffia. Found by Mr. Leiberg in a pond at the southwest edge of the village of South Bend, Blue Earth county ; plentiful, covering the surface to a depth of one or two inches in the summer ; often blown upon the shore in small ridges by storms ; slightly spreading to adjacent ponds; determined by Dr. Engelmann, who thinks that it is not a native of these northern latitudes, but has been probably brought by water-fowls. It appears to have become thoroughly acclimated in this locality. TYPHACEA. CatT-TAIL FAMILY. TY PHA, Tourn. Cat-TAIL FLaG. T. latifolia, L. Common Cat-tail. Reed-mace. Common throughout the state. SPARGANIUM, Tourn. BUR-REED. S. eurycarpum, Engelm. Bur-reed. Taroughout the state. Lake of the Woods, Dawson; Minneapolis (common), Roberts; West Saint Paul, Miss Butler; Wabasha, Gibson; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Redwood Falls, Pemberton; Emmet county, Lowa (rare), Cratty. S. simplex, Hudson. Bur-reed. Red river valley, at Pembina, Chickering; Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni; West Saint Paul, Miss Butler; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. 136 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. S. simplex, Hudson, var. Nuttallii, Gray. Bur-reed. St. Croix river, Parry. S. simplex, Hudson, var. androcladum, Gray. Bur-reed. Freeborn county, Upham. S. simplex, Hudson, var. angustifolium, Gray. Bur-reed. Lapham. North. [Isle Royale, Whitney. | S. minimum, Bauhin. Bur-reed. Brooks, St. Croix river, Parry; lake of the Woods, Dawson. [North of lake Super- ior, Agassiz; Isle Royale, Whitney. | North. NAIADACEA. PonvDWEED F'AMILy. NAIAS,L. Narap. N. flexilis, Rostk. & Schmidt. Naiad. Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; plentiful in Martin county and in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty; Minneapolis (abundant), Miss Butler. [Manitoba, Macoun.) ZANNICHELLIA, Micheli. HorNED PoNDWEED. Z. palustris, L. Horned Pondweed. Peat-bogs between Kasota and Mankato, Leiberg. Rare. POTAMOGETON, Tourn. PONDWEED. POTAMOGETON. P. natans, L. Pondweed. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. P. Claytonii, Tuckerman. Pondweed. Plentiful near Stewart river, north of lake Superior, Roberts. {P. rufescens, Schrader, will probably be found in northeastern Minnesota. | P. onchites, Tuckerm. Pondweed. Le Sueur river, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa (frequent), Cratty. South. P. amplifolius, Tuckerman. Pondweed. Plentiful in Devil’s Track lake, north of lake Superior, Roberts; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. P. gramineus, L., var. heterophyllus, Fries. Pondweed, Throughout the state. Abundantin Devil’s Track lake, Roberts; frequent in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. P. lucens, L. Pondweed. Throughout the state, butinfrequent. Lake Minnetonka, Roberts; White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Simmons; Stearns county, Campbell. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz; Manitoba, M acoun.] P. lucens, L., var. minor, Nolte. Pondweed. Lake Minnetonka, Herrick, Roberts. [P. prelongus, Wulfen., will doubtless be found in Minnesota. ] STATE GEOLOGIST. 137 P. Dllinoensis, Morong.* Pondweed. Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty, Arthur; doubtless also to be found in southern Min- nesota. P. perfoliatus, L. Pond weed. Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, Upham; Stearns county, Campbell; lake of the Woods, Dawson. P. perfoliatus, L., var. lanceolatus, Robbins. Pondweed. Also throughout the state. Lake Minnetonka, Arthur; frequent in Martin county, and in Emmet county, Iowa, Crotty. P. zosterzefolius, Schum. (P. compressus, Fries, not L.) Pondweed. Minneapolis, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg, and Martin county (frequent), Cratty, both determined by Rev. T. Morong. P. pauciflorus, Pursh. Pondweed. Minneapolis (common), Wiss Butler; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Blue Earth county, Leiberg, determined by Rev. IT. Morong; Emmet county, Iowa (frequent), Cratty. [North of lake Superior, A gassiz.] P. pusillus, L. Pondweed. Throughout the state. Lake of the Woods, Dawson; White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Simmons; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty, determined by Rev. T. Morong. P. pusillus, L., var. major, Fries. Pondweed. Martin county (frequent), Cratty, determined by Rev. T. Morong. P, pusillus, L., var. vulgaris, Fries. Pondweed. Lake Minnetonka (plentiful), Herrick, Roberts; Winona lake, Holzinger. P, pectinatus, L. Pondweed. Throughout the state. Mississippiriver near Saint Cloud, Campbell; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county (abundant), Cratty, determined by Rev. T. Morong. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz; James river, Dakota, Geyer. | ALISMACEA. WaverR-PLANTAIN FAMILY. TRIGLOCHIN, iL. Arrow-erass. (This genus and ScHEUCH- ZBRIA are included in the preceding order, NAIADACE&, by Watson in the Botany of California.) 5 *POTAMOGETON ILLINOENSIS, Morong. Stem stout, branching towards the sum- mit; floating leaves opposite, thick, coriaceous, oval or ovate, 2 to 3 inches long by 14% broad, 19- to 23-nerved, rounded or sub-cordate at base, and with a short blunt point at the apex, on short petioles; submersed leaves comparatively few, dark green, oblong- elliptical, acute at each end, usually ample (the largest nearly 8 inches long and 1% wide), entire, rarely mucronate, nearly or quite sessile, the uppermost opposite; stipules coarse, free, obtuse, strongly bicarinate, about 2 inches in length; peduncles often clustered at the summit of the stem, 2 to 4inches long, usually somewhat thickening upwards ; spikes about 2 inches long, densely flowered ; fruit roundish obovate, 1% to 2 lines long and 1 to 1% lines wide, 3-keeled on the back, the middle keel prominent and sometimes shouldered at the top, flattened and slightly impressed on the sides, obtuse or occasionally pointed at the base, the style short and nearly facial, the apex of the embryo pointing transversely inwards. Allied to P.lucens, L., in habit, but with larger fruit, and in foliage quite distinct. Merong in Botanical Gazette, vol. v, p. 50 (May, 1880). 138 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. T. palustre, L. Arrow-grass. Throughout the state. Peat-bogs between Kasota and Mankato (plentiful), Lei- berg; Red river valley, Scott. T. maritimum, L. Arrow-grass. Lapham. Stearns county, Campbell. [Sheyenne river and Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer. | North. T. maritimum, L., var. elatum, Gray. Arrow-grass. Duluth (common), and Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts; Chisago county, Upham; upper Minnesota river, Parry; also, peat-bogs between Kasota and Mankato (plentiful), Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. SCHEUCHZERIA, L. SCHEUCHZERIA. S. palustris, L. Scheuchzeria. St. Croix river, Parry; near Clearwater, Wright county, Mrs. Terry; Minneapolis, Kassube, (lake Calhoun) Miss Butler; Emmet county, Lowa (rare), Cratty. ALISMA, L . WarTer-PLANTAIN. A. Plantago, L. Water- Plantain. Common throughout the state. “Very variable as respects foliage, the forms being determined chiefly by the place of growth and not deserving to rank as varieties.”’ Wat- son, Botany of California. ECHINODORUS, Richard, Engelmann. «© EcHrnoporus. E. parvulus, Engelm. Echinodorus. Muddy marygins of ponds, St. Croix, Parry. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz.] SAGITTARIA, L. ARROW-HEAD. S. variabilis, Engelm. Common Arrow-head. Common (especially the var. hastata, Gray) throughout the state ; var. angustifolia, Gray, Minneapolis, Miss Butler. ‘‘This plant, so variable in foliage, and so abundant in distribution, furnishes an important article of native food in the tubers which beset its fibrous roots. These tubers (from the fact of their affording nourishment to the larger aquatic fowls which congregate in such abundance about the northwestern lakes) are called by the Chippewas, Wab-es-i-pin-ig, or swan potatoes, a name which has been naturally appropriated to several streams of this region, Wabesipinicon ; meaning, the abode of the swan potato. These tubers frequently attain the size of a small hen’s-egg, and are then eaten by the Indians, with whom they are a great favorite. In their raw state they contain a bitter, milky juice, but in boiling become sweet and palatable.” Parry. S. heterophylla, Pursh. Arrow-head. Upper Mississippi river, Houghton; Hennepin county, Roberts, Griswold; probably extending through the south half of the state. S. graminea, Michx. Arrow-head, Minneapolis, Kassube. South. S. cristata, Engelm.* Arrow-head. Emmet county, lowa, on the south boundary of Minnesota, Cratty; doubtless also in this state. * SAGITTARIA CRISTATA, Engelm. Flowers only of the lowest whorl fertile ; fruit- heads much larger thanin S. graminea ; achenia broad, with a conspicuous horizontal STATE GEOLOGIST. 139 HY DROCHARIDACEA. Frog’s-B1t FAmIzy. ANACHARIS, Richard. WaATER-WEED. A. Canadensis, Planchon. Water-weed. Common throughout the state. Duluth harbor (plentiful), and Minneapolis, Rob- erts; lake Minnetonka, Miss Butler; Winona lake, Holzinger; Blue Earth county, Lei- berg; plentifulin Martin county, and in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. This aquatic plant, common, but nowhere troublesome, in this its native country, having become naturalized in Europe, grows there more rankly, so as to become in many places a serious obstruction to river-navigation. Since 1836, when it first appeared in England and Ireiand, it has spread eastward upon the continent along the rivers of Belgium, Holland and Germany, and is now complained of at Riga in western Russia. Popwlar Science Monthly, vol. xix, p. 480 (July, 1881). VALLISNERIA, Micheli. TAPE-GRASS. HEL-GRASS. V. spiralis, L. Tape-grass: Hel-grass. With the preceding, in Duluth harbor (plentiful), and Minneapolis, Roberts, lake Calhoun) Miss Butler; Blue Earth county, Gedge, (Eagle lake) Leiberg; Redwood Falls, Miss Butler. ORCHIDACE. Orouis FAMILY. ORCHIS, L. ORCHIS. O. spectabilis, L. Showy Orchis. Duluth (frequent), and Saint Paul (rare), Miss Cathcart; Stearns county, Campbell; Fergus Falls, Leonard; Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts; Northfield, Chaney; Faribault, Miss Beane; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; frequent at Hesper, lowa, Mrs. Carter. O. rotundifolia, Pursh. (Habenaria rotundifolia, Richardson.) Orchis. Detroit, Becker county, Gedge. Rare. North. HABENARIA, Willd. REIN-ORCHIs. H. tridentata, Hook. Rein-Orchis. Lapham. Goodhue county, Sandberg. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz. | In- frequent. H. virescens, Spreng. Greenish Orchis. Lake City, Miss Manning; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Minneapolis, Roberts; Stearns county, Campbell; Detroit, Becker county, Gedge. Infrequent. Hi. viridis, R. Br., var. bracteata, Reich. — Bracted Green Orchis. Throughout the state. Carlton’s Peak, north of lake Superior, and also near Min- neapolis, Roberts; eastern border of Red river prairie, Dawson; Stearns county, Camp- bell; Jake Elmo, Washington county, Leonard; Blue Earth county, Letberg; Faribault, Miss Beane; Winona county, Holzinger. [Hesper, Mrs. Carter, and south to Council Bluffs, lowa, Geyer. | style, and crested back and sides. . . . NearS.graminea, Michx., and perhaps only a variety of it, although the only other Sagittaria with such crests to the acheniais S. natans, Michx. Further observations are needed to eventually place it correctly. Letter of Dr. Engelmann, dated March 15th, 1882, in Arthur’s Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, No. V. iw a= 140 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. il H. hyperborea, R. Br. Northern Green Orchis. Throughout the state. Lake Superior, Whitney; lake of the Woods, Dawson; De- troit, Becker county, Gedge; Stearns county, Camphell; Minneapolis (common), Rob- erts; Hesper, Iowa (rare), Mrs. Carter. H. dilatata, Gray. Rein-Orchis. Northern White Orchis. Lake Superior, Whitney; Detroit, Gedge; Minneapolis (common), Roberts; St, Croix, river, Parry. North. (H. rotundifolia, Richardson, is found to belong to the preceding genus, Orehis. | H. obtusata, Richardson. Rein-Orchis. Abundant north of lake Superior, Juni, Roberts. North. H. Hookeri, Torr. Small Two-leaved Orchis. Throughout the state. St. Croix river, Parry; Elk River, Sherburne county, Camp- bell; Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Winona county, Holzinger; Hesper, lowa, Mrs. Carter. {Lake Superior, Whitney; Manitoba, Macoun.] H. orbiculata, Torr. Large Round-leaved Orchis. North of lake Superior, Juni, Roberts; St. Louis river, Mrs. Herrick. Northeast. H. blephariglottis, Hook., var. holopetala, Gray. White Fringed- Orchis. Minnesota Point, near Duluth, Miss Catheart. Rare. H. leucophzea, Gray. Western Greenish Fringed-Orchis. Frequent in the south half of the state, extending north at least to Alexandria, rs. Terry, and Clay county, in the Red river valley, Upham. Sometimes almost pure white. It has spread widely in Martin county during the past six or seven years, being now very common in some parts of the county, Gedge. H. lacera, R. Br. Ragged Fringed-Orchis. Minneapolis, Roberts; Goodhue county, Sandberg. South. H. psycodes, Gray. Purple Fringed-Orchis. Frequent throughout the state. GOODYERA, R. Br. RaTTLESNAKE-PLANTAIN. G. repens, R. Br. Rattlesnake- Plantain. North of lake Superior (common), also at Minneapolis, Roberts; St Croix Falls, Miss Field. North. G. pubescens, R. Br. ~ Rattlesnake-Plantain. North of lake Superior, Juni; Taylor’s Falls, Miss Cathcart, Roberts; Clearwater, Wright county, Mrs. Terry; Cannon River Falls, Blake, Sandberg. G. Menziesii, Lindl. Rattlesnake- Plantain. Isle Royale, Dr. A. B. Lyons; doubtless also in Minnesota north of lake Superior. ‘ SPIRANTHES, Richard. LapDIEs’ TRESSES. S. latifolia, Torr. Ladies’ Tresses. Lapham, Hills of Zumbro river, Geyer. Rare. Southeast. S. Romanzoffiana, Chamisso. Ladies’ Tresses. North shore of lake Superior. Juni; Polk county, Upham; Clay county, Gedge; Stearns county, Campbell; Minneapolis, Roberts; Cottonwood county, Holzinger; peat- bog between Kasota and Mankato (very searce), Leiberg. North. S. cernua, Richard. Ladies’ Tresses. . Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state, and perhaps northward ; STATE GEOLOGIST. 141 lake Superior, Whitney, and lake of the Woods, Dawson; var. latifolia, Torr., hills of Zumbro river, Geyer. S. gracilis, Bigelow. Ladiés’ Tresses. Throughout the state, butinfrequent. Pine barrens, St. Croixriver, Parry; Stearns county, Campbell; Minneapolis, R. S. Williams, Roberts; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [Decorah, Lowa, Arthur; Nebraska, Aughey; Manitoba, Macoun.] LISTERA, R.Br. Twayeiape. L. cordata, R. Br. Twayblade. . Between lake Superior and the lake of the Woods, Macoun; Isle Royale, Dr. A. B. Lyons. North? L, convallarioides, Nutt. Twayblade. Also, between lake Superiorand the lake of the Woods, Macoun; Isle Royale, Dr. A. B, Lyons. North. ARETHUSA, Gronov. ARETHUSA. A. bulbosa, L. Ar thusa. Chisago county, Upham; Ramsey county (near lake Johanna), Roberts; Red Wing, Sandberg. Rare. North. POGONIA, Juss. PoGonra. P. ophioglossoides, Nutt. Pogonia. St. Croix river, Parry; Isanti county, Upham; Stearns county, Campbell; Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry, Kelley; Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts, Miss Butler. [P. pendula, Lindl., and P. verticillata, Nutt., should be looked for in this state. | CALOPOGON, BR. Br. CaLopocon. Grass PINK. C. pulchellus, R. Br. Calopogon. Grass Pink. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. CALYPSO, Salisb. CALYPSO. C. borealis, Salish. Calypso. Black Point, north shore of lake Superior, Roberts; Duluth, Miss Cathcart. Rare. North. oe MICROSTYLIS, Nutt. ADDER’s-MoutH. M. monophyllos, Lindl. Adder’s- Mouth. . Lapham. St. Croix river, Parry; Taylor’s Falls, Roberts. Rare. North. M. ophioglossoides, Nutt. Adder’s- Mouth. Itasca lake, Houghton; Mille Lacs, Campbell; St. Croix river, Parry; at bead of lake Pepin, Sandberg; Hesper, Iowa-(rare), Mrs. Carter. (Manitoba, Macoun. | LIPARIS, Richard. TWAYBLADE. L. liliifolia, Richard. Twayblade. Minneapolis (one mile west of city), Roberts; near Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry ; Good- hue county, Sandberg; Winona county, Holzinger; Hesper, lowa, Mrs. Carter. Rare. L. Leeselii, Richard. Twayblade. In tamarack swamps near Minneapolis, Roberts; Stearns county, Campbell. Rare. 142 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. CORALLORHIZA, Hailer. CoRAL-ROOT. C. innata, R. Br. Coral-root. : Stearns county, Campnell; along the northern boundary of Minnesota, Macoun. Throughout the state: rare southward, frequent northward. C. multiflora, Nutt. Coral-root. Hesper, Iowa, Mrs. Carter; Taylor’s Falls, Roberts; Stearns county, Campbell; Pembina, Havard; lake Superior, Whitney. Throughout the state, but infrequent. C. Macreei, Gray. Coral-root. Lapham, {Mackinaw (abundant), Whitney.] Rare in Minnesota. e APLECTRUM, Torrey. Purty-rooT. ADAM-AND-EVE. A. hiemale, Torr. Putty-root. Adam and Eve. St. Croix Falls, Miss Field; Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Hastings, Mrs. Ray; Fari- bault, Miss Beane; in woods at the head of Van Brunt slough, Mankato, Leiberg. {Man- itoba, Macoun.] Rare. CYPRIPEDIUM, L. Lapy's-SLIPPER. MoccasIN-FLOWER. C, arietinum, R. Br. Ram’s-head Lady’s-Slipper. Clearwater lake, in the northwest part of Wright county, Mrs. Terry; Stearns county, Campbell; Detroit, Becker county, Gedge. Rare. North. C. candidum, Muhl. Small White Lady’s-Slipper. Through the south half of the state, mostly infrequent and local. Winona county, Holzinger; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Cannon River Falls, Blake, Sandberg; Minne- apolis, Roberts, (lake Harriet) Mrs. Terry; Anoka county, also New Ulm, Juni; Fari- bault, Miss Beane; Nicollet county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa (plentiful), Cratty; extending north at least to Morrison county, Miss Babbitt, the upper Mississippi river, Garrison, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. C. parviflorum, Salisb. Smaller Yellow Lady’s-Slipper. Frequent throughout the state, excepting far southward. ©. pubescens, Willd. Larger Yellow Lady‘s-Slipper. Common, or frequent, threughout the state. C. spectabile, Swartz. Showy Lady’s-Slipper. Common, or frequent, often growing on dryish hard land, throughout the state; ex- cepting perhaps far northeastward, in which direction it extepds at least to the St. Louis river, Mrs. Herrick, the upper Mississippi river, Garrison, Detroit, Becker county (abundant), Gedge, and Pembina, Havard. Cc. acaule, Ait. Stemless Lady’s-Slipper. Frequent through the north half of the state ; extending south to Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart, Minneapolis (in tamarack swamps) Roberts, and Martin county, Gedge. AMARYLLIDACEA. AMARYLLIS F'AMILY. HYPOXYS, L. STAR-GRASS. H. erecta, L. Star-grass, Common through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley; extend- ing northeast to the upper Mississippi river. \ STATE GEOLOGIST. 1438 HAMODORACE A. Bioopwort F amity. ALETRIS, L. Conic-RooT. STAR-GRASS. A. farinosa, L. Colic-root. Star-grass. Lapham. Rare. Southeast. IRIDACEA. Iris FAMIty. IRIS, Tourn. FLoWeR-DE-Lucsk. IRIs. I. versicolor, L. Larger Blue Flag. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. SISYRINCHIUM, L. Brus-ryep Grass. S. angustifolium, Miller. (S. Bermudiana, J.., in part; see American Nat- uralist, vol. xviii, pp. 623-5; June, 1884.) Blue-eyed Grass. This variable species (in the varieties anceps and mucronatum, with intermediate forms) is found throughout the state, being usually abundant in all the prairie region. The var. albidum occurs infrequently at Marine, Washington county, Miss Field, Min- neapolis, Roberts, Kassube, and southwestward. DIOSCOREACE At. Yam Famity. DIOSCOREA, Plumier. Yam. D. villosa, L. Wild Yam-root. Common, or frequent, through the south part of thestate ; extending north to Saint Paul, Roberts, Minneapolis, Kassube, (lake Calhoun) W.H. Hatch, Anoka county, Juni, and the north side of Snake river east of Chengwatana, Pine county, Upham. SMILACE A. SMILAX FAMILY. SMILAX, Tourn. GREENBRIER. CATBRIER. S. rotundifolia, L. Common Greenbrier. Lake Superior to the Mississippi, Houghton; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; Anoka county, Juni; Minneapolis (common), Roberts, Upham; Minnesota river, Parry; Fari- bault, Miss Beane; Goodhue county, Sandberg; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Houston eounty, Winchell. S. hispida, Muhl. Greenbrier. Catbrier. Minnesota river, Parry; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; frequent in Martin county, BG in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty; Kanabec county, Upham. S. herbacea, L. Carrion-F lower. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. S. herbacea, L., var. pulverulenta, Gray. Carrion-F lower. Vicinity of Hesper, lowa, on the southern border of Houston and Fillmore counties, Mrs. Carter; Lake City, Mrs. Ray; Faribault, Miss Beane. 144 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. LILIACEA. Linty Famity. TRILLIUM,L. Tritium. Tares-LeEavep NigHTsHADE. WaAKE- Rosin. T. sessile, L. Trillium. Three-leaved Nightshade. Wake-Robin. Saint Paul, Miss Catheart. Southeast. T. recurvatum, Beck. Trillium. Thre-leaved Nightshade. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Southeast, T. grandiflorum, Salisb, Large White Trillium or Wake-Robin. Frequent northward ; extending southeast to lake Pepin, Miss Manning, North- field, Rice county, Chaney, and Blue Earth county, Gedge. T. erectum,L. — Purple Trillium or Birthroot. Bath Flower. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Minneapolis, Simmons. Rare. (Watson’s Revision of the North American Liliacew makes this name include also the two following, which, however, are retained here asin Gray’s Manual.) ‘ T. erectum, L., var, album, Pursh. © Trillium. Birthroot. Winona, Holzinger; Marine, Washington county, Miss Field; Stearns county, Gar- rison, Rare. T. erectum, L., var. declinatum, Gray. Trillium. Birthroot. Frequent, in some localities plentiful, throughout the state. T. cernuum, L. Nodding Trillium or Wake-Robin, Common, or frequent, throughout most of the state; extending north at least to Grand Marais, Roberts, and the upper Mississippi river, Garrison; and west to Fergus Falls, Leonard, and Redwood Falls, Pemberton. T. nivale, Riddell. Dwarf White Trilium. Snowy Trillium. Winona, Holzinger; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; near South Beud, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. Rare. South. MEDEOLA, Gronov. INDIAN CUCUMBER-ROOT. M. Virginiana, L. Indian Cucumber-root. Lapham.: Near Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry; Lake City, Mrs. Ray. Infrequent. Southeast. MELANTHIUM, L. MELANTHIUM. M. Virginicum, L. Bunch-flower. Minneapolis (near lake Calhoun), Mrs. Terry. Rare, Southeast. ZYGADENUS, Michx. ZYGADENE. Z. elegans, Pursh. (Z. glaucus, Nutt.) | Zygadene. ‘‘Alkali-Grass.”’ Common, often abundant, throughout the west part of the state ; frequent eastward to the upper Mississippi river, Sauk Center, and Nicollet and Steele counties; rare farther east in Benton county, at Minneapolis, Castle Rock, Dakota county, Cannon River Falls, Goodhue county, and lake Pepin. VERATRUM, Tourn. FauLszE HELLEBORE. V. viride, Ait. American White Hellebore. Indian Poke. Stearns county, Garrison. Infrequent. North. : : : | : : net a STATE GEOLOGIST. 145 TOFIELDIA, Hudson. FatsE ASPHODEL. T. palustris, Hudson. False Asphodel. Isle Royale and Thunder bay ; doubtless also on the north shore of lake Superior in Minnesota. T. glutinosa, Willd. False Asphodel. Stillwater, Parry; Minneapolis, Roberts, Miss Butler; Fergus Falls, Leonard; com- mon in the Red river valley, Upham. UVULARIA, L. BELLWORT, U.grandiflora, Smith. Large-flowered Bellwort. Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley, U. perfoliata, L. Mealy Bellwort. Frequent in the south half of the state ; extending north at least to St. Croix Falls, Miss Field, Stearns county, Campbell, and the Sisseton Agency, Dakota, Upham. OAKESIA, Watson. BrEtuwort. Oaxasta. O. sessilifolia, Watson. (Uvularia sessilifolia, L.) Sessile-leaved Bellwort. Throughout the state. Morrison county, Miss Babbitt; Stearns county, Campbell; Fergus Falls, Leonard; Anoka county, etc., Upham; Minneapolis, Twining, Roberts; Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Northfield, Rice county, Chaney. [Manitoba, Macoun; Nebraska, Aughey.] STREPTOPUS » Michx. TWISTED-STALK. S. amplexifolius, DC. Twisted-Stalk. North of lake Superior, Juni; Taylor’s Falls, Miss Cathcart; bluffs near (south of) Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry. Rare. North. S. roseus, Michx. Twisted-Stalk. Common north of lake Superior, Roberts; Benton county, Upham; blufis south of Saint Paul, Mrs. Terry. North. CLINTONIA, Raf. CLINTONIA. C. borealis, Raf. Northern Clintonia. Abundant northeastward; extending west to the Winnipeg valley, Watson, the sources of the Mississippi, Houghton, and Wadena county. Upham; and south to Kan- abee eounty (com mon), Stearns county, Campbell, Minneapolis (1are), Roberts, Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart, and the Wisconsin side of lake Pepin, Mrs. Ray. SMILACINA, Desf. Fase SoLomon’s SEAL. S. racemosa, Desf. False Spikenard. False Solomon’s Seal. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. S. stellata, Desf. False Solomon’s Seal. Also common, or frequent, throughout the state. S. trifolia, Desf. Three-leaved False Sclomon’s Seal. Frequent through the north half of the state; extending south atleast to Minne- apolis, Roberts, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. MATANTHEMUM, Weber. FausE SOLOMON’s SEal. M. Canadense, Desf. (Smilacina bifolia, Ker., var. Canadensis, (tray.) Two- leaved False Solomon’s Seal. Common throughout the state. 10F 146 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. POLYGONATUM, Tourn. Sotomon’s SEAL. P. biflorum, Ell, Smaller Solomon’s Seal. Frequent, occasionally common, throughout most of the state ; extending north to lake Superior, Whitney, and Pembina, Havard. P. giganteum, Dietrich. Great Solomon’s Seal. Frequent, or common, throughout the state. (Mr. Lewis Foote remarks that these species are not separable in their varying forms, but seem to constitute a single poly- morphous species.) ASPARAGUS, L. ASPARAGUS. A. officinalis, L. Garden Asparagus. Adventive : Minneapolis; Cannon River Falls; lake Pepin; Blue Earth county; New Ulm. LILIUM, L. Liny. L. Philadelphicum, L. Wild Orange-red Lily. Generally common, or frequent, throughout the state ; especially in Sherburne and Todd counties, in the Red river valley, and thence south to Iowa. L. Canadense, L. Nodding Wild Yellow Lily. Common throughout the east half of the state ; less frequent in the Red river valley ; rare southwestward. L, superbum, L. Turk’s-cap Lily. ‘* Wild Tiger-Lily.”’ Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Minneapolis, Twining, Simmons; Excelsior, Hen- nepin county, Mrs. Terry; Nicollet county, Aiton; Martin county, Gedge; Cannon River Falls, Blake, Sandberg ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning ; Hesper, Iowa, Mrs. Carter. Infrequent. South. ERYTHRONIUM, L. ADDER’s-TonauE. Do«’s-TrooTH VIOLET. E. Americanum, Smith. Yellow Adder’s-tongue or Dog’s-tooth Violet. Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart; Lake City, Mrs. Ray; Winona, Holzinger; plentiful lo- cally near Hesper,lowa, Mrs. Carter; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Lake Superior, Whitney; Nebraska, Aughey. | Infrequent. East and south. E. albidum, Nutt. White Adder’s-tongue or Dog’s-tooth Violet. Common, often abundant, southeastward ; Jess frequent, or rare, southwestward; extending north to St. Croix Falls, Miss Field, Stearns county, Campbell, aud Brown county, Juni. E. propullans, Gray.* Adder’s-tongue. Dog’s- tooth Violet. Faribault (abundant), Miss Beane ; described and figured by Professor Gray in the American Naturalist, vol. v, pp. 298-300, July, 1871, from specimens ‘‘collected at Fari- bault, Minnesota, by Mrs. Mary B. Hedges, the teacher ot botany in St. Mary’s Hall.’’ *ERYTHRONIUM PROPULLANS, Gray. The flower is muchsmaller than that of any other known species, being barely half an inch long; and its color,a bright pink or rose, like that of the European E. Dens-Canis, reflects the meaning of the generic name (viz., red), which is lost to us in our two familiar Adder-tongues, one with yel- low, the other with white, blossoms. The most singular peculiarity of the new species is found in the way in which the bulb propagates. In E. Dens-Canis new bulbs are produced directly from the side of the old one, on which they are sessile, so that the plant as it multiplies forms closeclumps. In our E. Americanum long and slender off- shoots, or subterranean runners, proceed from the base of the parent bulb and develop the new bulb at their distant apex. Our western E, albidum does not differ in this re- spect. In the new species an offshoot springs from the ascending slender stem, or sub- * STATE GEOLOGIST. 147 CAMASSTA, Hindl. QuamasuH. C. Fraseri, Torr. (Scilla Fraseri, Gray.) Eastern Quamash. Wald Hya- cinth. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county, Cratty. South. ALLIUM, L. Onron. GARLIC, A. tricoccum, Ait. Wild Leek. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far northward; but mostly infrequent or rare. Minnesota and St. Croix rivers, Parry; upper Mississippiriver, Garrison; Fer- gus Falls, Leonard; Minneapolis, W. H. Hatch, Roberts; Goodhue county, Sandberg; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; New Ulm, Juni; Martin and Nobles counties, Gedge. {Em- met county, lowa (very rare), Cratty ; lake Superior, Whitney. | A. cernuum, Roth. Wild Onion. Common throughout the prairie portion of the state ; also found at the lake of the Woods, Dawson. (The umbel is reflexed until flowering, but then usually becomes erect.) A, stellatum, Fras. Wild Onion. Upper Minnesota river, Geyer; Tracy, Lyon ceunty, Gedge; Minneapolis, Griswold; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Stearns county, Garrison; Alexandria, Mrs. Terry. Rare. A. reticulatum, Fras.* = Wild Onion. Red river valley,Scott, determined by Mr. Sereno Watson. West. A.Schoenoprasum,L. Chives. Northeastward, Clark; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; upper Mississippi river, Gar- rison. ‘Manitoba, Macoun.] North. A. Canadense, Kalm. Wild Garlic. Common or frequent, through the south part of the state ; extending west to Wor- thington, Foote, and Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett, and north to Minneapolis and Big Stone lake, Upham. JUNCACEA. RusH Famity. LUZULA, DC. Woop-RusuH. L. pilosa, Willd. Wood-Rush. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. |Manitoba, Macoun.] Probably common northward. terranean sheathed portion of the scape (which is commonly five or six inches long), remote from the parent bulb, usually about mid-way between it and the bases or ap- parent insertion of the pair of leaves: this lateral offshoot grows downward, some- times lengthening as in the foregoing species, sometimes remaining short, and its apex dilates into the new bulb. .. . Scape bulbiferous from its sheathed portion below the developed leaves ; these oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly mottled ; perianth rose-purpleor pink (half an inch long); the segments acute, all with a yellow spot but plane at the base, the inner like the outer destitute of either groove or tootk-like appen- dages, but a little more narrowed at base; anthers merely oblong; style hardly at all narrowed downward, entire, the small stigma even barely three-lobed; ovules few (4to6)in each cell. Grayin American Naturalist, vol. v. *ALLIUM RETICULATUM, Fras. Coats densely fibrous ; scape 3 to 8 inches high, sub- terete ; leaves very narrowly linear, elongated ; spathe usually 2-valved ; umbel many- flowered, spreading : pedicels usually short (2 to 6 lines long) ; stamens and style shorter than the usually acute (3 to 4 lines long) white or slightly pinkish sepals; crest mostly short. Watson’s Revision of Allium in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel, and his Revision of the North American Liliacew, Proc. Amer, Acad., xiv. 148 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. L. spadicea, DC., var. melanocarpa, Meyer. (L. parviflora, Desv., var. melanocarpa, Gray.) Wood-Rush. Frequent along the northern boundary of Minnesota, Macown. L. campestris, DC. Wood-Rush. Throughout the state. Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Anoka county, ete. Upham; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Emmet county, lowa (very rare), Cratty, JUNCUS, L. RusH. Boe-Rusu. J. effusus, L. Common or Soft Rush. Throughout the state, Lapham. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz; Manitoba, Macoun.]| J. filiformis, L. Bog- Rush. Lapnam. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [Manitoba, Macoun; Nebraska, Aughey.] Throughout the state, chiefly northward. J. Balticus, Dethard. Bog Rush. Lapham. Pembina, Chickering ; Red river country generally, Dawson. (North of lake Superior, Agassiz ; Emmet county, lowa (rare), Cratty.] Throughout the state, chiefly northward. J. Balticus, Dethard, var. montanus, Engelm.* Bog-Rush. Lake of the Woods, Dawson, Macoun. West. J. bufonius, L. Bog-Rush. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning; lake of the Woods, Macouwn. [James river, Dakota, Geyer. | Infrequent. [J. stygius, L., and J. Gerardi, Loisel, should be looked for in Minnesota north of lake Superior.] J.tenuis, Willd. Bog-Rush. Common, or abundant, throughout the state. J. tenuis, Willd., var congestus, Engelm. Bog- Rush. Blue Earth county, Leiberg, determined by Watson. Southwest. {Branches contracted into a head, and flowers darker-colored. Engelmann, Trans. Acai. Sci, Saint Louis, vol. ii.] J. Vaseyi, Engelm. Vasey’s Bog-Rush. Steele county, Upham; lake Superior and Manitoba, Macoun; probably occurring throughout Minnesota. J. pelocarpus, E. Meyer: Bog-Rush. Lapham. St. Croix river, Parry ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning. J, alpinus, Villars, var. insignis, Fries. Bog-Rush. North shore of lake Superior, Juni; lake of the Woods, Dawson, Macoun. North. J. acuminatus, Michx., var. legitimus, Engelm. Bog- Rush, Lapham, [North of lake Superior, Agassiz; Manitoba, Macoun; Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer.] Throughout the state. * JUNCUS BALTICUS, Dethard, var. MONTANUS, Engelmann. Sepals nearly of the same length, the minor ones sometimes more obtuse; anthers four times longer than the filament ; capsule ovate-pyramidal, angled, beaked ; seeds smaller, narrower and longer pointed than in the easternform. Watson’s Rep. in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel, : STATE GEOLOGIST. 149 J.nodosus, L. Bog-Rush. Common throughout the state. J. nodosus, L., var. megacephalus, Torr. Bog-Rush. Common in Martin county, and in Emmet county, lowa, Cratty; Manitoba, Macown; probably throughout the state. . J. Canadensis, J. Gay, var. longicaudatus, Engelm. Bog-Rush. Minneapolis. Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Through the south part of the state. J. Canadensis, J. Gay, var. coarctatus, Engelm. Bog-Rush. North of lake Superior, Juni. [Manitoba, Macoun.] North. PONTEDERIACEA. PICKEREL-WEED FAmILy. PONTEDERIA, L. PICKEREL- WEED. P. cordata, L. Pickerel- Weed. Lake Pepin, Miss Manning ; White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Simmons, Kelley; lake Minnetonka, aisoin Douglas county, Mrs, Terry; pond in section 23, Burns, Anoka county, Roberts; Stearns county, Campbell. Infrequent. SCHOLLERA, Scbreber. WATER STAR-GRASS. S. graminifolia, Willd. Water Star-grass. White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Simmons; lake Minnetonka, Roberts, Miss Butler; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. South. COMMELYNACEA. .SPIDERWORT em TRADESCANTIA, L. Sprperwort. TT, Virginica, L. Common Spiderwort. Common, often abundant, through the south half of the state ; extending northeast to the upper Mississippi river, and north tolake Winnipeg, Watson. Southwestward the flowers are often seen varying from the ordinary blue to purple and pink. XYRIDACEA. YELLOW-EYED-GRASS FAMILY. XYRIS, L. YELLOW-EYED GRASS- X. flexuosa, Muhl. Yellow-eyed Grass. Sandy lake, about three miles north of East Minneapolis, Roberts; also collected near Minneapolis by Mr. Kassube; White Bear, Ramsey county, Miss Field. Rare. ERIOCAULONACEA. Prezewort FAmity. ERIOCAULON, L. PIPEWORT. EK. septangulare, With. Pipewort. Lake Agnes, Alexandria, Douglas county, Mrs. Terry. Rare. 150 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. CYPERACEA). SEDGE FAmILy. CYPERUS, L. GALINGALE. C. diandrus, Torr., var. castaneus, Torr. (C. rivularis, Kunth.) Galin- gale. ' Common through the south half of the state ; extending north at teast to the upper Mississippi river, Garrison. C. erythrorrhizos, Muhl. Galingale. Lapham. [In Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska. ] Infrequent. South, C. aristatus, Rottb. (C. inflexus, Muhl.) Galingale. St. Croix river, Parry; Minneapolis, Kassube, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macoun, (lake Winnipeg) Watson; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty.] Throughout the state. C. esculentus, L. (C. phymatodes, Muhl.) Galingale. Nut-Grass. Lapham, Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Cannon River Falls. Blake, Sandberg; Minneapolis, Simmons. South. C. strigosus, L. Galingale. Common throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. (Specimens apparently referable to this species, collected by Mr. Simmons near lake Calhoun, in Minneapolis, have only 8- to 12-flowered spikes, scarcely a half inch long, arranged in densely crowded spicate clusters, the lower portions of which are sometimes compound.) ©. Michauxianus, Schultes. Galignale. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Probably frequent, or common, through the south part of the state. C. Schweinitzii, Torr. Galingale. Yhroughouf the south half of the state and in the Red river valley. Sandy ridges, St. Croix river, Parry; Minneapolis (common), Kassube, Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Emmet county, Lowa (very rare) Cratty; Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer.] C. filiculmis, Vahl. Galingale. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Upper Mississippi river, Houghton; Minnesota river, Parry; Minneapolis, Kassube, Simmons, Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macoun.] DULICHIUM, Richard. DULICHIUM. D. spathaceum, Pers. Dulichium. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, HEMICARPHA, Nees. HEMICARPHA. H. subsquarrosa, Nees. Hemicarpha. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, plentiful beside railroad near the University, Arthur, and near lake Calhoun, Simmons; probably frequent through the south half of the state. ELEOCHARIS, R. Br. SrrkE-Rusu. E. obtusa, Schultes. Spike-Rush. Common through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley. E. palustris, R, Br. Spike-Rush. Common throughout the state. STATE GEOLOGIST. 151 E. palustris, R. Br., var. glaucescens, Gray. Spike- Rush. Minneapolis, Kassube. E. compressa, Sullivant. Spike-Rush. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty.] South. E. intermedia, Schultes. Spike-Rush. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Probably throughout the state. KE. tenuis, Schultes. | Spike-rush. Lapham. Blue Earth county (frequent in peat-bogs), Leiberg. [Devil’s lake, Dakota, Geyer.] E. acicularis, R. Br. Spike-Rush. Common throughout the state. ‘ E. Wolfii,* Gray. | Wolf’s Spike-Rush, Collected by Mr. R.TI. Cratty on wet prairies in Emmet county, Iowa, adjoining the south line of Martin and Jackson counties in Minnesota, where it may also be confi- dently looked for ; determined by Mr. William Boots. E. pauciflora, Watson. (Scirpus pauciflorus, Lightfoot.) Spike-Rush. Lake Superior and lake of,the Woods, Macoun. North. SCIRPUS, L. Butrusg or Cius-Rusx. S. czespitosus, L. Bulrush or Club-Rush. North and northwest of lake Superior, Macown; doubtless in northern Minnesota. S. pungens, Vahl. Bulrush. Common throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. S. Torreyi, Olney. Torrey’s Bulrush. Lapham. Infrequent. S. lacustris, L. (8S. validus, Vahl.) Great Bulrush. ‘* Black Rush.”’ [‘‘Tule’’ in California (S. lacustris, L., var. occidentalis, Watson). | Abundant throughout the state. ‘“‘In common use among the Indians for making mats.” Parry. S. debilis, Pursh. —_ Bulrush. Lapham. [Also in the Wisconsin catalogue, probably on Dr. Lapham’s authority ; and in Nebraska, Aughey.] [S. maritimus, L., was collected by Geyer at Devil’s lake and on the Sheyenne and James rivers, in Dakota. It will probably be found in the Red river valley in Minnesota. ] S. fluviatilis, Gray. River Club-Rush. Through the south half of the state, and in the Red river valley. Minneapolis, Roberts; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, lowa (common), Cratty; Pembina, Chickering, *ELEOCHARIS WOLFII, Gray. Rhizomes very small, creeping, perennial, forming small seattered tufts; culm a foot high, slender, pale-glaucescent, striate, two-edged, one side flat, the other convex ; sheath obliquely truncate, hyaline above : spike ovate - oblong, acute; scales oblong-ovate, obtuse, scarious, pale purple; style 3-parted ; achenium pyriform, shining, having about 9 nearly equidistant obtuse ribs, with trans- verse wrinkles between; tubercle small, depressed, truneate, more or less apiculate ; bristles of the perigynium [always?] none.—[First known from Illinois.] The spike, as to form and imbrication of the scales, is much as in E. tenuis and EF. aeicularis, etc. ; but the achenium, with its several longitudinal ribs and delicate transverse lineation, is upon the plan of E. acicularis. This renders the species a very peculiar and distinct one. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad., vol. x, p.77, as translated by Arthur, Contributions to the Flora of fowa, No. VI. 152 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. S. sylvaticus, L., var. digynus, Boeck, (S. microcarpus, Presl.) Bulrush. Lapham. Pine county, ete., Upham. S. atrovirens, Muhl. Bulrush. Common throughout the state. (Mr. Leiberg reports in Blue Earth county, besides the type, a variety with the heads less densely clustered than usual, forming a compound panicle.) S. polyphyllus, Vahl. Bulrush. Isanti county, Upham. South. S. lineatus, Michx. Bulrush. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, Simmons. South. S. Eriophorum, Michx,. Wool-Grass. Frequent throughout the state, excepting perhaps southwestward. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, Simmons, Kassube; Todd county, etc., Upham; lake of the Woods, Dawson, Macoun. [North of lake Superior, Agassiz.] Z ERIOPHORUM, L. Corron-GRass. E. alpinum, L. Alpine Cotton-Grass, North of lake Superior, Juni. E. vaginatum, L. Sheathed Cotton-Grass. Throughout the state, excepting far southward. Blue Earth eounty, Leiberg; Min- neapolis, Kassube; Anoka county, Juni; Chisago county (frequent), Upham: [Manitoba, Macoun. | (E. Virginicum, L., doubtless will be found in this state, but has not yet been re- ported. It occurs in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Manitoba. ] E. polystachyum, L. Many-stemmed Cotton-Grass. Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state, and perhaps farther north. Anoka county, Juni; Minneapolis, Herrick, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, lowa (common), Cratty. It has been noted in its var. ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Gray, at Minneapolis, Kassube, and in Steele county, Upham. E. polystachyum, L., var. latifolium, Gray. Cotton-Grass. Minneapolis, Upham; and probably extending, with the var. angustifolium, through the south half of the state. E. gracile, Koch, var. paucinervium, Engelm. Graceful Cotton-Grass. Throughout the state. Chisago county (frequent), and Sherburne county, Upham; Minneapolis, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macoun; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty.| FIMBRISTYLIS, Vahl. FIMBRISTYLIS. F, capillaris, Gray. Fimbristylis. Lapham. Infrequent. South. RHYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. BEAK-RusH. R. alba, Vahl. Beak-Rush. Lapham. Infrequent. South. R. capillacea, Torr. Beak-Rush. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Infrequent. South. (Cladium mariscoides, Torr., should be looked for in southern Minnesota. | STATE GEOLOGIST. 158 SCLERIA, L. Nut-RusnH. S. triglomerata, Michx. Nut-Rush. Lapham. Infrequent. South. S. verticillata, Muhl. Nut-Rush. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Rare. South. CAREX, L. SEDGE. C. scirpoidea, Michx. Sedge. Port Arthur, and “northwest angle” of the lake of the Woods, Macoun. North. C. polytrichoides, Muhl. Sedge. Little Marais, lake Superior, Juni. Probably common throughout the state . C. Backii, Boott. Back’s Sedze. Minneapolis, Juni. North. ©. siccata, Dew. Sedge. Throughout the state, but infrequent. Lapham. Minneapolis, Kassube; Emmet county, Lowa (very rare), Cratty. C. disticha, Huds. Sedge. Throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Emmet county, lowa(common) Cratty. ©. teretiuscula, Good. Sedge, Throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg . C. teretiuscula, Good., var. ramosa, Boott.* Sedge. Emmet county, Lowa (frequent), Cratty; doubtless also in Minnesota. C. vulpinoidea, Michx. Sedge. _ Common throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni; Blue Earth eounty, Leiberg- common in Martin county, and in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. C. crus-corvi, Shuttleworth. Sedge. Blue Earth county, Letberg. South. C. stipata, Muhl. Sedge, Common throughout the state. Moose Lake, Carlton county, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. conjuncta, Boott. Sedge. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube. Southeast. C. Douglasii, Boott.+ Douglas’s Sedge. Red river (open prairie); “this is the first Carex to appear in flower, and occurs very abundantly all over the prairie of the Red river,’’ Dawson, Macoun, West. *CAREX TERETIUSCULA, Good., var. RAMOSA, Boott. (C. prairiea, Dew.) Spike below branched ; spikelets ovate, sessile, 5to 7 on a branch ; perigynium ovate-lanceolate, convex both sides, scabrous on the margin, slightly bifid, smaller than the ovate-lance- Olate glume ; stem 2 to 3 feet high, leafy towards the base. Wood’s Class-Book. +CAREX DOUGLASII, Boott. Spike dicecious, with about twelve, sometimes more, ovate spikelets, the upper closely aggregated, the lower occasionally remote and com- pound ; bracts sometimes setaceous, broad at base, sometimes scale-like and mucro- nate ; style exserted ; stigmas 2, very long; perigynium elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, tapering to a long serrated bifid beak, shorter than the lanceolate acute scale ; ache- nium orbicular. Root creeping ; culm 6 to 12inches high. Olney in Bot. Rep. of King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. 154 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ©. marcida, Boott.* Sedge. Red river (open prairie swamp), Dawson, Macoun. West. C. cephaloidea, Boott.. Sedge. . Throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Frequent in Martin county, and in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty; swamps, ‘northwest angle” of lake of the Woods, Macoun. C. cephalophora, Mubhl. Sedge. Common, or frequent, through the south part of the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Cc. Muhlenbergii, Schk. Sedge. Lapham. Chaska, Carver county, Juni. Rare. South. C. rosea, Schk. Sedge. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. Redriver (swamp), Dawson, Macoun; Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Hesper, Iowa (frequent), Mrs. Carter; Martin county, and Emmet county, Iowa (common), Cratty. C. chordorhiza, Ehbrh. Sedge. Throughout the state, but infrequent. [North of lake Superior (at Fort William), Macoun; Emmet county, Iowa, Arthur.] ©. tenella, Schk. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting far southward. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube. C. trisperma, Dew. Sedge. Range like the last. Put in bay, lake Superior, Juni. Cc. tenuiflora, Wahl. Sedge, Range like the two preceding. Minneapolis, Juni, Herrick. C. canescens, L. Sedge. Throughout the state : common northward, Jess frequent southward. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. canescens, L., var. alpicola, Wahl, (var. vitilis, Carey.) Sedge. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni. North. C. arcta, Boott.t Sedge. Lake Superior, Rainy lake, and lake of the Woods, Richardson, Boott. North. *CAREX MARCIDA, Boott. Spike oblong, pale, composed of numerous small ovate aggregated androgynous spikelets, staminate at top, the lower spikelets compound ; stigmas 2; perigynium tawny, suborbicular, or ovate tapering to a bifid beak, plane- convex, ner ved, winged, the upper margins serrated, short-stipitate, nearly equal to the acute ovate scale, which is of a pale straw-color, with a white membranous margin; achenium tawny, lenticular, contracted at base. Culm 1 to 2 feet high, rigid; leaves broad, linear, erect. Olney in Bot. Rep. of King’s Expl, of the Fortieth Parallel. +CAREX ARCTA, Boott. Spike oblong, capitate, pale, of 8 to 14 spikelets, which are oblong and obtuse, androgynous, at the base sparingly staminate, many-flowered, closely crowded, the lower bracteate ; bracts bristle-shaped, dilated at the base, longer than the spikelets ; stigmas 2; perigynia ovate, acuminate-beaked, with the minute orifice emarginate and deeply cleft on the outer side, serrate above on the sharp mar- gins, on the outer side slightly nerved, on the inner more sparingly or obsoletely nerved, spreading, pale-green, at length becoming rusty above, membranaceous, at the base thickly spongy ; longer than (and as broad as) the scale, which is ovate, acute and mucronulate, whitish or rusty-colored, with a greenish margin and a green mid-nerve. Culm somewhat less than a foot high, sharply triangular, rather stout, upwardly roughish, leaved at the base. Leaves 1 to 1% lines wide, flat, with a prolonged-tapering tip, longer (often much) than the culm. Bracts at their base broadly dilated, bristle- STATE GEOLOGIST. 155 C. Deweyana, Schw. Sedge. Throughout the state. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni; Spirit Lake, lowa, Arthur. Cc. echinata, Murr. (C. stellulata, Good.) Sedge. Throughout the state. Northoflake Superior, Agassiz; Manitoba, Macoun; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty, Arthur. C. echinata, Murr., var. microcarpa, Boeck. (C: stellulata, Good., var. scirpoides, Carey.) Sedge. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Emmet county, lowa (frequent), Cratty. C. arida, Schw, & Torr. Sedge. Throughout the state, but infrequent. [Near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Macoun; upper Missouri river, Geyer.] C. scoparia, Schk. Sedge. Common throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. lagopodioides, Schk. Sedge. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. Lapham. Savannah river, Hough- ton; Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni. ©, cristata, Schw. Sedge, Throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Blue Earth county, Lei- berg; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. C. adusta, Boott. Sedge. Throughout the state, butrare. Redriver valley, at Pembina, Dawson; Minneapolis, Kassube. C. straminea, Schk. (Including vars. typica, tenera, aperta and festucacea, Boott.) Sedge. Throughout the state. St. Louis river, Houghton; Pembina, Dawson; Minneapolis, Kassube; Blue Earth County, Leiberg. C. straminea, Schk,, var. Crawei, Boott. (vars. hyalinaand Meadii, Boott.) Sedge. Common in Emmet county, Iowa (on the southern boundary of Minnesota), Cratty. ©. vulgaris, Fries. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Minneapolis, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. aquatilis, Wahl. Sedge. Range like the last. Lapham. Minneapolis, also New Ulm, Juni. C. stricta, Lam. (Se Botanical Gazette for Sept., 1884.) Sedge. Common throughout the state. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni; Red river, Dawson, Macoun; Minneapolis, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; plentiful in Emmet county, Llowa,, Cratty. C. lenticularis, Michx. Sedge. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni. North. shaped, the lower 5 or 6 elongated, the lowest hardly equaling the spike. Spike 10 to 16 lines long, 3 to 6 lines broad. Spikelets 5 lines long, 2 to 2% lines broad, dense _ flowered, at the base sparingly staminate but never narrowed below, all crowded. Seales similar. Perigynium 1.3 to 1.4 lines long, 0.6 line broad. Achenium 0.7 line long, 0.5 line broad, suborbicular, prolonged at the base, plano-convex, pale ; the base of the style enlarged.—It differs from C. canescens and C. vitilis in its more numerous spikelets, in their being capitate and the lower ones bracted, and in its longer leaves, In general appearance it more nearly resembles C. elongata, yet in the form and nervation of the perigynium it is far different. Boott’s lllustrations of Carex. 156 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. C. ecrinita, Lam. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. North of lake Superior, Juni. C. crinita, Lam., var. gynandra, Schw. & Torr. (C. gynandra, Schw.) Sedge. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni. Rare. C. limosa, L. Sedge. Throughout the state, but infrequent. [North of lake Superior (at Fort William), Macoun; Emmet county, lowa, Cratty, Arthur.] C. Magellanica, Lam. (C. irrigua, Smith.) Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting far southward, butrare. Putin bay, lake Superior, Juni. C. Buxbaumii, Wahl. — Sedge. Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Lowa (frequent), Cratty. C. atrata, L. Sedge. Kakabeka falls, north of lake Superior, Macoun; probably also in northern Minne- sota. C. alpina, Swartz. Sedge. Temperance river, lake Superior, Juni. North. C. aurea, Nutt. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Lake of the Woods (thicket), Dawson, Macoun; Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube. (C. aurea, Nutt., var. androgyna, Olney,* collected by Macoun at Thunder bay, lake Superior, should be looked for in northern Minnesota.] C. livida, Willd. Sedge. Greenwood river, lake Superior, Juni. Rare. North. C. vaginata, Tausch. Sedge. Certainly in swamps in northern Minnesota, Macoun. North. C. Meadii, Dew. Mead’s Sedge. Minneapolis, Kassube. [Manitoba, Macoun; Iowa, Arthur.] C. Meadii, Dew., var. Bebbii, Arthur. + Sedge. Emmet county, Lowa, Cratty, Arthur; doubtless also in Epo *CAREX AUREA, Nutt., var. ANDROGYNA, Olney. Culms short, more rigid ; leaves erect, broader ; upper spikes more closely aggregated and denser flowered, the upper spike generally androgynous, having more or less fertile flowers at the top. Olney in Bot. Rep. of King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Paratlel. +CAREX MEADII, Dew., var. BEBBII (Olney). This was published in Olney’s Carices Bor.-Amer., Fasc. 1, No. 22, without comments, as a variety of C. panicea, L., and has never, I believe, been described. The following description will enable collectors to identify the plant :—Sterile spike with stalk two to four times its length ; fertile spikes usually 2, erect, remote, slender-peduneled, rather loosely flowered ; sheaths of the foliaceous bracts long and slightly inflated; perigynia and scales as in C. Meadii, except paler, and the former less distinctly nerved ; culms slender, somewhat roughish .—- Resembles C. tetanica, for which it is sometimes mistaken, in habit and in the loosely flowered fertile spikes, only with longer peduncles, but C. Meadii in the perigynia and seales ; it may be mereiy an attenuated form of the latter. Moist prairies, Illinois, Wisconsin, and northwestwardly. Arthur in Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, No. VI. STATE GEOLOGIST. 157 C. Crawei, Dew. Sedge. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, lowa, Cratty, determined by Mr. William Boott. (Manitoba, Macoun.! Rare. C. granularis, Muhl. Sedge. Common throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Blue Earth county, - Leihberg. C. Torreyi, Tuckerman. Sedge. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Red river valley, Macoun. North. C. grisea, Wahl. Sedge. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county, Cratty. C. Davisii, Schw. & Torr. Sedge. Through the south part of the state. Minneapolis, Simmons. C. gracillima, Schw. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far ate ta Minneapolis, Juni, Kas- sube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. digitalis, Willd. Sedge. Minneapolis, Juni; north of lake Superior, Agassiz. Infrequent. C. laxiflora, Lam. Sedge. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. laxiflora, Lam., var. blanda, Boott. Sedge. Jordan, Scott county, Juni; Emmet county, lowa, Cratty. Doubtless other vari- eties of this species also occur here. C. eburnea, Boott. Sedge. » Throughout the state, excepting perhaps southwestward. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Ilowa(rare), Cratty. C. pedunculata, Muhl. Sedge. Throughout the state. Rainy lake, Richardson, Boott; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. Emmonsii, Dew. Emmons’ Sedge. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macouwn.] C. Pennsylvanica, Lam. Sedge. Common throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, lowa (common), Oratty. C. varia, Muhl. Sedge. Lapham. Infrequent. C. Richardsonii, R. Br. Richardson’s Sedge. Throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni. (frequent) Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. pubescens, Muhl. Sedge. Through the south part of the state. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Letberg. C. miliacea, Muhl. Sedge. Range like the last. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube. C. arctata, Boott. Sedge. Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni. Infrequent. ©. capillaris, L. Sedge. Port Arthur, lake Superior, Macoun; Saskatchewan river, Bourgeau; probably also in northern Minnesota. r 158 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. C. flexilis, Rudge. Sedge. Knife river, lake Superior, Juni, Rare. North. C, Qderi, Ehrh. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Lapham. Leech lake, Houghton; Rainy river and lake, Richardson, Boott. C. filiformis, L. Sedge. Throughout the state. Putin bay, lake Superior, Juni; Emmet county, Lowa (fre- quent), Cratty. C., filiformis, L., var. latifolia, Boeck. (C.lanuginosa, Michx.) Sedge. Throughout the state. North shore of lake Superior (frequent), and Minneapolis, Juni; Red river valley near Saint Vincent, Dawson, Macoun; Emmet county, lowa (plentiful), Cratty. C. Houghtonii, Torr. Houghton’s Sedge. Itasca lake (Lac la Biche), Houghton; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macoun; Council Blufis, Iowa, Geyer.] ©. riparia, Curtis. Sedge. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. North of lake Superior (common), Juni; lake of the Woods (sandy swamp), Dawson, Macoun; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. C. aristata, R. Br. Sedge. Throughout the state, but infrequent. Pembina, Chickering; New Ulm, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. : (). Pseudo-Cyperus, L., var. comosa, W. Boott. (C- comosa, Boott.) Sedge. Common, or frequent, through the south part of the state. Blue Earth county, Leiberg ; Emmet and Dickinson counties, Iowa (frequent), Cratty, Arthur. C. Pseudo-Cyperus, L. Sedge. Throughout the state. Lake of the Woods (marsh), Dawson, Macoun; Chaska, Carver county, Juni; Spirit Lake, Iowa, Arthur. C. hystricina, Willd. Sedge. Common throughout the state, excepting perhaps far northwestward. Lapham. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; north of lake Superior, Agassiz. C. tentaculata, Muhl. Sedge. Range like the last, but less frequent. Lapham. Minneapolis, Simmons; north of lake Superior, Agassiz. C. intumescens, Rudge. Sedge. Common throughout the state. Lake of the Woods and Rainy lake, Richardson, Boott; north of lake Superior (common), also New Ulm, Juni. C. lupulina, Mubl. Sedge. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis, Simmons. [Manitoba, Macoun.] C. squarrosa,L. Sedge. Wabasha, Gibson, determined by Arthur. South. C. retrorsa, Schw. Sedge. Throughout the state. Lake of the Woods, Richardson, Boott; Moose Lake, Carl-_ ton county, Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. C. utriculata, Boott. Sedge. Throughout the state, excepting farsouthward. Redriver prairie, Dawson, Macoun. C. monile, Tucki rman. Sedge. North of lake Superior, Juni; Emmet county, Iowa (frequent), Cratty, STATE GEOLOGIST. 159 C. oligosperma, Michx. Sedge. Agate bay, lake Superior Juni. Infrequent. North. C. saxatilis, L.. var. miliaris, Bailey. (C. miliaris, Michx. C. rotundata, Wahl. ?, in Manual.) Sedge. Collected in Minnesota by Dr. J. Leidy; determined by S. T. Olney. Bot. Rep. of King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallet. C. longirostris, Torr. Sedge. Throughout the state. Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube; Mankato (common), Leiberg; also common in Martin county, and in Emmet county, lowa, Cratty. [A considerable number of species of Carex not here recorded will doubtless be added by future observers in this state, who should look for all such as approach, or are especially northern, in their geographic range, given in Gray’s Manual.] GRAMINE A. Grass FAmIty. LEERSIA, Swartz. §Waurrr Grass. Fatse Rice. L. Virginica, Willd. White Grass. Ramsey and Goodhue counties, Oestlund; Minneapolis, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, lowa (rare), Cratty. South. L. oryzoides, Swartz. Rice Cut-grass. Common in sloughs through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley, Juni, Upham; Ramsey and Goodhue counties, Oestlund; Blue Earth county. Leiberg. L. lenticularis, Michx. Fly-catch Grass. Lapham. South. ZIZANYTA,L. Warer or Inpran Rice. Z. aquatica, L. Wild Rice. Indian Rice. Water Oats. Folie Avoine (of the French voyageurs). Common, or frequent, in favorable situations, throughout the state ; sometimes attaining, in Brown county, a hight of 13 feet, with leaves 4 feet long, Juni. “Wild rice; Pshu of the Sioux ; Manomin of the Chippewas. This aquatic grass, not uncommon in the Northern United States, acquires in the Northwest an economi- eal importance second to no other spontaneous production. It is the only instance in this region of a native grain, occurring in sufficient quantity to supply, the wants of ordinary consumption. It is particularly abundant on the lake-like expansions of rivers, towards their sources, which give such a marked feature to the distribution of these northern streams, and is so grandly illustrated in their main type, the Missis- sippi. It seems to select, by preference, the lower terminations of these expansions, which generally debouch by a narrowed outlet and considerable fall, constituting rap- ids. It is in these situations best exposed to the proper degree of inundation, and finds a Suitable bed of the slimy sand, in which it grows most readily. Itis rarely met with on inland lakes which have no outlet. As an article of food itis highly palatable and nutritious, being generally preferred to the commercial rice. The grain is long, slender, of a brown color. In boiling, it puffs out to a pultaceous mass, and increases its bulk several times. It flowers in August, and is ready for gathering in September, which is conveniently done in canoes, the standing stalks being bent over the sides, and the grain beaten in. Its productive fields, at this season, harbour a great number of wild fowls, which obliges those who wish to secure a full crop, to anticipate the gathering season, by tying up the standing grain into bundles, which gives at the same time a claim to the crop. When gathered it is subjected to a process of parching and thrash- ing, which. with the imperfect means at the command of the Indians, is the most tedi- ous part of the business.” Parry. 160 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. ALOPECURUS, L. FoxtTsIL Grass. A. geniculatus, L., var. aristulatus, Munro. (A. aristulatus, Michx.) Wild Foxtail. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. PHLEUM, L. Cat’s-TAIL GRASS. P. pratense, L. Timothy. Herd’s-Grass (of New England). Commonly cultivated, often spontaneous, throughout the state. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. (Including Vitra, Beauy.) DRopP-SEED Grass. Rusa-GRrass. S. asper, Kunth. (Vilfa aspera, Beauv.) Rush-Grass. Lapham. New Ulm, Juni. South. S. vaginzeflorus, Torr. (V. vagineflora, Torr.) Rush-Grass. Lapham. Minneapolis (sandy bottomland of the Mississippi river), Oestlund; Emmet county, Iowa (frequent), Cratty. South. S. cuspidatus, Torr. (V. cuspidata, Torr.) Rush-Grass. Lapham, Hennepin and Goodhue counties, Vestlund; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. [Devil’s lake, and southern Dakota, Geyer; Manitoba, Macoun.} S. depauperatus, Torr.* (V. depauperata, Torr.) Rush-Grass. Red river valley, at Pembina, Havard. West. S. Junceus, Kunth. Drop-seed Grass. Lapham. New Ulm, Juni. Rare. South. S. heterolepis, Gray, Drop-seed Grass. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Ramsey county, Oestlund; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; common in Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. [Eastern Ne- braska (abundant), Aughey; Manitoba, Macoun.] S. cryptandrus, Gray. Drop-seed Grass. Through the south part of the state. Ramsey county, Oestlund; Minneapolis, Sim- mons, Upham, Dr. Vasey; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty; Spirit lake and Little Sioux river, Geyer. AGROSTIS, L. Brent-GRass. A. perennans, Tuckerman. Thin-Grass. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. Lapham. Minne- apolis, Upham; Pembina, Havard. A. seabra, Willd. Hair-Grass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. *SPOROBOLUS DEPAUPERATUS, Torr. Root perennial, creeping ; culms ascending, appressed-branched, slender, often geniculate, glabrous, striate, rather rigid, % to 2 feet long ; leaves 1 to 3 inches long, narrow and usually convolute, spreading or recurved ; panicle very slender and contracted, 1to 3inches long; compound or often nearly simple ; spikelets small; glumes unequal, ovate, obtuse or acutish, membranous, two- thirds the length of the acute lower palet, which is more less obscurely 3-nerved.— Resembling V. cuspidata, and scarcely differing except in the shorter obtuse glumes of the rather smaller flowers. Lower palet a little more than 1 line long, glabrous or slightly scabrous on the midnerve, the upper one obtuse or erose at the summit. Waf- son’s Rep, in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. STATE GEOLOGIST. 161 A. canina, L. Brown Bent-Grass. Pipestone county, Letberg. Rare. A. vulgaris, With. Red-top. Herd’s-Grass (sf Pennsylvania, &c.) _ Probably native northward ; also much cultivated, and thence often spontaneous, throughout the state. (According to Dr. George Thurber, in the Botany of California, this should be called a variety of A. alba, L.) A. vulgaris, With., var. alba, Vasey. (A. alba, L.) Fiorin. White Bent-Grass. Ramsey county, Oestlund ; Red Wing, Sandberg ; Blue Earth county, Leiberg ; New Ulm, Juni. [Lake Superior, Whitney.] CINNA, L. Woop REED-GRaAss. C. arundinacea, L. Wood Reed-Grass. Throughout the state. Lapham. Upper Mississippi river, Houghton; Blue. Earth county, Leiberg. C. pendula, Trin. (C. arundinacea, L., var. pendula, Gray.) Wood Reed- Grass. s Lake Superior and northward, Gray’s Manual; doubtless in northern Minnesota. MUHLENBERGIA, Schreber. DROP-SEED GRASS. M. sobolifera, Trin. Drop-seed Grass. Lapham. South. M.glomerata, Trin. Drop-seed Grass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state ; not confined to wet places, but often growing on dry and even sandy ground ; abundant southwestward, frequently persisting as a plentiful weed in wheat-fields and other cultivated land, Upham. M. glomerata, Trin., var. ramosa, Vasey, ined. Drop-seed Grass. Minneapolis (bluff of Mississippi river near the University), Upham; probably the prevailing form of the species in this state. [Much brancked from the base upward, the lateral branches slender, naked above, very leafy; outer glumes only slightly longer to one-third longer than the flower ; flowering glume sparingly villous. Minne- sota, Dakota and Utah. JLetter of Dr. Vasey, Sept. 30, 1884. ] M. Mexicana, Trin. Drop-seed Grass. Ramsey county, Oestlund ; Blue Earth county, and southwestward (common), Lei- berg ; Pembina, Havard. M. sylvatica, Torr. & Gray. Drop-seed Grass. Lapham. North of lake Superior, Agassiz. Probably throughout the state. M. Willdenovii, Trin. Drop-seed Grass. Through the south part of the state. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg- M. ambigua, Torr.* Drop-seed Grass. Stony banks of Okaman lake (lake Elysian), Waseca county, Geyer. *MUHLENBERGIA AMBIGUA, Torr. Panicle dense, opiciform; glumes rather unequal (the inferior one shorter), linear-lanceolate, very acute, 1- or 2-flowered, very hairy at the base ; superior valve [palet] with a bristle at the tip equalling it inlength, a little shorter than the ylumes (exclusive of the awns); superior floret either perfect, and then resembling the inferior, or rudimentary and aristiform. . . . Culms cxspi- tose, about 1% feet high, glabrous ; leaves broadly linear ; stipules very short, truncate 11F 162 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. BRACHYELYTRUM, Beauv. BRACHYELYTRUM. B. aristatum, Beauv. Brachyelytrum. Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. DEYEUXIA, Clarioa. (Included in Catamagrostis, Gray’s Manual.) | Rrep BEnNT-GRASS. D. Canadensis, Beauv. Blue-Joint. Common throughout thescate. The principal grass of the natural meadows bor- dering streams in the wooded region northward, supplying an abundance of excellent hay for the logging teams of the pineries. D. stricta, Trin. Reed Bent-Grass. Throughout the state, Collected in Minnesota by Nicollet (Watson); Ramsey and Hennepin counties, Vestlund; Minneapolis, Simmons; Blue Earth County, Leiberg ; Emmet county, lowa (common), Cratty ; Pembina, Havard. D. Lapponica, Kunth. (Calamagrostis Lapponica, Trin., in Addenda of Gray's Manual.) Reed Bent-Grass. Isle Royale, lake Superior, Prof. I. C. Porter; doubtless also in northern Minnesota, D. confinis, Nutt. Reed Bent-Grass. Lapham. Common in Grant county and the Red River valley, Upham. D. Nuttalliana, Steud. Reed Bent-Grass. Lapham. Lake Winnibigoshish, Houghton; Minneapolis, Kassube. AMMOPHILA, Host. (§§ 2 and 3, CaLamaerostis, Gray’s Manual.) ReeEeD Brnt-GRaAss. A. longifolia, Benth. (C. longifolia, Hook.) Reed Bent-Grass. Throughout the state. Ramsey county, Oestlund; Saint Paul, Kelley; Minneapolis, also northwestward ‘common on the beaches of lake Agassiz), Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. A. arundinacea, Host. (C. arenaria, Roth.) Sea Sand-Reed. Common on southern beaches of lake Superior, Whitney; doubtless also on the shore of this lake in Minnesota. ORYZOPSIS, Michx. MowuNTAIN RICE. O. melanocarpa, Mubhl. Mountain Rice. Lapham. Ramsey county, Oestlund; Minneapolis, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. O. asperifolia, Michx. Mountain Rice. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Lapham. Stearns county, Garrison; Minneapotis, Simmons. O. Canadensis, Torr. Mountain Rice. : Lapham. Infrequent. Range like the last. and lacerate ; panicle 4 to 6 inches long, purplish; glumes tapering to a very acute cuspidate point, with a strong green midrib ; perianth clothed at the base with whitish hairs, which are nearly half as long as the valves; valves nearly equal; awn a little tortuous, sometimes longer than the valve ; superior floret often perfect, and maturing its fruit ; when rudimentary, consisting of a mere awn, without any valve. A remark- able species, with the habit of M. glomerata and M. Mexicana. Torrey in Nicollet’s Report. STATE GEOLOGIST. 163 STIPA, L. FratHEeR-GRAss. WEATHER-GRASS. S. Richardsonii, Link. Richardson’s Feather-Grass. North shore of lake Superior, andin Manitoba, Macoun; doubtless reaching into Minnesota. North. S. spartea, Trin. —_ Porcupine Grass. Abundant southwestward, being the principal grass of the prairie in some districts, and extending undiminished into Dakota ; common north to Clay county and east to New Ulm; frequent northeast to the sources of the Mississippi, Houghton, and to Sherburne and Anoka counties, and in the southeast part of the state, Upham. (See American Naturalist, vol. xvili, pp. 929-931.) The grainis prolonged below in a stout callus or base, needle-like in sharpness, and above in a long twisted awn; both of ' which are minutely barbed, so that, when inserted in the wool of sheep or in men’s clothing, the seed works forward readily but not backward. Thus this very appropri- ately named grassis a Serious annoyance at the time of maturity and falling of the seed, which isin July. Within a few weeks later, these seeds are found to have bored into the hard, dry, clayey soil of the prairie to a depth of two or three inches, having been pushed or impelled in some way by means of the awn. Perhaps this is effected by its lengthening, while braced against the herbage above, after it had been con- tracted by partially coiling up, these changes being produced by alternations of dry- ness and moisture, as in days of sunshine and dewy nights ; or, as seems more proba- ble, it may be that the wind, blowing upon the awn, first fastens the sharp-pointed grain in the ground, and afterward slowly drills it downward. This was first brought to the notice of the writer by Mr. T. M. Young, at the Sisseton Agency, in Dakota, where, late in August, scarcely any seeds of this grass remained on the surface; but they were found very plentifully thus buried in the ground, often only from a half inch to one ineh apart. All had penetrated to nearly the same depth, which was about two and a half inches from the surface to the point of the seed, two thirds of this depth being occupied by the lower part of the awn. ARISTIDA, L. TRIPLE-AWNED GRASS. A, basiramea, Engelmann * Triple-awned Grass. Minneapolis (plentiful in the vicinity of the University, in the sward on dry sandy land with species of Bouteloua, Poa and Andropogon, from which it is noticeably dis- tinguished by its darker purplish color), Upham; Saint Cloud (plentiful), Campbell; Pipestone City and Luverne, in southwestern Minnesota, and near Rock Rapids, Lyon county, in the northwest corner of Iowa, Leiberg. It has also been collected in Nebraska by Rev. J. H. Wibbe, and in Kansas by Mr. H. Hall; and Mr. F. L. Scribner and Prof. J. M. Coulter report it from Iowa and Tlli- nois. Rev. J. Scott writes that it occurs at Brandon, Manitoba. [Nebraska specimens show a much greater size (20 inches high) and a more branching habit, the culms becom- ing geniculate. Vasey.] *ARISTIDA BASIRAMEA, Engelmann in a letterto W. Upham.—Annual: culms erect, 6 to 15 inches high, slender, much branched at the base (Some of the branches ‘very short but floriferous), and with short floriferous branches enclosed in the upper leaf-sheaths : leaves comparatively long (3 to 6 inches), narrowly linear, flat, becoming involute toward the apex, sparsely hairy on the margins below, the upper ones nearly equaling the panicle ; sheaths striate, loose; ligule very short, truncate: panicle 1% to 3 inches long, erect, rather lax, its base sheathed by the upper leaf; branches of the panicle short, mostly single, the lower in twos or threes; glumes linear, unequal, 1- nerved, lower one 4 lines, upper one 6 lines long including the short bristle-like point : flowering glume nearly terete, spotted with black, about 5 lines long including the short, acute and hairy callus; middle awn about 6 lines long, the lateral ones about 4 lines long, spirally twisted below(when mature). The sheathed flowers are somewhat smaller. This species was discovered last season by Mr. Warren Upham, at Minneapolis, Miun. The late Dr. Engelmann suggested the name, in a letter, as indicative of its habit, and would have published it if he had lived. Itis closely related to A. DICHO- 164 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. A. purpurea, Nutt.* —_‘Triple-awned Grass. Blue Earth county, and common westward to Pipestone county, Leiberg. South- west. A. purpurascens, Poir. —_‘Triple-awned Grass. Lapham. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, Swezey. Infrequent. South. A. tuberculosa, Nutt. Triple-awned Grass. Lapham. Pine barrens, St. Croix river, Parry. South. SPARTINA, Schreber. Corp or Mars GRASS. S. cynosuroides, Willd. Fresh-water Cord-Grass. Abundant through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley ; north of lake Superior, Agassiz; making up the greater part of the hay cut in sloughs, worth for fodder fully half as much.as the hay of the uplands. Its hight is usually from two to four feet, but occasionally it is eight or nine feet. In the five or six counties next to the southwest corner of the state, because of the scarcity of wood and the high cost of that or coal for fuel, a large proportion of the people burn only hay during the whole year. For this purpose the coarse hay of this species is the only kind used. Itis mostly burned in ordinary stoves, having been twisted, then doubled and again twisted, forming wisps about one andahalffeetlong. The quantity of this fuel required for a year’s supply in an ordinary farm-house is from eight to twelve tons. BOUTELOUDA, Lagasca. MousxiT-Grass. GRaMA-GRASS. B, oligostachya, Torr. Muskit-Grass. Grama. Common, or frequent, southwestward and in the Red river valley; less frequent east to Stillwater and the edge of Wisconsin. B. hirsuta, Lagasca. Muskit-Grass. Grama. Common through the south part of the state, extending north to Minneapolis and the St. Croix river, Parry; abundant at New Ulm and in Rock and Pipestone counties. ,, This and the preceding are sometimes called Buffalo Grass in this state, a name ; which more properly belongs to Buchioe. See pages 14 and 32 of Rothrock’s Report ; on the Botany of Wheeler’s Surveys west of the One Hundredth Meridian for chemical analyses of Festuca ovina and the two foregoing species of Bouteloua, which with others of this genus are commonly called Grama in the southwestern United States. B. racemosa, Lagasca. (B. curtipendula, Gray.) Muskit Grass. Grama. Common through the south part of the state, especially southwestward ; likewise in the Red river valley. : TOMA, from which it differs in its shorter, erect (not dichotomous) culms, and in its | much larger flowers, and especially in the much longer, spreading, lateral awns. From A. GRACILIs it differs in the shorter panicle, the longer upper leaves with sheathed flowers, and in the flowers being twice as large. From A. RAMOSISSIMA it differs in wanting the larger size, the diffusely branched habit, the much larger flowers with 3- . 10 5-nerved glumes, and the strong recurved middle awn of that species. Dr. George Vasey in the Botanical Gazette, vol, ix, p. 76 (May, 1884). *ARISTIDA PURPUREA, Nutt. Perennial; culms 6 to 15 inches high, simple, erect, slender, mostly glabrous ; sheaths narrow, scabrous, exceeding the internodes, pilose at the throat; leaves very narrow, convolute, % to 10 inches long; panicle slender, erect or flaccid, 3 to 6 inches long, loosely few-flowered ; glumes purplish, the upper 6 to 9 lines long, about twice exceeding the lower, and longer than the flower, bifid and shortly awned; flower densely short-pilose at the pointed base, scabrous above, 6 lines long, the awns equal or nearly so, separate to the base, not jointed, 1 to 2 inches long, scabrous. Watson’s Rep. in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. STATE GEOLOGIST. 165 BUCHLOE, Engelm. BuFFALO GRASS. B. dactyloides, Engelm.* Buffalo Grass. Abundant in the vicinity of the pipestone quarry, at Pipestone City, commencing a few rods north of the railroad depot, and extending the whole length of the outcrop- ping ledge of rock northward, in company with a dense growth of prickly pear (Upuntia Missouriensis and O, fragilis); also occurring, at rare intervals, on stony and gravelly soil, in Rock county, and in Lyon county, Iowa; (not found farther east ; perhaps in all these places introduced by the Indians in their journeys from the western plains to the pipestone quarry ;) Leiberg. [Formerly the most abundant species of grass through- out Nebraska, lately disappearing, according to Aughey, who attributes its dying out to increased rain-fall.] GRAPHEPHORUM, Desv. GRAPHEPHORUM. G festucaceum, Gray. | Graphephorum. In Emmet county, Iowa, six miles south of the state line (plentiful upon space of five or six square rods, in edge of lake), Craity; determined by Prof. Asa Gray; the first observation of this species in the United States, though it abounds in the Saskatchewan region and extends thence northward, and also isfound in northern Europe. Doubtless it occurs in western and northern Minnesota. (Botanical Gazette, vol. ix, p.27; Feb., 1884.) *BUCHLOE, Engelmann. Flowers dicecious, heteromorphous.— Male plant. Spikes 1-sided, 2-ranked ; spikelets 2- or 3 flowered. Glumes 2, 1-nerved, lower much smaller. Palets 2, of equal length, longer than the glumes; lower one 3-nerved, mucronate ; upper one 2-nerved. Squamule in pairs, truncate, emarginate. Stamens 3; anthers linear. Rudiment of an ovary none.—Female plant. Spikes 1 to 3, short, capitate, oblique in the involucrate sheaths of the upper leaves ; spikelets 1-flowered, crowded, upper floret abortive, withering. Glumes 2; lower glume of the lowest spikelets 1- to 3- nerved, lanceolate-subulate, with an herbaceous tip, or 2- or 3-cleft, lower side adnate to the back of the upper glume; lower glumes of the other spikelets (internal as to the head) free, much smaller, membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved ; upper glumes (external) connate at the base with the thickened rachis, at length like a hard, woody involucre, ovate, nerveless, pale, trifid at the herbaceous, nerved tip. Lower palet (in- ternal as tv the head) shorter, 3-nerved, herbaceous, tricuspidate ; upper palet shorter, 2-nerved. Squamulz as inthe male flowers. Rudiments of the stamens 3,:minute. Ovary lenticular, glabrous, very short-stipitate ; stigmas much longer than the 2 erect terminal styles, plumose with simple hairs, exsert from the apex of the flower. Cary- opsis free, included in a horny, at length deciduous head, sublenticular, flat on the out- Side (toward the lower palet), convex on the inner side. B. DACTYLOIDES, Engelmann. Trans. Saint Louis Acad., vol, i, p. 432, pl. 12 and 14. Densely tuited, spreading by stolons, forming broad mats; culms 3 to 6inches long ; flowering stems of the male plant 4 to 6 inches long, glabrous or slightly hairy ; leaves 2 to + inches long, 4% to 1% lines wide, nearly smooth ; sheaths striate, glabrous, strongly bearded at the throat; spikes 3 to 6 lines long; spikelets alternate in2 rows, upper- most abortive, bristle-form, 2 to 3 lines long; lower glume ovate-lanceolate, with a Scarious Margin ; ‘upper glume twice longer, ovate; lower palet convex, 3-nerved, upper one 2-nerved, two minute scales at the margin and inside of the lower palet ; stamens 3. Stems of the female plant much shorter than the leaves, 114 to 2 inches high ; heads 3 to 3% lines long ; glumes becoming ligneous ; spikes or heads usually 2; at maturity becoming thick, extremely hard, including the loose grain.—The cele- brated “buffalo grass,’’ known to hunters and trappers as one of the most nutritious grasses, on which for a part of the year subsist and fatten the immense herds of buffalo and the cattle of the hunter and emigrant. Porter and Coulter’s Flora of Colorado. +GRAPHEPHORUM FESTUCACEUM, Gray. (Festuca borealis, Mert. & Koch. Arundo festucacea, Willd.) Culm as thick as a swan’s quill, 3 to 4 or more feet high; leaves 8 to 10 inches long, broadly linear-acuminate, rough to the touch. Panicle a foot and more long, almost quite erect, as well as the subverticillate slender branches. 166 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. DIARRHENA, Raf. DIARRHENA. D. Americana, Beauv. Diarrhena. Sherburne county, Upham. Rave. South. DACTYLIS, L. ORCHARD GRAss. D. glomerata, L. Orchard Grass. Ramsey county, Vestlund; Minneapolis, Simmons; Mankato, Leiberg. KQ@@LERIA, Pers. K@.LeERIA. K. eristata, Pers. Keeleria. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. [The most plentiful species of grass on the line of the Northern Pacific railroad in western Dakota, Leiberg.] EATONIA, Raf. EaTontia. E. obtusata, Gray. Eatonia. . Minneapolis, Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Manitoba, Macoun.] South and west. E. Pennsylvanieca, Gray. Eatonia. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps northwestward. Ramsey county, Vestlund; Minneapolis, Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; New Ulm, Juni. (North of lake Superior, Agassiz. ] GLYCERIA, R. Br. Manna-GRass. G. Canadensis, Trin. Rattlesnake-Grass. Frequent throughout the state, excepting far southward. St. Croix river, Parry; Ramsey connty, Oestlund; Minneapolis, Simmons, Kassube. G. elongata, Trin. Manna-Grass. Minneapolis, Upham; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Infrequent, G. nervata, Trin. Fowl Meadow-Grass. Common throughout the state. {G. pallida, Trin., doubtless occurs in this state, but has been overlooked.| G. aquatica, Smith, var. Americana, Vasey. Reed Meadow-Grass. Common throughout the state. Spikelets erect, 4% to % of an inch long, scattered or subfascicled, sessile or pedicellate, generally 4-flowered. Glumes unequal, convex, rounded at the back, not keeled, the outer one shorter than the florets, acute, entire at the point, the middle nerve reaching beyond the point, so as to form ashort arista ; there are besides, on each side, two short lateral nerves ; the inner glume as long as the whole spikelet of florets, torn at the point, aristate, the middle nerve reaching beyond the point; there are besides 2 lateral nerves reaching to the apex, and 2 intermediate shorter ones. Florets eylin- drical, closely placed, with a tuft of white hairs at the base of each ; outer valve [palet] of the perianth jagged at the point, shortly aristate, with 7 nerves reaching to the sum- mit; the inner lanceolate, the margin inflected, with 2strong, green, ciliated nerves at the flexures, running out so as to form a bifid apex; upper floret smaller than the rest. Hooker’s Flora Borealis Am., II, 251.——The Iowa specimens, communicated by Mr. R- I. Cratty, agree fully with this description, except that the spikelets are not so large, scarcely exceeding % ofaninchin length. Pedicels of the spikelets rough; awns formed by the nerves, especially of the glumes, inconspicuous, and sometimes barely obsery- able. It grows 3 to 5 feet high in water, at the margin of lakes. Arthur in Contribu- tions to the Flora of Iowa, No. VI. STATE GEOLOGIST. 167 G. fluitans, R. Br. Manna-Grass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. POA, L. Mrapow-Grass. SpraRr-GRASS. P. annua, L. Low Spear-Grass. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward, but infrequent. Minne- apolis, Kassube; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. P. compressa, L. Wire-Grass. © Throughout the state, but infrequent. Parry, Lapham. Ramsey county, Oest- lund; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Pembina, Chickering, Havard. P. alpina, L. Spear-Grass. Isle Royale, and north shore of lake Superior, Loring, Porter, Macoun; doubtiess also in Minnesota. North. P. cezesia, Smith. Spear-Grass. Throughout the state. North shore of lake Superior, Juni; Blue Earth county, Lei- berg; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. P.. ceesia, Smith, var. strictior, Gray. Spear-Grass. Isle Royale, Whitney; Red river, Dawson, M acoun. North. P. serotina, Ehrh. False Red-top. Fowl Meadow-Grass. Common throughout the state. P. pratensis, L. Green or Common Meadow-Grass. Kentucky Blue- Grass. - June Grass. Common throughout the state; taking the place of the original prairie grasses in southwestern Minnesota, Juni. [In Nebraska not native, but spreading westward, Aughey.] P. sylvestris, Gray. Spear-Grass. Lapham. Pembina, Havard. Rare. South and west. [P. debilis, Torr., probably occurs in this state.] P. alsodes, Gray. Spear-Grass. Saint Paul, Kelley; Red river valley, at Pembina, Chickering. Infrequent. South and west. ‘ ERAGROSTIS, Beauv. ERAGROSTIS. E. reptans, Nees. Eragrostis. Through the south part of the state. Lapham. Goodhue county, Oestlund; Blue Earth county, Letberg. E. pozeoides, Beauv., var. megastachya, Gray. Eragrostis. Abundant, in door-yards and by road-sides, through the south half of the state ; common north atleast to Crow Wing, Todd and Grant counties, and in the Red river valley, Upham. It was found by Geyer in 1839 on sandy plains in the valley of the Sheyenne river, Dakota, and is quite probably indigenous in this region. ; E. pilosa, Beauv. Eragrostis. Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Minneapolis (distinct from E. Purshii), Upham. In- frequent. South. E. Frankii, Meyer. =‘ Frank’s Eragrostis. _ Hastings, Dakota county, Oestlund. Southeast E. Purshii, Schrader. Pursh’s Eragrostis. Becoming abundant by road-sides and in waste places, Ramsey county, Minneapolis, 168 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. and Steele county, Oestlund, Simmons, Upham; determined by Scribner, Vasey and Watson. South. E. capillaris, Nees. Eragrostis. Lapham Minneapolis, Kasswbe. Infrequent. South. K. pectinacea, Gray. Eragrostis. Lapham. Minneapolis, Simmons, South. E. pectinacea, Gray, var. spectabilis, Gray. Eragrostis. Minneapolis (river bluff near the University), Oestlund, Upham. South. FESTUCA, L. FEscur-GRAss. F. tenella, Willd. Slender Fescue-Grass. Through the south half of the state. Lapham. Minneapolis, Simmons, (abun- dant on sandy land east of the University) Upham. F. ovina, L. Sheep’s Fescue. Frequent throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. F. rubra, L. (F. ovina, L., var. rubra, Gray.) Red Fescue. Lake Superior, Dr. Robbins, and northward, Gray’s Manual; probably in northern Minnesota. ; [F. duriuscula, L. (F. ovina, L., var. duriuscula, Gray), should also be looked for northward. ] F. elatior, L. (Including F’. pratensis, Hudson.) Taller or Meadow Fescue. Minneapolis, old state farm Close southeast from University, Oestlund. Infre- quent. F. nutans, Willd. Nodding Fescue. Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far northward, but infrequent. Lake Win- nibigoshish, Houghton; lake. Minnetonka, Oestlund; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Emmet county, Iowa (rare), Cratty. BROMUS, L. BRoME-GRASS. B. secalinus, L. Cheat or Chess. Occasional in wheat*fields, mostly southeastward. A very unwelcome immigrant. Plentifnl in Houston county, especially in fields of winter wheat, also frequent in mow- ing land, J. S. Harris; frequent, but not so plentiful as to be troublesome, in Steele county and at Minneapolis, Upham. B. racemosus, L. Upright Chess. Minneapolis, Kassube. Infrequent. B. Kalmii, Gray. Wild Chess, Common, or frequent, throughout the state, excepting perhaps northeastward. B. ciliatus, L. Wild Chess. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. B. ciliatus, L., var. purgans, Gray. Wild Chess. Minneapolis, Upham. Probably common, PHRAGMITES, Trin. Reed. P. communis, Trin, Reed. Common, or frequent, in the edges of ponds and lakes, throughout the prairie portion of the state; also at Roseau lake and the lake of the Woods, Dawson. 4 | : STATE GEOLOGIST. 169 SCHEDONNARDUS, Steudel.* SCHEDONNARDUS. S. Texanus, Steud. (Lepturus paniculatus, Nutt.) Schedonnardus. Rocky hills, Mound township, Rock county, Leiberg. [Upper Missouri river, Geyer.] Rare. Southwest. LOLIUM, L. DaRNEL. Ray-Grass. L. temulentum, L. Bearded Darnel. Mankato (plentiful about the elevator ofthe St. Paul & Sioux City railroad), Letberg. AGROPYRUM, Beauv. (Trrticum, L., in part.) WHEAT-GRASS. A. repens, Beauv. (T. repens, L.) Couch-, Quitch-, Quick-, or Witch- Grass. Frequent, or common, throughout the state, but rarely so plentiful as to be trouble- some. (Specimens which must be referred to this species, as decided by Mr. Sereno W atson, were found at Minneapolis on the embankment of the railroad about an eighth of a mile northwest from the University and close west of Tuttle’s brook, having a very Narrow and long spike of many spikelets, awnless, as long or half as long as the joints of the rhachis, 3-flowered, with arudiment of a fourth flower, often the lowest or the middle flower not ripening its grain, and having in some instances no running root- stocks. The typical T. repens occurs near by, and also forms which seem to be inter- mediate in respect to both the character of the spikes and the presence of rootstocks. Upham.) A. dasystachyum, Vasey. (T. dasystachyum, Gray.) Wheat-Grass. North shore of lake Superior, Agassiz; doubtiess also in northern Minnesota. A. violaceum, Vasey. (T. violaceum, Hornemann.) Wheat-Grass. Throughout the state, but rarer than the next. Pembina, Havard; in openings of woods, on sandy modified drift, at the northwest side of Mille Lacs, Upham; Ramsey county, Oestlund; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. A. caninum, Ren. & Schultes. (T. caninum, L.) Wheat-Grass. Frequent throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Pembina, Hav- ard; Minneapolis, Twining, Upham; Blue Earth county, Letberg; New Ulm, Juni. [Be- tween the James and Red rivers, Dakota, Geyer.] HORDEUM, L. BaRLEY. H. jubatum, L. Squirrel-tail Grass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. H. pusillum, Nutt. (H. pratense, Gray’s Manual.) Barley-Grass. Blue Earth county, Leiberg. Rare. South. ELYMUS, L. LymMe-Grass. Wirp Ry#. K. Virginicus, L. Wild Rye. Frequent throughout the state ; less common than the next. E. Canadensis, L. Nodding Wild Rye. Common throughout the state. *SCHEDONNARDUS, Steudel. Spikelets one-flowered, solitary at each joint of the slender triangular rhachis of the paniculate spikes, and partly immersed in an excava- tion ; the spikes alternate and distant ; outer glumes acuminate, unequal, the longer equaling the flowering glume, which is linear-acuminate, and thickish at the keel ; palet shorter and thinner. Vasey’s Grasses of U.S. 170 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. E. Canadensis, L., var. glaucifolius, Gray. Nodding Wild Rye. Throughout the state. Lake of the Woods (sandy shore), Dawson; Martin county, and Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. E. Sibiricus,L. Wild Rye. Red river valley, at Pembina, Havard. North. E. striatus, Willd. Wild Rye. Throughout the state. St. Croix river, Houghton; Ramsey county, Oestlund; Minne- apolis, Simmons; Blue Earth county, Leiberg; New Ulm, Juni; Martin county (plentiful), Cratty. {Lake Superior, Whitney; Manitoba, M acoun.] E. striatus, Willd., var. villosus, Gray. Wild Rye. Also throughout the state. Pembina, Havord; lake Minnetonka, Roberts; Blue Earth county (frequent), Leiberg. E. mollis, Trin. Wild Rye. P Lake shores [probably lake Superior], Minnesota, Wood’s Class-Book. (North of lake Superior, Agassiz.] E. Sitanion, Schultes.* Wild Rye. From northern Minnesota to Texas and west to California, Watson; Blue Earth county and westward, Leiberg. West. ASPRELLA, Willd. (GymMnosticuum, Schreb.) BoTtTLE-BRUSH GRASS. ‘ A. Hystrix, Willd. (G. Hystrix, Schreb.) Bottle-brush Grass. Common, or frequent, throughout the state. DANTHONIA, DC. Witp Oat-GRass. D. spicata, Beauv. Wild Oat-Grass. Throughout the state, but mostly infrequent. Lake of the Woods, Dawson; Stearns county, etc., Upham; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. AVENA, L. Oat. A. fatua, L.F Wild Oats. Ramsey county (new state farm and adjoining land, growing in grain-fields and on waste ground, apparently naturalized and spreading), Oestlund. Extensively natural- ized in California; also found in Texas and Wisconsin, in the latter state becoming very troublesome in oat-fields, Vasey; but not yet reported (so far as known to the writer) in other portions of the United States east of the Rocky mountains. Its seeds ripev early and mostly fall before harvest, rendering its extermination more difficult. It is supposed to be the original of the cultivated oat (A. sativa, L.). *ELYMUS SITANION, Schultes. Culms 4inches to 2 feet high, tufted, and with the leaves and sheaths glabrous or somewhat pubescent or scabrous; spike erect, 1 to 3 inches long, squarrose with its long recurved awns, jointed and fragile at maturity; spikelets in pairs, 2- to 5-flowered, smooth or puberulent; glumes entire or usually parted to the base and the segments unequally 2-cleft, the divisions long-awned (1 to 3 inches); flowers 3 lines long, the awn of the lower palet equaling that of the glumes, with often a subsidiary awn or tooth on each side at the apex of the palet. A very variable grass. Watson’s Rep. in King’s Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. + Avena fatua, L. |sa> = MR Hn 11 49 45 1 1 1 2 3 2 4 8 8 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 g 6 13 51 39 2 2 D, 1 18 17 3 3 3 1 3 3 2 10 9 5 24 15 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 4 9 1 1 1 4 3 9 2 2 1 , 2 5 2 3 2 3 3 3 8 8 if 6 6 24 vel 62 13 62 62 8 23 22 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 5 18 18 3 3 3 1 3 3 2 2 2 17 32 27 i 5 5 1 8 8 8 23 23 4 14 14 2 3 3 aiatatasme GN ares eto 48 222 204 ul 6 6 2 4 4 16 34 34 2 2 2 1 4 4 8 14 13 eae 5 5 1 3 3 17 41 37 1 1 1 3 8 us 15 37 29 6 20 15 3 5 5 3 6 6 2 8 8 2 “14 & 4 13 13 1 2 2 ndigenous species and varieties in the flora of Minnesota, also indigenous in saneee peewee se eeee se ceee ee eee et es ee anes = BROnDw THOR wo: sewers e bw Re BOW Ree EOD _ = ONNRD RRR to b> Cone cos] oo 09 bean RRND OL > _ _ NWOGN WROIND® NHNRPNWH RRA bo tb _ Www CON Nww CIRO © be BPR & to Swe WONWWANW HNKUND RRO RRH ROA Ce _ to Oo ee CO scene -_ DOTUAR OWSIH Pwd HOw Ve is ‘ on | oe 6 | 88 ae 53 35 3. 1 -* Dl eset 4 1"). ose 1 einai 4 onm 27 pb! 2 Apri 8 2 2 Bo 1 iff 6]. oan 10 5 eviews 1 4 1a By Ss ~ ow 1 cle 3 1 7 2) 2 ssc 5 A 3 Si 3 3 | scale 5 ae 6). ciamcmet 52 6 42 12/4 17 4 1 oon haere Abe 16 a 2 1 S [onsen Qi csnetg 22 4 4.) .. accel if 1 q 12 47 11 Bs 3. | va besa 154 32 ; 5 jis sca 4 2.9 10 9 2 1 10 3 4 3 3 3 25 i § jbl A a 7 2 26 om 13 2 5 1 6 u 6.4. came 5 2 11 2 2 2 STATE GEOLOGIST. 185 ORDERS. Gen. | I.g. | Sp. |I.sp.|| Eu, |N. E. |Mich. | Wis. |Iowa. | Neb. | Cal. Asclepiadacez.... 2 2 17 Ter oe et 11 8 13 14. 12 1 Oleacez........... 1 1 5 Bill reieieiote 4 5 5 4 Bileeawen Aristolochiacee .. 2 2 2 DH ames 1 1 1 WiGoddosyeocope Nyctaginacee..... 1 1 3 B | |osccee [ocwncs Jewece 3 3 Dil ciefelsjers Phytolaccaceez.... 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D. Swezey’s Catalogue of the Phenogamous and Vascular Cryp- togamous Plants of Wisconsin, forming chapter V in Geology of Wisconsin, vol. I: 1883 (containing 1473 species and varieties, of which 1337 are indigenous); J.C. Arthur’s Contributions tothe Flora of Iowa, numbers I to VI: 1876 to 1884 (containing 1210 species and varieties, of which 1097 are indigenous); and Prof. Samuel Aughey’s Catalogue of the Flora of Nebraska: 1875 (containing 1718 species and varieties of phenogams and vascular cryptogams, of which 186 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 1648 are indigenous). Acknowledgment is also due to Mr. Arthur for valuable information and suggestions during this work. The preceding table presents comparisons with the four state- catalogues mentioned; and also with the Botany of California (1876. and 1880; by Brewer, Gray, and Watson; 2894 species and 339: varieties, including introduced plants); with the flora of New Eng- land, as indicated by Gray’s Manual (approximately 1364 species. and varieties of native phenogams, 243 introduced phzenogams, and 74 vascular cryptogams); and with the flora of Europe, so far- as it is represented in that of the northern United States, also- shown by Gray’s Manual. From this table it appears that 290 spe- cies and varieties of the indigenous flora of Minnesota are also found: native in Kurope; 1048 in New England; 1210 in Michigan; 1176 in Wisconsin; 949 in Iowa; 1091 in Nebraska; and 335 in California. In submitting this catalogue to readers, students and botanists, it seems desirable to repeat that it claims to be merely a report of progress in an unfinished work. It is hoped that its publication. will incite all the workers in this field to increased efforts, so that the final report of this part of the state survey shall be made as. complete and accurate as possible. The cryptogamic vegetation, as mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi, and alge, will there be cata— logued; and within the province of the present work, there will be incorporated additions and corrections, as well as extension or more: exact limitation in statements of the range of species, so far as: known. For this purpose, botanists are requested to keep full notes of all observations that supplement or amend this catalogue, and to send them, together with specimens of plants found in Min- nesota but not herein recorded, to Prof. N. H. Winchell, curator of the state university museum, Minneapolis. Probably about a tenth part of the total phenogamous flora of the state remains yet to be noted in neglected nooks, in marsh, dense woods, cool ravines, on cliffs and hills, in streams and lakes. Numerous species and varieties new to science quite certainly await. discovery; and it will be interesting in many cases to compare our common and well known plants with specimens of the same gath- ered in distant portions of the country, or even in this region under differing conditions of soil, moisture, or shade. The greater part of the accessions must be expected, of course, near the borders of the state, being often species that are common or frequent beyond our limits but extend only scantily into Minnesota. . INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. Names of orders or families are in SMALL CAPITALS; [Synonyms are enclosed ir brackets ;] introduced species, and genera represented only by introduced species, are. in Italic type. Abele, 131. Abies. 132, 133, Abutiton, 34. Acalypha, 128. ACANTHACER, 102. ACANTHUS FAMILY, 102. Acer, 39. Acerates, 115. Achillea, 84. Acnida, 118, Aeorus, 135. Actzea, 21. oars, Addier’s- Mouth, aden 'S- Tongue, 146, 179. ADDER’S- TONGUE FAMI- | LY, 179. Adenocaulon, Adiantum, 174, Adoxa, 66. Athusa, 61. Agrimonia, 49. Agrimony, 49. Agropyrum, 169. Agrostis, 160. [Aira, 171.] Stes 20, 36, Nider. 128. Aletris, 143. Alexanders, 62. Alfalfa, 41. ALG, 11, 186. ‘ALISMACEZ, 137. Alisma, 138. *Alkali-Grass,”’ 144, Alkanet, 107. Allium, 14, 147. [Allosorus, 175. Alnus, 128, 182. Alopecurus, 160. Alsike Clover, 41, 182. Alum-root, 55, Alyssum, 27. AMARANTA- CE, 118. AMARANTH FAMILY, 118. Amaranth, 118. Amarantus, 118. AMARYLLIDA- CE, 142. AMARYLLIS FAMILY, 142. Ambrosia, 15, 79, 182. Amelanchier, 53. emanates Ammophila, 162. Amorpha, 14, 43. Ampelopsis, 38. pent aeaeers pea, Ree ACEZ, 37. Anacharis, 139. Anagallis, 97. Anaphaiis, 86. Andromeda, 94. Andropogon, 14, 173. Androsace, 96. Anemone, 17. Angelica, 5, 61. Anise Hyssop, 105. } Antennaria, 86. Anthemis, 84. Anychia, 33. Aphyllon, 98. Apios, 47. Aplectrum, 142. se epapDus, 14, APOCYNACER, 11 Apocynum. 113. Apple, 5, 53. Aonte- of-Peru, 1l [AQUIFOLI- ACEZ, 95.] Aquilegia, 14, Arabis, 24, [25,] 181. , ARACEA, 134. ARALIACEA, 63. Aralia, 63. ae bop ‘Vitze, 15, fetta Trail- ing, 93. Archangelica, 61. Archemora, 61. Arctic Rasp- berry, 51. Arctium, 88. Arctostaphylos, 93 Arenaria, 32. Arethusa, 141. Arisema, 134. Aristida, 14, 163. ARISTOLOCHI- ACE, 116. Aristolochia, 116. Arnica, 87. Aromatie Win- tergreen, 15, 93. Arrhenathe- rum, 171. Arrow-grass, 137. Arrow-head, 138. Arrow-wood, 66. Artemisia, 84. Artichoke, 82. ARUM FAM- 1LY, 134. Asarabacea, 116. Asarum, 116. ASCLEPIADA- CE, 114. Asclepias, 14, 114, 182. Ash, (87, 53,) 115. Ash-leaved Ma- ple, 40. Asparagus, 146. Aspen, 130. Asperugo, 108. Asphodel, False, 145. Aspidium, 176. Asplenium, 175. Asprella, 170. Aster, 70, [74,] 183. Astragalus, 14, 43, Atriplex, 117. Avena, 170. Avens, 49. Awlwott, 27. Azolla, 180. Bachelor’s Button, 87. Balm of Gile- ad, 131, 182. Balmony, 99. Balsam, 36. Balsam-apple, 59. Balsam Fir, 15, 133. Balsam Poplar, 130. Baneberry, 21. Baptisia, 47. Barbarea, 25. BARBERRY FAMILY, 21. Barberry, 21, Barley-Grass, 169. Barnyard- Grass, 173. Barren Straw- berry, 49. Basil, 104. Basswood, 35. Bastard Toad- flax, 122. Bath Flower, 144, Bayberry, 127. Beach Pea, 46. Beak-Rush, 152. Bean, 47. Bearberry, 93. Beard-Grass, 14, 173. Beard-tongue, 99 Beaver-Poison, 62. Beckmannia, 14,171. Beckmann’s Grass, 171. Bedstraw, 67. Beech, 127. Beech-Fern,175. Beggav’s Lice, 108. Beggar-ticks, 83. Bellflower, 92. Bellwort. 145. Bengal-Grass, 173. Bent-Grass, 160, 162. BERBERIDA- CE, 21. Berberis, 21. Bergamot, Wild, 104. Berula, 63, 182. Betony, Wood, 102. BETULACE, 128. Betula, 128, 182. Bidens, 83. Big Woods, 13. Bilberry, 92, 93. Bindweed, 110, 120. BIRCH FAMILY, 128. Birch, 128. Birthroot, 144. BIRTHWORT FAMILY, 116. Birthwort, 116. BLED s-Cap, Bistort, Alpine, 118. Bitter Cress, 24. Bitter-nut, 126. Bitter-sweet, (39,) 111. Bitter-weed, 79. Black Alder, 95, 128. Blackberry, 52. Black-cap Raspberry, 51. Black Haw, 66. 188 Black Walnut, 15, 125. aes ive Bladder Ket- mia, 34. Bladder-nut, 39. Bladder-pod, 27. BLADDERWORT FAMILY, 98. Bladderwort,98. Blazing-Star, 14, 68. Blephilia, 105. Blite, 117. Blitum,116,117.] lood-root, 23. BLOODWORT FAMILY, 143. “Bloody War- rior,’’ 101. Blue’ Beech, 127. Bluebell, 92. Blueberry, 15,92. Blue- bottle, 87. Blue Cohosh, 21, Blue-eyed Grass, 143. Blue Flag, 143. Blue -Grass, 167. Blue-Hearts, 100. Blue-Joint, 14, 162, 173. Blue Lettuce,91. Boehmeria, 125. Bog-Rush, 148. Boltonia, 74. Boneset, 70 BORAGE FAM- ILY, 106. BORRAGINA- CE, 106. Botrychium,179. Bottle-brush Grass, 170. Bottle-Grass, 173. Bouncing Bet,31. Bouteloua, 14, 164, Box- Elder, 40. Brachyelytrum, Bracket. 174. Bracted Bind- weed, 110. Brake, 174, 175. Bramble, Bl. Brasenia, 21. Brassica, 26. Bristly Fox-tail Grass, 173. Brittie Fern,177. Brome-Grass, 168 Bromus, 168. Brooklime, 100. Broom- Grass, 173. BROOM-RAPE FAMILY, 98. Broom-rape, 98. Brunella, 105, Buchloe, 14, 165. Buchnera, 100. Buckbean, 113. BUCKTHORN FAMILY, 38. Buckthorn, 38. BUCKWHEAT FAMILY, 118, INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. Buckwheat, 120. { Cardamine, 24, Se Berry, Butialo- Grass, 164, 165. Bugle-weed.104. Bug-seed, 117. Bulrush, 151. Bunch-berry, 64. Burdock, 88. Bur-Grass, 173. Bur-Marigold, 83 Burnet Saxi- frage, 62. Burning-Bush, 39. Bur-Oak, 126. Bur-reed, 135. Bur-seed, 107. Bush-Clover, 46. Bush-Honey- suckle, 65. Butter -and- eggs, 99. Buttereup, 18,19. Butterfly-weed, 115. Butternut, 125. Butter-weed, 74, Butterwort, 98. Button-bush, 67, 182. Button Snake- root, 60, 68. Buttonwood, 125. Cacalia, 86. CACTACER, 59. CACTUS FAMI- LY, 59. “Cactus,” 59. Cakile, 28. [Calamagrostis, Calamint, 104. Calamintha, 104. Ca!lamus, 135. Calla, 134. Callirrhoe, 34. CALLITRICHA- CEA, 122, Callitriche, 122. Calopogon, 141. Caltha, 20. Calypso, 141. [Calystegia, 110.] Camassia, 147. Camelina, 27. CAMPANULA- CE, 92. CAMPANULA FAMILY, 92. Campanula, 92. Campion, 31. Camptosorus, 175. Canary Grass, 171. Cancer-root, 98. Cannabis, 125. CAPER FAMILY, 28. CAPPARIDA- CK, 28. CAPRIFOLI- ACE, 64. Capsella, 27. Caraway, 60. 181. 182. Cardinal Flow- er, 91, 182. Carex, 8, 9, 14, 153, 183. Carpet-weed, 33 Carpinus, 127, Carrion-Flow- er, 143. Carrot, 60. Carum, 60. Carya, 125. CARYOPHYLLA- CE, 31. CASHEW FAMI- LY, 37. Cassandra, 93. Cassia, 47, 181. Cassiope, 94. Castilleia, 101. Catbrier, 143. Catehtly, 31. Catgut, 46. Cat-Mint, 105. Catnip, 105. Cat’s-tail Grass, 160. CAT-TAIL FAM- ILY, 135. aon’ tail Flag, Cattiophyltum, Coaune nie: 39. Cedar, (133,) 134. CELASTRACER, 39. Celastrus, 39. Celtis, 124. Cenchrus, 173. Centaurea, 87. Centunculus, 97. Cephalanthus, 67, 182. Cerastium, 32. CERATOPHYL- LACK, 122. Ceratophyllum, 122. Cercis, 47. Chaffweed, 97. Chamomile, 84. Charlock, 26. Cheat, 15, 168. Checkerberry, 15, 93. Cheilanthes, 175. Chelone, 99. CHENOPODI- ACE, 116. Chenopodium, 116. Cherry, 48. Chess, 168. Chick weed, 32, 33. Chickweed- wiaberewee Gaines 89. Chimaphila, 95. Chinquapin, Water, 22. Chiogenes, 93. Chives, 147. FRekes ‘perry, Choke-Cherry, Christmas- Fern, 177. Chrysanthe- mum, 84. Chrysopogon, 14, 173. Chrysopsis, 78. Chrysosple- nium, 56. Cichorium, 89. Cicuta, 62. Cinna, 161. Cinnamon- Fern, 178. Cinque-foil, 49. Circa, 57. (Cirsium, 88.] CISTACEA, 30. Cladium, 152. Claytonia, 34. Clearweed 125. Cleavers, 67. Clematis, 17. Cleome, 28. Cliff-Brake, 175. Climate, 12. Climbing Bitter- sweet, 39. Clintonia, 15, 145 Clotbur, 79. Clover, 41. CLUB-MOss FAMILY, 179. Club-Moss, 179. Club-Rush, 151. Cnicus, 88. ee 15, (81,) Gocklebur, 79. Cockspur Grass, 173. Cockspur Thorn, 53. Feel -tree, 15, ebosh: 24 Colic- root, 143. Collinsia, 99. Collomia, 14,110. Coltsfoot, 70. Columbine, 20. Comandra, 14, 122. Comfrey, 106, (108.) COMMELYN- ACE, 149. Com pass-Pl ant, 78. COMPOSIT, 68. COMPOSITE FAMILY, 68. Comptonia, 127. Cone-flower, 80. CONIFER, 131. [Conioselinum, 61 Conium, 63. CONVOLVULA- CEH, 110. CoNVOLVULUS FAMILY, 110. Convolvulus, 110. Coptis, 20. Coral-berry, 65. Corallorhiza, 142. Coral-root, 142. Cord Grass, 14, 164. Coreopsis, 82, 182. Corispermum, 117. CORNACEZ, 64. Cornel, 15, 64. Cornus, 64, 181. Corn Salad, 63. Cnn -Plant, Gosvaulia 23. Corylus, 127. Cotton-Grass, 152. Cotton- Thistle, 88. Cottonwood, 131. Couch-Grass, 169. Cowbane, 61, 62. Cowberry, 93. Cow-Herb, 15, 31. Cow-Parsnip, 60 Cowslip, 96, 97. “Cowslip,” 20. ie Wheat, cr wrab-Apple, 5, Ps Grass, Craiberry, 15, Grantee ry- tree, 66. Cranesbill, 36. CRASSULACEZ, 56. Crategus, 52. Creeping Snow- berry, 9 Crepis, 90. Cress, 23, 24, 25, 181. “Crocus,” 17. CROWBERRY FAMILY, 124. Crowberry, 124, CROWFOOT FAMILY, 17. Crowtoot, 18, 19. CRUCIFERZ, 23. Ce ee Cr i ioeaee 63. Cuckoo Flower, 24, 182. CUCURBITA- CEH, 59. Cudweed, 86. ee, Physic, Con Pints 78. CUPULIFERS, 126. Currant, 54. Cuscuta, 110, Cut-grass, 14, 159, Cycloloma, 116, 182. Cymopterus, | 14, 61. Cynogiossum, 108. Cynthia, 89.] YPERACES, 150. Cyperus, 150. CypHnedinms Checoptenis, 177. ' Dactylis, 166. Daisy Flea- bane, 74. Daisy, Ox-eye, 15, 84. Dakota Potato, Daiota Turnip, Daiea, 42. Dalibarda, 51. Dandelion, (89,) 91. Danthonia, 170. Darnel, 169. Datura, 112. Daucus, 60. Dead-N ettle,106, Deerberry, 93. Delphinium, 20, Dentaria, 24. Deschampsia, 171. Desmanthus, 48. DESMIDS, 11. Desmodium, 45, 182. Dewberry, 52. Deyeuxia, 162. Diarrhena, 166. Dicentra, 33. Dicksonia, 178. Didiplis, 58. Diervilla, 65. DIOSCOREA- CER, 143. Dioscorea, 143, 182. [Diplopappus, 73, 74.) DIPSACES, 68. Dipsacus, 68. Direa, 121. Dock, (78,) 120. Dockmackie,66. Dodder, 110. Dodecabheon, DOGBANE FAMILY, 113. Dogbane, 113. Dog # Tennel, 84. Dog’ s-tooth Violet, 146. DoGwoop FAMILY, 64. Dogwood, 64, 181. Dogwood, Poi- son, 37. Door-weed, 119. Draba, 26. Dracocepha- lum, 105. Dragon-Arum, 134. Dragon-head, 105 Dragon-root, 134. Drop-seed Grass, 160, 161. PIR OCERACED; 0. Drosera, 30. Dry Straw- berry, 49. INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA, DUCKWEED FAMILY, 135. Dueckweed, 135. Dulichium. 150. Dutchman’s Breeches, 23. Dutchman’s Pipe, 116. Dwarf Club- Moss, 180. Dwarf Dande- lion, 89. Dyer’s Cleav- ers, 67. Dysodia, 83. Eagle Fern, 174. Hasten -flower, Tieoniat 166. Echinacea, 80. Echinocystis, 59. Echinodorus, 138. Echinosper- mum, 14, 107. Eel-grass, 139. ELMAGNACEX, 121, Elzagnus, 14, 121. Elder, (63,) 66. Elecampane, 78. Eleocharis, 150. Elevations, 11. Ellisia, 109. Elm, 124. Elodes, 31. Elymus, 14, 169. EMPETRACE®, 124, Empetrum, 124. Enchanter’s Nightshade, 57. Epigza, 93. Epilobium, 57. EQUISETACES, 174. Equisetum. 174. Kragrostis, 167. Erechtites, 86. ERICACE®, 92, Erigeron, 74. ERIOCAULONA- CE, 149. Eriocaulon, 149. Eriophorum, 152. Hrodium, 36. Eryngium, 60. Eryngo, 60. Erysimum, 25. Erythronium, 146. Euonymus, 39. Eupatorium, 70. EUPHORBIA- CE, 123. Euphorbia, 14, 123. Euphrasia, 102. Ev uNING- PRIMROSE FAMILY, 57. Evening-Prim- rose, 57. Evergreen, Trailing, 179. Everlasting, 86. Everlasting Pea, 46. pa a i ee ee eS Eyebright, 102, Fagopyrum, 120 Fagus, 127. False Acacia, 43. False Asphodel, 145, False Beech- drops, 95. False Buck- wheat, 120. False Dragon- head, 105. False Flax, 27. False Foxglove, 101. False Grom- well, 106. False Helle- bore, 144. False ‘Indigo, 43, 47. False Lettuce, False Loose- strife, 58. False Mallow, 34. False Miter- wort, 56. False Nettle, 125. False Penny- royal, 103. False Pimper- nel, 100. False Red-top, False Rice, 159. False Rue- Anemone, 20. FalseSolomon’s Seal, 145. False Spike- nard, 145. False Sunflow- er, 79. Feather Gera- nium, 117. Feather-Grass, 163. [Fedia, 68.] A ernal Hawets 1, FERNS, 174. Fescue-Grass, 168. Festuca, 168. Betld: Currant, Fetia Marigold, Hover -wort, 66. FICOIDE®, 33. FIGWORT FAMILY, 98. Figwort, 99. Filbert, 127. FILICES, 174. Fimbristylis, 152. Finger-Grass, 172. Fiorin, 161. Fir, 15, 133. Fire Pink, 31. Fire-weed, 57,86. Five-Finger, 49, a -leat Ivy, Flag, Blue, 143. Flag, Sweet, 135. FLAX FAMILY, 35. Flax, 35, 36. Fleabane, 74, Floating Heart, 113. Fiower-de- Luce, 143. Flower of an Hour, 34. Flowering Dog- wood, 181. Flowering Fern, Flowering Raspberry, 51. Fiy-Honey- suckle, 65. Fog-fruit, 103. Folle Avoine, Poors Parsley, Forest, 12, 183. Forget-me- not, 107. Forked Spike, 173. FOUR-O’CLOCK FAMILY, 116. Fowl Meadow- Grass, 166, 167, Foxgtove, False, 101. Foxtaii Grass, 160, 173. Fragaria, 51. Fraxinus, 115. Fresh-water Cords Grass, 14, Fr resttehta, 118, FROG S-BIT FAMILY, 139. Frost- weed, 30. FUMARIACEX, 23. Fumaria, 23. FUMITORY FAMILY, 23. Fumitory, 23. FUNGI, 10, 186. Gallardo; 14, Guieopate 106. Galingale, 150. Galium, 67. Garget, 116. Garlic, 147. Gaultheria, 93. Gaura, 14, 57. Gay Feather, 68, 69. Gaylussacia, 92. GENTIAN FAM- ILY, 112. Gentian, 112, GENTIANACE, 112, Gentiana, 14, 112. GERANIACE®, 36. GERANIUM FAMILY, 36. Geranium, 36, (117.) Gerardia,14,100. oot DS Ee 189 Germander, 103. German Mud- wort, 108. Geum, 4y, Giant ‘Hyssop, 10 Gill, 105. ““Ginger-root,’”’ 70. GINSENG FAMILY, 63. Ginseng, 63. Glade Mallow, Gidsemrons 117. Glaux, 97. Glyceria, 166. Glyeyrrhiza, 45. Gnaphalium, 86. Goat’s- Beard, 89. Goats’ Rue, 43. Golden Alexan- ders, 62. Golden Aster, 78. Golden Rag- wort, 87. Golden-rod, 75, 182. Golden Saxi- frage, 56. Goldthreaa, 20. Good- King- Henry, 117. Goodyera, 140. Gooseberry, 54. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY, 116. Goosefoot, 116. Goose- -Grass, 7, 119. “Gosling,” 17. GOURD FAM- ILY, 59. Grama, 164. GRAMINEA, 14, 159. Grape, 5, 38. Grape Fern, 179. Graphepho- rum, 165. GRASS FAMILY, (14, 16,) 159, 181. Grass of Par- nassus, 55. Grass Pink, 141. Gratiola, 99. Greek Valeri ian, 109. Greenbrier, 143. Green Milk- weed, 115. Grindelia, 14, 77. Gromwell, 107. Ground Cherry, 111. Ground Fir, 180. Ground Hem- lock, 134. Ground Ivy, 105. Ground Laurel, 93. Ground-nut, 5, 47, 63, Ground-Pine, 179, 180. Ground Plum, 4 3. Groundsel, 86. Gutierrezia, 14, 74, 190 ane rGymmestt: chum, 170.] Habenaria, 139. Hackberry, 124. Hackmatack, 133. H2MODORA- CE, 143. Hair-Grass, 160, 171. Halenia, 112. HALORAGES, 56. HAMAMELA- CES, 56. Hamamelis, 5 Hardhack, e- 182. Harebell, 92. Hart’s Clover, 41. “Hartshorn lant,’ 17. aw, Black, 66. Hawkweed, 89. Hawthorn, 52. Hay as fuel, 164. Hay-scented Fern, 178. Hazel-nut, 127. ‘“Headache- plant,” 17. Heal-all, 105. Heart’s Ease, 29. Heartweed, 119. BEATHFAMILY, 15, 92. Hedeoma, 104. Hedgehog- Grass, 173. Hedge-Hyssop, 99. Dal feng? Mustard, eige Nettle, 106 Hedysarum, 45. Helenium, 84. a SS SE ES SSS SE ee et ee eee Eee ee Heliopsis, 79. ‘Hellebore, 144. pres ek pit 0 150. Hemlock ,(62,63,) 132, 134. Hemlock. Pars- ley, 61. Hemlock- Spruce, 132. Hem, ae) 118,) 1 os bet -Nettle, Sopatlta, 18. Heracleum, 60. Herb Robert, 36. Herd’s-Grass, 160, 161. Heron’s-bill, 36. Heuchera, 55. Hibiscus, 34. Hickory, 15, 125, Hieracium, 89. Hierochloa, 171. Hippuris, 56. Hoary Pea, 43. Hog Pea-nut, 47. pinkie Hennen Helianthemum, 30. Helianthus, 14, 15, 80, 182. INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. -weed, 79. hiow= root, 66. aes 9 Holly, 95. Holly-Fern, t77. Holy Grass, 171. Honewort, 63. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY, 64. Honeysuckle, enor: suckle,’’ 20. Hop, 5, 125. Hop-Horn- beam, 127. Hop- tree, 37. Hordeum, 169, Horehound, (104.) 106. Hornbeam, 127. Horned Pond- weed, 136. HORNWORT FAMILY, 122. Hornwort, 122. Horse Gentian, 66. Horse-Mint, 104. Horse-radish,24. HORSETAIL FAMILY, 174, Horsetail, 174. Horse-weed, 74. Hosackia, 42. Hound’s- Tongue, 108. Houstonia, 67, 182. Huckleberry,15, 92,93. | Hudsonia, 20. Humiulus, 125. Huntsman’s Cup, 22. Hybrids, 103, 130. Hydrastis, 20. HYDROCHARI- DACEZ#, 139. Hydrocotyle,59. HYDROPHYL- LACE, 109. Hydrophyllum, 109. HYPERICACE2, 30. Hypericum, 30, 181. Hypoxys, 142. Hyssop, 99, 105. Ick PLANT FAMILY, 33. Tlex, 95. ILICINE, 95. Ilysanthes, 100. Impatiens, 36. Indian-Chick- weed, 33. Indian Cucum- ber-root, 144. Indian Currant, 65. Indian Fig, 59. Indian Grass, 14, 173. Indian Hemp, 113, 114. Indian Matlow, 34. “Tndian Paint,” 107. Indian Pink, 101. Indian Pipe, 95. Indian Plan- tain, 86. Indian Poke, 144, Indian Rice, 159. Indian Tobac- co, 91. Indian Turnip, 134. Introduced Plants, 15, 182. Inula, 78. IRIDACE®, 143. IRIs FAMILY, 143. Tris, 143. Iron-weed, 68. Iron- wood, 127. Isanthus, 103. Isoetes, 180. Isopyrum, 20. Iva, 15, 78. eg Five-leaf, Ivy, Poison, 37. Jack-in-the- Pulpit, 134. “Jack Pine,” 131. Jamestown- weed, 112. Jerusalem Arti- choke, 82. e Asmar! Oak, Jewel-weed, 36. an -Pye Weed, Jontwead: 119, Judas-tree, 47. JUGLANDA- CER, 125. Juglans, 125. JUNCACE®, 147, Juncus, 147. June- -berry, 53. June Grass, 167. Juniper, 133. Juniperus, 133. Kale, 26. Kalmia, 94. Kentucky Blue- Grass, 167. Kentucky Cof- fee-tree, 15, 48. pee Bean, ST , 93. Knotgrass, 119. Knotweed, 118. Keeleria, 166. Krigia, 89. Kuhnia, 69. LABIATZ, 103. Labrador Tea, 15, 94. Lactuca, 91. Ladies’ Sorrel, 36. perme Tresses, 140. Lady-Fern, 175. Lady’s- Slipper, 142, Lady’s-Thumb, 119. ie Lettuce, 68. SS EE Lamb’s Quar- ters, 116. Lamium, 106. Laportea. 124. Lappa, 88.] arch, 133. Larix, 133. Larkspur, 20. Lathy:us, 46. Laurel, (93,) 94. Laurestinus, 66. Lead- Plant, 43. Leaf-cup 78. Leather-Leaf, 93. Leatherwood, 121. Leaves measur- ed, 35. Lechea, 38. Ledum, 94. Leersia, 14, 159, LEGUMINOS, 1 LEMNACE, 135. Lemna. 135. LENTIBULA- CE, 98. Leonurus, 106. Lepachys, 14, 80, 181. Lepidion, 15, (hepturus 18 , 169.) espedeza, 46 Lettuce, , (68, 90,) [ Leucanthe- mum, 84. | Lever-wood, 127. Liatris, 68. LICHENS, 7, 8, 186. Licorice, 45, 67. Life-root, 87. LILIACES, 144. Lilium, 146. LILY FAMILY, 144. Lily, (22,) 146. Lime-tree, 35. Limits of spe- cies, 14. Limnanthe- mum, 113. LINACES, 35. Linaria, 98. LINDEN FAM- ILY, 35. Linden, 35, Linnea, 64. Linum, 14, 35. Lion’s-heart, 105. Liparis, 141. Lip-Fern, 175. Lippia, 103. Listera, 141. Lithospermum, 107. Live-for-ever, 5 6. Liver-leaf, 18. LIVERWORTS, 7, 186. LIZARD’S-TAIL FAMILY, 122. Lizard’s-tail, 122. LOBELIACES, 91. LOBELIA FAM- ILY, 91. Lobelia, 91, 182. Locust-tree, 43 Lolium, 169. Lombardy Pop- lar, 131. Lonicera, 65. LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY, 58, Loosest’ ife, 58, 97. Lophanth; Lapseel: 103. Lousewort, 102, Incerne, 41. Ludwigia, 58. sep , pine, Lungwort, 107. Lupine, 41. Lupinus, 41. Luzula, 147. Lychnis, 32. Lycium: 112; LYcOPODI- ACEZ5, 179, Lycopodium, 179. Lycopus, 104. Lygodesmia, 90. Lyme-Grass,169, Lysimachia, 97. LYTHRACES, 58. Lythrum, 58. MADDER FAM- ILY, 67. Maianthemum, 145. Maidenhair, 174. Maidenhbair Spleenwort, 175 Male-Fern, 177. MALLOW FAMI- LY, 34. Mallow, 34. MALVACES, 34. Malwa, 34. Malvastrum, 34, Mandrake, 21. Manna-Grass, 166. Manomin, 159. Maple, 5, 39, Mare’s- Tail, 56. M arrubium, 106. Marsh Elder, 78. Marsh Grass, 164. Marsh Mari- gold, 20. Marsh St. Joh 31. MARSILIACE, 180. Marsilia, 180. Maruta, #4.] atrimony- Magchnpl a1 ay-Apple, 21. Mayflower, 93. M ay-weed, 84, Meadow-Grass, 166, 167. Meadow-Pars- nip, 62. eam Rue, Meadow-Sweet, 48. Medeola, 144. Medicago, 41. Medick, 41." SLT YE um, Melanthtum, M ‘elilot, 41. Melilotus, 41. “MENISPERMA- OBA, 21. Menispermum, 21. Mentha, 103. “Menyanthes, 113. Menziesia, 94. Mercury, three- seeded, 123. “Mertensia, 107. MZEREUM FAMILY, 121. Microstylis, 141. “Milfoil, 84. Milium, 171. Milk- Vetch, 43. “MILKWEED FAMILY, 114. Milkweed, 114, 182. “MILKWORT FAMILY, 40. “Milkwort, 40, (97.) Millet, 173. JMimulus, 99. MINT FAMILY, 103. “Mint, 103, (104, 5 105.) Mitchella, 67. Mitella, 55. Miter-wort, 55. Mithridate Mustard, 28. ‘Moccasin -flow- er, 142. “Mock Penny- royal, 104. Mollugo, 33. Monarda, 104. Moneses§, 95. Monkey-flower, Aonottepa: 95. {Montelia, 118.] MOONSEED FAMILY, 21. -Moonseed, 21. Moonwort, 179. Moose-wood, 39; 121. Morus, 124. -Moschatel, 66. IMOssES, 7, 8, 186. _Motherwort, 106. Mountain-Ash, 53. “Mountain-Hol- ly, 95. Mountain-Mint, Mountain Rice, “Mountain Snow,” 123. Mouse-ear Chick weed, 32. _Mouse-ear Cress, 26. Mudwort, 108. Mugwort, 85. Muhlenbergia, 161. INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. eer a 15, 124. [Mulgedium, 91 Mullein, 98. Musk Crowfoot, 66. Muskit-Grass, 14, 164. Musquash-Poi- son, 62. MustTARD FAMILY, 23. Mustard, 15, 25, 26. Myosotis. 107. MYRICACE, 127. Myrica, 127. Myriophyllum, 56, 182. Mugtie Willow, {Nabalus, 90.] NAIADACE, 136. Naias, 136. Nailwort, 33. Napza, 31. LEER LOSE: 70.! N asta tium, 23, Neri weed 100. Negundo, 40 Neillia, 48. Nelumbium, 22, 182. Nelumbo, 22. Nemopanthes, 95. Nepeta, 105. Nesza, 58. NETTLE FAMI- LY, 124. Nettle, (106,) 124. Nettle-tree, 124. New Jersey Tea, 39. Nicandra, 111. Nicotiana, 112. Nigella, 21. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY, 111. Nightshade, 111, 144, Nine-bark, 48. “Norway Pine,” 131. Nuphar, 22. Nut- Rush, 153. NYCTAGINA- CE, 116 NYMPH ACE, 21. Nymphea, 22. OAK FAMILY, 126. Oak, 126, 181. Oakesia, 145. Oak-Fern, 176. Oat-Grass, 171. C&£nothera, 14, 57, 182. Oil-nut, 125. Old-witch Grass, 172. OLEACEZ:, 115. OLEASTER FAM- ILY, 121. Oleaster, 121. OLIVE FAMILY, 115. ‘ONAGRACES, One-flowered Pyrola, 95. One-seeded Star-Cucum- ber, 59. Onion, 147. Onoclea, 177. Onopordon, 88. Onosmodium, 106. OPHIOGLOSSA- CE, 179. Ophioglossum, Gungti: 59. Orange-root, 20. Orchard Grass, 166. ORCHIDACES, 139. ORCHIS FAM- ILY, 139. Orchis, 139, 140. OROBANCHA- CE, 98. ORPINE FAM- ILY. 56. Orpine, 56. Orthocarpus, 14, 102. Oryzopsis, 162. Osier, 128. Osmorrhiza, 63. Osmunda, 178. Ostrich-Fern, 177. Ostrya, 127. Oxalis, 36, 182. Ox-eye, 79. Ox- sae Daisy, 15, Gr yhaphas, 116. Oxytropis, 14, ee horas Cup, 101. Panic-Grass, 172. Panicum, 172. Pansy, 29. PAPAVERACES, 23. Papaver, 23. Papen ey root, Pict 125. Parnassia, 55. PARONYCHIE#, 33. PARSLEY FAMILY, 59. Parsley, él. Parsnip, 61. Partheuium, 78. Partridge- berry, 67. Partr idge Pea, — 47. pasate ones ; 17. Pastinaca, 61. Pearlwort, 33. Pedicularis, 102. Peltlea, 175. Pellitory, 125. Pembina, 67. Pennycress, 28. Pennyroyal, (103,) 104. Penthorum, 56. Fenispemon, 14, 99. Peppergrass, 28. PenperTeiny, 04. Pepper-root, 24. Pepperwort, 28. Petalostemon, 42. Petasites, 70. Peucedanum, 14, 60, 61. Phacelia, 109. Phalaris, 171. Phaseolus, 47. Phegopteris, 8, 175. Phelipza, 98.] hleum, 160. Phlox, 109. Phragmites, 168. Phryma, 103. Physalis, 111. Physic, Cul- ver’s, 100. Physostegia, 105. PHYTOLACCA- CE, 116. Phytolacca, 116. Picea, 132. PICKEREL- Weep ay Piekerel- Weed, pigeon’ Berry, 116. “Pigeon- Grass,’’ 173. Pig-nut, 126. Pigweed, 116, 118. Pilea, 125. Pimpernel, 97. Pimpinella, 62. PINE FAMILY, 15, 131. Pine, 15, 131. Pine-sap, 95. Pinguicula, 98. Eos FAMILY, Pink, 31,101, 141. Pinus, 131. Pinweed, 30. Pipe- Vine, 116. PIPEW ORT FAMILY, 149. Pipewor t, 149. Pipsissewa, 95. Pirus, 53. PITCHER- PLANT FAM- ILY, 22. Pitcher- Plant, 22. PLANE-TREE FAMILY, 125. Plare-tree, 125. PLANTAGI +s A- CE, 96. Plantazo, 14, 96. PLANTAIN FAMILY, 96. Fanaa (74,) Coane CEH, 125. Platanus, 125, ey root, Poduphyllum, 191 PODOSTEMA- CE, 123. Podestemon, 123. Pogonia, 141, Poison Dog- wood, 37. Poison Hem- lock, 63. Poison Ivy, 37. Poison Oak, 37. Poke. 116, 144. POKEWEED FAMILY, 116. Pokeweed, 116. Polanisia, 28. POLEMONIA- CEH, 109. POLEMONIUM FAMILY, 109. Polemouium, 109. POLYGALACER, 40. Polygala, 40. POLYGONACEZ, 118. Polygonatum, 146. Polygonum, 118, 182 Polymnia, 78. Eee, Polenody, 174. Polytzenia, 60. Pomme blanche, 42. Pomme de Prairie, 42. Pomme de Terre, 42, 47. Pond-Lily, 22. PONDWEED FAMILY, 136. Pendweed, 136. PONTEDERIA- CHEZ, 149. Pontederia, 149. Poplar, 130. POPPY FAMILY, 23. Poppy, 2 Poputse 130,182. Porcupine Grass, 14, 163. PORTULACA- CEH, 33. Portulaca, 33. Potamogeton, 136. Potentilla, 14,49. Prairie, 12. Prairie Clover, Prairie Dock,78. Prairie Mallow, 34. Prairie Rocket, “Prairie Smoke,” 17. Prenanthes, 90. Prickly Ash, 37. Prickly Pear,59. Pride of Ohio, 97. PRIMROSE FAMILY. 96. Primrose, 96. PRIMULACES, 96. Primula, 96. Prince’s Feather, 119. 192 Feinogs Pine, Tnaal 48. Psoralea, 42. Ptelea, 37. Pteris, 174. Pterospora, 95. Puccoon, 20, 107. Pulsatilla, 17. PULSE FAMILY, 41. Purple Cone- flower, 80. PURSLANE FAMILY, 33. Purslane, 33. Purslane Speedwell, 100. tele ON 33. Pussy Willow, 129. Putty-root, 142. Fyecnanthe- mum, 104. Pyrola, 94. 95. (Pyrus, 53.) Quarrash, 147. Queen of the Meadow, 48. Quercus, 126, 182. Quitch- or Quick-Grass, 169. Rabbit-foot Clo- ver, 41. Ragweed, 79, 182. Ragwort, 87. Rain-fall, 12,165. Ramsted, 99. RANUNCULA- CHS, 17. Fannacnlns: 14, Reanibenn, 51. gag Yellow, “Rattle-box,” 22, Rattlesnake Fern, 179. Rattlesnake- Grass, 166. Rattlesnake- Master, 60. Rattlesnake- Plantain, 140, Rattlesnake- root, 90. Rattlesnake- weed, 90. Ray-Grass, 169. Red-bud, 47. Red-root, 39, 1 Red oe 161, Redwood river, 64, 154. Reed, 168. Reed Bent- Grass, 162. Reed Canary- Grass, 171. Reed-Grass, 161. Reed-mace, 135. Rein-Orchis, 139. RHAMNACES, 38. Rhamopus, 38. Rhinanthus, 102, ) INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. Rhus, 37. Rhynchospora, 152 Ribes. 54. Rice ee Grass, 14, 159 Rice, Mountain, Rico, Wild, 159. Richweed, 125. “River Locust,” 43. RIVER-WEED ~ FAMILY, 123. River- weed, 123, Robinia, 43. Robin’s Plan- tain, 74. Rock-Brake, 175. Rock Cress, 24, 25, 181. Rocket, 25. ROCK-ROSE FAMILY, 30. Rock-rose, 30. Roman Worm- wood, 79. ROSACE4, 48. Rosa, 52. RosE FAMILY, 48. Rose, 52. Rose-Mallow,34. Rosemary, 94. Rosin-Plant, 78. Royal-Fern, 178, RUBIACE, 67. Rubus, 61, Rudbeckia, 80. Rue-Anemone, 18. eh FAMILY, Ruellia, 102, Rumex, 120. RusH FAMILY, 147. Rush, 148, 150-3. Rush Grass, 160, 182. RUTACES, 37. Sacred Bean, 22, 182. “Sage,” 85, 86, (103. ) Sagina, 33. Sasittaria, 138. SALICACEA, 128. Salicornia, 117, Salix, 128. SALVINTACEA, 180. Sambucus, 66. Samolus, 97. Samphire, 117. SANDALWOOD FAMILY, 122. “Sand-bur,” 173. Sand Cherry, 48. Sand-Reed, 162. Sandwort, 32. Sanguinaria, 23. Sanicle, 60. Sanicula, 60. SANTALACEA, 122. SAPINDACE, 39. Saponaria, 31. SARRACENIA- CE, 22. EE ee ee ee ee ee ee ed Sarracenia, 22. Sarsaparilla, 63. SAURURACEX, 122. Saururus, 122, Savin, 134. SAXIFRAGA- CE, 54. Saxifraga, 55. SAXIFRAGE FAMILY, 54. Saxifrage, 55, (56, 62. Schedonnar- dus, 169. Scheuchzeria, 138. Schollera, 149. Scirpus, 151. Scleria, 153. Scoke, 116. Scorpion-grass, 107. Feokee Thistle, pha Rush, pCaBEune men ACEH, 98. Scrophularia, Scutellaria, 105. Sea Blite, 117. ia Ni Sea-Rocket, 28. Sea Sand-Reed, 162. Sea-side Crow- foot, 18. SEDGE FAMILY, 150. Sedge, 153. Sedum, 66. SELAGINEL- LE#, 180. Selaginella, 180. Self-heal, 105. Selinum, 61. Seneca Grass, ua be Seneca Snake- root, 40. Senecio, 14, 86. Senna, 47, 181. Sensitive Fern, , 177. Sensitive Pea, 47, 181. Service- berry, sears 173 Shad- bush, 53. Shamrock, “41, Shave-Grass, 174. Sheep-berry, 66. Sheep’s Fescue, 168. Shell- bark HHO: 15, Sheil- flower, 99. Shephergaia, 121. Shepherd's Purse, 27. Shield-Fern, 176. Shin-leaf, 94. “Shoe-strings,”’ 43. Shooting Star, 97. Bhraphy, Tre- foil, 37. Shrubs, 13, 183. Sickle- -pod, 25. Sicyos, 59. Side-saddle flower, 22. Silene, 31. Silkweed, 114. Silpbium, 78. Silver-Berry, 14, Silver-weed, 50. Sisymbrium, 26. Sisyrinchium, 143. Sium, 63, Skulleap, 105. Skunk Cab- bage, 134. skunk Currant, sipuery Eln, 124. Smartweed, 119. SMILACE®, 143. Smilacina, 145. SMILAX FAM- ILY, 143. Smilax, 143, 183. Smooth Lung- wort, 107. Snake-head, 99. Snakeroot, 60, 68, 70. Snakeroot, Sen- eca, 40. eae -weed, Snowberry, 15, 65, 93. Snow-fall, 12. SOAPBERRY FAMILY, 39. Soapwort, 31. Soapwort Gen- tian, 113. Soil, 12. SOLANACER, 111, Solanum, 111. Solidago, 75, 182, 183. Solomon’s Seal, Sorghum, 173. ] ee Eat (36,) 120, 21. Bou Thistle, 91. Sparganium, 135. Spare. 14, 164. Spatter -Dock, Speak Greets 167 Spearmint, 103. Spearwort, 18. Specularia, 92. Speedweil, 100. Speirodela, 135. BDNer flower, SripERWonk FAMILY, 149. Spiderwort, 149. Spikenard, 5, 63. Spike- Rush, 150. Spindlestree, Sninends 48, 182. Spiranthes, 140. Spleenmonis Sperotiaiiae 14,, 60, 182. Spring- -Beauty.. anedaes 16, 132. SPURGE FAM- ILY, 123. Spurge, 123. Spurred Gen- tian, 112. Squaw-Huckle- berry, 93. Ba Squirrel Corn, Stachys, 15, 106. STAFF-TREE FAMILY, 39. Stafi-tree, 39. Staphylea, 39 i Cucumber,,. Star-flower, 97. Star-grass, 142, 143, 149. Starry Cam- ion, 31. tar-Thistle, 87. Starwort, 32, 70, 122. Pee, Bush, Steironema, 97. Stellaria, 32, 181. Stickseed, 107. Stick- -tight, 83, 108. Se ee 32, stipa 14, 163. . JOHN’S-- Wane FAMILY,. 30. St. John’s-wort,. 30, 181. Stone- -crop, 56. Storksbill, 36. Stramonium, 112. Strawberry, 51.. Strawberry Blite, 117. Strawberry bush, 39. Streptopus, 145. [Struthiopteris, 177.) Suzeda, 14, 117. Subularia, 27. Succory, 89. Sugar, 40. Sugarberry, 124, Sullivantia, 55. Sumach, 37. SUNDEW FAM- ILY, 30. Sundew, 30. Sundrops, 58, 182. Sunflower, 14, (79,) 80, (83, ) 182. Sweet Cicely, 63. Sweet Clover, 41. Sweet Coltsfoot,. 70. Sweet-Fern, 127. Sweet Flag, 135. SwEET-GALE FAMILY, 127+ Sweet-Gale, 127. Sweet Scabious, 74, Sycamore, 125. Sy mphoricar- pos, 65. Symphytum, 106. Symplocarpus, 134s Synthyris, 100. Tacamahac, 131, “Tag Alder,” 128. Talinum, 33. Tamarack, 15, 133. Tanacetum, 84. Tansy, 84. Tansy Mustard, age: -grass, 139. Taraxacum, 91. Tare, 46, 182. TAXACE®, 134. Taxus, 134. Tea, 39, 94. Tear-thumb, 120. TEASEL FAM- ILY, 68. Teasel, 68. Tephrosia, 43. Teucrium, 103. Thalictrum, 18. Thaspium, 62. Seelypodium, Mimpleberry; 51 Thin- Grass, 160. TBH, 15, (87,) Thiaspi, 28. Thorn, 52. Thorn -apple, Buurduphwort, 70, Three-leaved Nightshade, ~ 144 Three-seeded Mercury, 123. Thuya, 133. THYMELEA- CE, 121. Tiarelia, 56. Tickseed, 82,182. Tick-Trefoil, 45, 182. TILIACE®, 35. Tilia, 35. Timothy, 160. Toad-Fiax, 98, 122.) obacco,(91,) 112. Tofieidia, 145. pecuiache- -tree, opti ort, 24. Toul aphy, 11. Touch-me-not, Tower Mustard, ‘Tradescantia, 149. Tragopogon, 89. INDEX TO THE FLORA OF MINNESOTA. Trailing Arbu- tus, 93. Treacle Mus- tard, 25. Tree culture, 130 Trees, 13-15, 183. Trefoil, Shrub- by, 37. Trentalis, 97. Trifolium, 41, 182. Triglochin, 137. Trillium, 144 Triosteum, 66. Triple-awned - Grass, 163. Trisetum, 171. [Triticum, 169.] Troximon, 14,89. Trumpet- weed, 70. Tsuga, 132. “Tule? 151. Tumble-weed, 118. Turtle-head, 99. Tussilago, 70. Twayblade, 141. Twin-flower, 64. Twisted-stalk, 145. TYPHACES, 135. Typha, 135. Ulmus, 124. UMBELLIFERZ, 59. URTICACE, 124. Urtica, 124. Utricularia, 98. Uvularia, 145. Vaccaria, 31.1 accinium, 92. VALERIAN FAMILY, 68. Valerian, 68, 109.) * ALERIANA-~ CE, 68. Valeriana, 68. Valerianella,68. Vallisneria, 139. Vanilla Grass, 171. x Vegetable Oyster, 89. aha - Leaf, 34, Venus’s Look- ing-Glass, 92. Veratrum, 144. Verbascum, 98. VERBENACES, 103. Verbena, 103. Vernonia, 68. Veronica, 100. VERVAIN FAMILY, 103. Vervain., 103. Vesicaria, 14, 27. Vetch, 46, 182. Vetchling, 46. Viburnum, 66, Vicia, 46, 182. [Vilfa, 160 ] VINE FAMILY, 38. VIOLACE2, 28. Viola, 28. VIOLET FAMILY, 28. Violet, 28. Virginian Creeper, 38. Virgin’s-Bower, VITACES, 38. Vitis, 38. Waahoo, 39. | Water Ash, 37. Wake-Robin, 144. Waldsteinia, 49. Walking-leaf, 175. Wall-flower, 25. WALNUT FAM- ILY, 125. Walnut, 15. 125. Wapsipinicon river, 138. Watab, 133. Water Arum, 134. Wee Beech, Water Chinqua- pin, 22, 182. Water-Cress, 28, 24, 181. Water-Crow- foot, 18. Water Drop- wort, 61 Water-Hem- lock, 62. Water-Hemp, 118. Water Hore- hound, 104. WATERLEAF FAMILY, 109. Waterleaf, 109. WATER- LILY FAMILY, 21. Water-Lily, 22. Water Mari- gold, 83. W ATER-MIL- noe FAMILY, Water -Milfoil, 56, 182. Water ymph, Water Oats, 159. Water-Parsnip, 63, 182, Water Penny- wort, 59. Water-Pepper, 119 WATER-PLAN- TAIN FAMILY, 137. Water-Plan- tain, 138. Water-Plan- tain Spear- wort, 18, Water-Purs- lane, 58. Water- Shield, Water Star- grass, 149, WATER STAR- WORT FAMILY, 122. Water-Star- wort, 122. Water-weed, 139. Wax-Myrtle, 127 Wax-work, 39. W eather- -glass, 97. Weather-grass, 63. Weeds, 15. Wheat-Grass, 169. ite Grass, White Lettuce, White Pine, 132. oe weed, 16, Whitewood, 35. Whitlow: -Gr. ass, | Wurrtow- MORE FAMILY, Whitiow- wort, Whior tleberry, Wild Balsam- apple, 59. Wild Bean, 47. Wild Bergamot, 104. Wild Calla, 134. Wild Chess, 168. Wild Comfr: ey, 108. Wie Currant, Wild Flax, 35. Wid Ginger, 116. Wid Gooseber- 54. wild Hyacinth, wild Indigo, 47. Wild Leek, 147. Wild Licorice, 45, 67. Wild Oat-Grass, 170. Wild Oats, 1707 Wild Onion, 147, wad Plum, 5, 48. Wild Rice, 5, 159. Wild Rose- mary, 94. Wild Bye, 169. Wild Senna, 181. Wild Sweet- William, 109. ee Tobacco, 11 WILLOW FAM- ILY, 128. Willow, 128. Watlaes -herb, Xie Wind-flower, 193 Winged Pig- weed, 116, 182. Winterberry, Winter Cress, Wiktevevece: 15, 93, 94, 95, 97. Wire- Grass, 167. Witch- -Grass, 169, (172.) WITcH-HAZEL FAMILY, 56. Witch-Hazel,56. Withe-rod, 66. Wolfberry, 65. W olffia, 135. Wood Anem- one, 17. Wood Betony,,. 102. Woodbine, 65. “W oodbine,’’38: Wood-Fern, 176. Mood: -Grass, i Wood: -Nettle,. Wood Reed- Grass, 161. Wood-Rush, Wood Sage, 103.. Woodsia, 8, 177. Wood Sorrel, 36, 182. Wool-Grass, 182. Worm-seed Mustard, 25. Wor mwood (79,) Weagdwort, 106; Xanthium, 79. ac ieemerae XYRIDACEX; 149. Xyris, 149. yam FAMILY, 143. Yam, 143, 182. Yam- root, 143, 182. Yarrow, 84. YELLOW-EYED- GRASS FAMILY, 149. Yellow-eyed Grass, 149, Yellow Medi- cine river, 21. Yellow Rattle, 102. YEW FAMILY, 134, Yew, 134. Zannichellia, 136. (Zanthoxylum, 37, Zizania, 159. ae , 62.1 ygadene, 144, Zygzadenus, 144. PUBLICATIONS OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF MINNESOTA. u I. ANNUAL REPORTS, Tue First ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NatTuRAL History Survey oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1872. 112 pp., 8vo.; with a col- ored map of the state. By N. H. Winchell. Published in the Regents’ Report for 1872. Out of print. SEconD EDITION issued, 1884. THE Seconp ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL History Survey OF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1873. 145 pp., 8vo.; with illustra- tions. By N. H. Winchell and S. F. Peckham. Published in the Regents’ Report for 1873. Out of print. Tar Turrp ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND Natura History Survey oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1874. 42 pp., 8vo.; with two county maps. By N.H. Winchell. Published in the Regents’ Report for 1874. Out of print. Tur FourtH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NaturAu History Survey or MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1875. 162 pp., 8vo.; with four county maps and a number of other illustrations. By N. H. Winchell, assisted by M. W. Harrington, Also in the Regents’ Report for 1875. Tar Firra ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NatuRaL History | Survey oF MrInnEsoTA, FOR THE YEAR 1876, 248 pp., 8vo.; four colored maps and several other illustrations. By N. H. Winchell; with reports on Chemistry by S. F. Peckham, Omithology by P. L. Hatch, Entomology by Allen Whitman, and on Fungi by A. E. Johnson. Also in the Regents’ Re- port for 1876. Tue Srxtn AnnuaL REPoRT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND Natura History Survey oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1877. 226 pp., 8vo.; three geological maps and several other illustrations. By N.H. Winchell; with reports on Chemical Analyses by S. F’. Peckham, on Ornithology by P. L. Hatch, on Entomology by Allen Whitman, and on Geology of Rice county by L. B. Sperry. Also in the Regents’ Report for 1877, Out of print. Tur SreventH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HIsToRY Survey oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1878. 123 pp., 8vo.; with twenty- one plates. By N.H. Winchell; with a Field Report by C. W. Hall, Chemical Analyses by S. F'. Peckham, Ornithology by P. L. Hatch, a list of the Plants of the north shore of Lake Superior by B. Juni, and an Appendix by C. L. Herrick on the Microscopic Entomostraca of Minnesota (twenty-one plates). Also in the Regents’ Report for 1878. ¥ LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, Tue Erenta ANNUAL REPoRT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND Natural History _ Survey oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1879. 183 pp., 8vo.; one plate (Cas- - toroides). By N.H. Winchell. Containing a statement of the methods of Microscopic Lithology, a discussion of the Cupriferous Series in Minnesota, _ and descriptions of new species of brachiopoda from the Trenton and Hudson River formations; with reports on the Geology of Central and Western Minne- _ sota, by Warren Upham; on the Lake Superior region, by C. W. Hall; lists Birds and of Plants from Lake Superior, by Thomas S. Roberts; Chemical Analyses by S. F'. Peckham; report by P. L. Hatch; and four Appendixes. Also in the Regents’ Report for 1879 and 1880. Tue Ninto ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL History SuRVEY oF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1880. 392 pp., 8vo.; three appen- dixes, two wood-cut illustrations, and six plates. By N. H. Winchell. Con- taining field descriptions of 442 crystalline rock samples, and notes on their geological relations, from the northern part of the state; new brachiopoda; the water supply of the Red River Valley, and simple tests of the qualities of water; with reports on the Upper Mississippi region, by O. E. Garrison; on _ the Hydrology of Minnesota, by C, M. Terry; on the Glacial Drift and its Terminal Moraines, by Warren Upham; Chemical Analyses by J. A. Dodge; a list of the Birds of Minnesota, by P. L. Hatch; and of the Winter Birds, by Thomas S. Roberts. Also in the Regents’ Report for 1879 and 1880. Tue Trento ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL History _ SURVEY or MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1881. 254 pp., 8vo.; with ten wood- cut illustrations, and fifteen plates. By N.H. Winchell. Containing field descriptions of about 400 rock samples and notes on their geological relations, continued from the last report; the Potsdam sandstone; typical thin sections of the rocks of the Cupriferous Series; and the deep well at the ‘‘C” Washburn mill, Minneapolis; with Geological notes by J. H. Kloos; Chemical Analyses by J. A, Dodge; and papers on the Crustacea of the fresh waters of Minnesota (eleven plates), by C. Z. Herrick. Also in the Regents’ Report for 1881 and 1882. Toe ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND Natura His- TORY SURVEY OF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR 1882. 219 pp.,8vo.; with three wood-cut illustrations and one plate. By N. H. Winchell. Containing a re- port on the Mineralogy of Minnesota, and a note on the Age of the rocks of the Mesabi and Vermilion iron districts; with papers on the Crystalline rocks of Minnesota, by A. Streng and J. H. Kloos; on Rock outcrops in central Minnesota, and on Lake Agassiz, by Warren Upham; on the Iron region of northern Minnesota, by Albert H. Chester; Chemical Analyses by J. A. Dodge; and an Appendix containing Minnesota Laws relating to Mines and Mining, abstracted by C, L. Herrick. Also in the Regents’ Report for 1881 and 1882. II. FINAL REPORT. THEe Grotocgy or Minnesota. Vou. I. or THE Finan Report. 1884; xiv and 697 pp., quarto; illustrated by 43 plates and 52 figures. By N. H. Winchell, assisted by Warren Upham. Containing an Historical sketch of Explorations and Surveys in Minnesota, the general Physical features of the state, the Build- ing stones, and the Geology of Houston, Winona, Fi!lmore, Mower, Freeborn, Pipestone, Rock and Rice counties, by N. H. Winchell; the Geology of Olm- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. sted, Dodge and Steele counties, by M. W. Harrington; and the Geology of Waseca, Blue Earth, Faribault, Watonwan, Martin, Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Brown, Redwood, Yellow Medicine, Lyon, Lincoln, Big Stone, Lac qui Parle and Le Sueur counties, by Warren Upham. Distributed gratuitously to.all public libraries and county auditors’ offices in the state, to other state libraries and state universities, and to leading geologists and scientific societies; the remainder are held for sale at the cost of publication, $3.50 per copy in cloth, or $5 in grained half roan binding, upon application to Prof. N. H. Winchell, Minneapolis. III) MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. 1. Crecutar No. 1. A copy of the law ordering the survey, and a note ask- ing the co-operation of citizens and others. 1872. 2. Peat ror Domsstic Fugu. 1874. Edited by S. F’. Peckham. 3. REPORT ON THE SALT SPRING LANDS DUE THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. A history of all official transactions relating to them, and a statement of their amount and location. 1874. By N. H. Winchell. 4. A CATALOGUE OF THE PLants OF MINNESOTA; prepared in 1865 by Dr. I. A. Lapham, contributed to the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, and published by the State Horticultural Society in 1875. 5. Crrcunrar No.2. Relating to Botany, and giving general directions for collecting information on the flora of the state. 1876. 6. CrrcutaR No. 38. The establishment and organization of the Museum. 1877. 7. Crrcutar Neo. 4. Relating to duplicates in the Museum and exchanges. FY 1878. ; 8. Tur Burnpine Stones, Cuays, Limes, CEMENTS, ROOFING, “FLAGGING * AND Pavine Stones oF Minnesora. A special report by N. H. Winchell. . 1880. 9. Crecunar No. 5. To Quarrymenand Builders. Relating to the collection of two-inch cubes of building stones for physical tests. of strength, and for chemical examination, and samples of clay and brick for the General Museum. 1880. ; : 10. CrrcuntaR No. 6. To owners of mills and unimproved water-powers. 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