ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
Page 59.—Argemone Mexicana. Collected at Merodosia, Ill., with white flowers, by A. B. Seymour.
Page 75.—Insert after Cleome integrifolia—
C. spinòsa, L. Viscid-pubescent, 3–4° high; a pair of short stipular spines under the petiole of each leaf; leaflets 5–7, oblong-lanceolate; flowers large, rose-purple to white; stamens 2–3´ long; stipe of the linear pod about 2´ long. (C. pungens, Willd.)—An escape from cultivation, near Mt. Carmel, Ill. (Schneck), and in waste grounds southward; also on ballast. (Int. from Trop. Amer.)
Page 86.—Arenaria Grœnlandica. Found on Mt. Desert Island, Maine (Rand).
Page 87.—Stellaria borealis. In the mountains of northern N. J.
S. humifusa. This species has also been found on Cranberry Island, near Mt. Desert, Maine, by J. H. Redfield.
Page 91.—Under Talinum teretifolium add the character—style equalling the stamens.—Insert
2. T. calycìnum, Engelm. Leaves somewhat broader; flowers and capsules larger; stamens 30 or more; style twice longer than the stamens, declined.—Central Kan. to W. Tex.
Under Claytonia insert—
3. C. Chamissònis, Esch. Weak, procumbent or ascending, rooting below and perennial by lateral and terminal filiform runners; leaves several pairs, oblong-spatulate, 1–2´ long; inflorescence racemosely 1–9-flowered; petals pale rose-color; capsule small, 1–3-seeded.—In a cold ravine, Winona Co., Minn.; in the mountains from Colorado north and westward.
Page 211.—Hydrocotyle Americana. Add—propagating by filiform tuberiferous stolons.
Page 230.—Insert after the genus Dipsacus—
2. SCABIOSA, Tourn. Scabious.
Characters of Dipsacus, but the green leaves of the involucre and involucels not rigid nor spinescent. (Name from scabies, the itch, from its use as a remedy.)
S. austràlis, Wulf. Perennial, sparsely branched, nearly glabrous, 1½–3° high; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, the lower oblanceolate, slightly toothed or entire; heads short-oblong; calyx obtusely short-lobed; corolla pale blue.—Central N. Y. and Penn.; rare. (Adv. from Eu.)
Page 395.—After Orobanche minor insert—
O. ramòsa, L. Often branched, 6´ high or less, of a pale straw-color; flowers 3-bracteate, the lateral bracts small; calyx 4-toothed, split at the back; corolla pale blue, 6–8´´ long.—On the roots of hemp and tobacco; Ky. (Int. from Eu.)
Page 421.—After Lamium purpureum insert—
L. intermèdium, Fries. Resembling L. purpureum, but the calyx-teeth longer than the tube, the rather narrower corolla without a hairy ring within near the base, and the nutlet longer (3 times as long as broad).—Cultivated fields near Hingham, Mass. (C. J. Sprague). (Adv. from Eu.)
Page 427.—Insert in the generic key—
5. Cladothrix. Flowers perfect, minute, axillary. Densely white-tomentose.
Page 430.—Insert after the genus Frœlichia—
5. CLADÓTHRIX, Nutt.
Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5, erect, rigid-scarious, somewhat pilose. Stamens 5, the filaments united at base; anthers large, 1-celled. Stigma large, capitate, 2-lobed. Utricle globose, indehiscent.—Densely stellate-tomentose low herbs or woody at base, with opposite petiolate leaves and very small flowers solitary or few in the axils. (Name from κλάδος, a branch, and θρίξ, hair, for the branching tomentum.)
1. C. lanuginòsa, Nutt. Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3–10´´ long.—Central Kan. (Meehan) and southwestward.
Page 435.—Salsola Kali. This species has been found in Emmet Co., Iowa (Cratty), at Yankton, Dak. (Bruhin), and in river-bottoms in N. W. Neb. and central Dak.
Page 437.—After Eriogonum annuum insert—
2. E. Allèni, Watson. Perennial, white-tomentose throughout, the tall scape-like stem repeatedly dichotomous above; radical leaves lanceolate, long-petiolate, the upper in whorls of 4 or 5, ovate to oblong-ovate, very shortly petiolate, much reduced above; involucres mostly sessile; flowers glabrous, yellow, the segments elliptical.—Near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (T. F. Allen).
Page 445.—Asarum Canadense. In this species there are rudimentary subulate petals, alternate with the calyx-lobes.
Page 463.—Celtis Mississippiensis. Common in low river-bottoms of W. Mo. (F. Bush); described as having a very smooth trunk, like a sycamore, and soft yellowish brittle wood, not coarse-grained as in C. occidentalis.
Page 491.—Under Pinus add—
10. P. ponderòsa, Dougl., var. scopulòrum, Engelm. Leaves in twos or usually threes from long sheaths, 3–6´ long, rather rigid; staminate flowers 1´ long; cones subterminal, 2–3´ long, oval, often 3–5 together, the prominent summit of the thick scales bearing a stout straight or incurved prickle.—Central Neb. and westward in the Rocky Mountains.—A large tree with very thick bark.
Page 514.—After Iris Caroliniana insert—
2a. I. hexágona, Walt. Stems flexuous, often low and slender (1–3° high), leafy; leaves much exceeding the stem, 6–12´´ broad; flowers solitary and sessile in the axils, large, deep blue, variegated with yellow, purple, and white; tube ½´ long; segments about 3´ long, the inner narrow; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6-angled, 2´ long—Prairies, Ky. (Short) to W. Mo. (Bush), and on the coast from S. Car. southward.
Page 515.—Sisyrinchium angustifolium. What appears to be a form of this species with pale yellow flowers is found near Independence, Mo. (Bush).
Page 516.—Under Zephyranthes Atamasco insert the synonym (Amaryllis Atamasco, L.).
Page 555.—Sagittaria teres has been collected also at Brewster, Mass. (Farlow).
Page 575.—After Eleocharis Torreyana insert—
13a. E. álbida, Torr. Like n. 12 and 13 in habit, somewhat stouter; spikelet dense, ellipsoidal or oblong, 1–4´´ long, acutish, with pale obtuse scales; achene very small, triangular-obovate, very smooth, with a broadly triangular tubercle upon a narrow base, shorter than or exceeding the reddish bristles.—Salt marshes, Northampton Co., Va. (Canby), and south to Fla. and Tex.
Page 653.—Trisetum subspicatum, var. molle, is reported from Roan Mt., N. C. (Scribner), and probably occurs on the higher Alleghanies northward.
Page 662.—After Melica diffusa insert—
3. M. Pórteri, Scribn. Tall and slender; panicle very narrow, the slender branches erect or the lower slightly divergent; pedicels flexuous or recurved, pubescent; glumes very unequal and shorter than the spikelet; fertile flowers 3–5, the glumes scabrous.—Mountains of Col. and southward; reported from Cass Co., Neb. (J. G. Smith).
Page 663.—Distichlis maritima. On alkaline soil in Neb., and very common in similar localities west and southwestward; chiefly the var. strícta, Thurb., with setaceously convolute leaves, the many- (10–20-) flowered spikelets in a loose panicle.
LIST OF ORDERS,
WITH THE NUMBER OF GENERA AND SPECIES,
NATIVE AND INTRODUCED.
Total of Genera 963
Total of Species 3298