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long, the upper shorter; flowers blue; sepals anu spur about equal in 

 length, puberulent; spur straight, nearly 2 cm. long; sepals narrowly 

 ovate; bractlets borne somewhat below the calyx; lower petal yellow- 

 bearded; follicles 3, erect, slightly pubescent. In barrens, Mo. May- 

 June. 



P. 431, after Thalictrum dioicum, insert: 



3a. Thalictrum occidentale A. Gray. WESTERN MEADOW-RUE. Root- 

 stock slender. Stem glabrous, i m. high, or less, bearing 3-6 leaves; 

 leaves glaucous beneath and sometimes minutely glandular, the upper 

 short-petioled; leaflets thin, reniform to obovate, their lobes few, rounded; 

 flowers dioecious or polygamo-dicecious, in panicles 1.5-3 d m - high; 

 achenes 6-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, flattened, 2-edged, strongly 3-ribbed 

 on each side, the ribs somewhat branching; persistent style filiform, half 

 as long as the achene, or more; filaments yellowish-green to purplish, 

 slightly clavate. Me. and New Brunswick; Manitoba and Mont, to the 

 Pacific Coast. May-July. 



P. 482, after Heuchera villosa, insert: 



Heuchera macrorhiza Small. BIG-ROOTED HEUCHERA. Similar to H. 

 villosa, but stouter, the rootstock thicker and woody; pubescence of the 

 stem and petioles denser; leaf-Lobes shorter and broader, their margins 

 copiously villous-ciliate; pedicels more villous than the turbinate calyx; 

 capsule longer, twice as long as the calyx. River-banks, Tenn. and Ky. 



P. 518. Additional species of Crataegus have been described by Mr. 

 W. W. Ashe in " Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society " and 

 in " Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station," and 

 by Mr. C. D. Beadle and Prof. C. S. Sargent in the "Botanical Gazette." 



P- 553, after Astragalus Robbinsii, insart: 



223. Astragalus Jesupi (Eggleston & Sheldon) Britton. JESUP'S MILK 

 VETCH. Similar to A. Robbinsii, but with larger, darker purple flowers, 

 the pod longer, acuminate, somewhat triangular in section, with a dorsal 

 groove, and a stipe equalling or longer than the calyx. In rocky places, 

 Me., N. H., Vt. (A. Robbinsii Jesupi Egg. and Sheld?) 



P. 563, after Lespedeza Nuttallii, insert: 



3a. Lespedeza Brittonii Bicknell. BRITTON'S BUSH-CLOVER. Light 

 green and densely cinereous-pubescent, especially above, the upper sur- 

 face of the leaves glabrate; stems ascending, 0.5-1 m. long, wand-like, 

 bearing short flowering branches and reduced leaves above, often longer 

 branched about the middle; leaves short-petioled; petioles 2-10 mm. long; 

 leaflets oblong, rounded or contracted at base and apex, 20-45 mr n- long, 

 8-20 mm. wide; terminal flower-clusters short-spicate on slender pedun- 

 cles 2-5 cm. long; lower peduncles short and few-flowered, or bearing 

 clustered cleistogamous flowers; coralla pinkish-purple, much surpassing 

 the attenuate calyx-lobes, 6-8 mm. long; pod ovate or ovate-oblong, 4.5- 

 6.5 mm. long, acute, canescent or short-pubescent, twice the length of the 

 calyx-lobes or less. Dry soil, Bronxville, N. Y. City. Also eastern Mass, 

 and N. J. Aug.-Sept. 



P. 564, before Lespedeza angustifolia, insert: 



ga. Lespedeza velutma Bicknell. VELVETY BUSH-CLOVER. With the 

 habit and appearance of L. capitata, but densely soft-velvety all over, with 

 somewhat cinereous pubescence, the younger parts velvety-canescent, 0.5- 

 1.2 mm. high, often bushy-branched above; leaves crowded, ascending, the 

 petioles 3-7 mm. long; leaflets oblong, narrowed to the base, rounded at 

 the apex, 25-40 mm. long, 8-18 mm. wide, velvety on both surfaces, 

 tomentose-ciliate; inflorescence very dense, of crowded short clusters; 



