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corolla 7-^8.5 mm. long, about equalling the calyx-lobes, the standard pure 

 white, with purplish-streaked centre; pod narrowly rhomboid-oblong, 

 narrowed to each end, 5-6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, canescently pubescent, 

 much shorter than the calyx-lobes. Low thicket near Woodlawn, N. Y. 

 City. Also in eastern Mass. Sept. 



P. 638, for " Viola alsophila Greene " read " Viola LeConteana Don ", 

 the older name. 



P. 640. Additional species of Viola have been described by Prof. E. L. 

 Greene in " Pittonia." 



P. 668, at bottom, add: 



3. ECHINOPANAX Dec. & PI. 



A densely prickly shrub, with palmately lobed leaves and racemed or 

 panicled umbels of small greenish-white flowers. Calyx-teeth obsolete; 

 petals 5, valvate; stamens 5; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or ovate; 

 ovary 2-3-celled; styles 2; stigma terminal; fruit laterally compressed. 

 (Greek, prickly Panax.) A monotypic genus of northwestern North 

 America and northeastern Asia. 



i. Echinopanax horridum (J. E. Smith) Dec. & PI. DEVIL'S CLUB. 

 Stems erect from a decumbent base, 1-4 m. high, densely prickly, leafy 

 above; leaves nearly orbicular in outline, 1.5-6 dm. broad, cordate at the 

 base with a rather narrow sinus, 3~7-lobed, with scattered prickles on 

 both sides and puberulent beneath, the lobes acute, sharply irregularly 

 serrate; inflorescence wooly, terminal, 1-3 dm. long; peduncles subtended 

 by a narrow laciniate bract; pedicels filiform; stamens about twice as long 

 as the ovate petals; fruit 4-5 mm. long, scarlet. In rocky places, Isle 

 Royale, Lake Superior (according to W. A. Wheeler); Mont, to Ore. and 

 Alaska. June. 



P. 671, after Hydrocotyle verticillata, add: 



3a. Hydrocotyle australis C. & R. SOUTHERN MARSH-PENNYWORT. Like 

 H. verticillata, the inflorescence proliferous; pedicels 2-4 mm. long; fruit 

 about 2 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, rounded at the base. In wet soil, Va. 

 to Fla. and Tex., near the coast. Differs from H. verticillata in the longer 

 pedicels, and from H. Canbyi in the unnotched fruit. 



P. 673, before Sanicula Canadensis, insert: 



2a. Sanicula Smallii Bicknell. SMALL'S SNAKEROOT. Stem 25-40 cm. 

 tall, usually simple, widely 2-forked above; leaves slender-petioled, sub- 

 coriaceous, dull green, paler beneath, 3-divided, the lateral segments cleft 

 or parted; divisions obovate or broadly rhomboid, mostly obtuse, dentate- 

 serrate with aculeate teeth, often incised, 4-8 cm. long; stem-leaves 3-4, 

 the opposite upper pair subsessile and 3-cleft; rays of umbel 2-6, spread- 

 ing; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; sepals finally spreading, linear, cuspidate; 

 anthers little exserted; petals yellowish or greenish, obovate, shorter than 

 the sepals; fruits 3-6, closely sessile, subglobose, 5-6 mm. long, the 

 bristles slender; styles slender, spreading, about the length of the calyx- 

 segments; oil-tubes 5. Rich or rocky woods, Fla. and Ga. to Mo. May- 

 June. 



P. 678, for " Apium leptophyllum " read " Apium Ammi (L.) Urban ", 

 the older name.. 



P. 679, after Cicuta maculata, insert: 



la. Cicuta Curtissii C. & R. CURTISS' WATER-HEMLOCK. Similar to 

 Cicuta inaculata, but with thicker ovate-lanceolate leaf-segments, the veins 



