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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



Page 5. Juniperus communis, L. var. According to Rehder, Cycl. of Am. 

 Hort. 848, the common spreading juniper of New England pastures is 

 var. Canadensifi, Load., while the var. vana, Loud. (J. nana, Willd.) is 

 a plant of arctic and mountain regions, low and prostrate with shorter 

 and broader leaves, \-h in. long. 



Page 8. For Alisma Plantago-aquatica, L. read— Alisma Plantago, L. (Linn- 

 aeus in Sp. PI. 342, uses the latter name.) 



Page 9. After Agropyron Novae-Angliae, add the following description, by 

 Professor F. Lamson-Scribner : 



Agropyron Novae-Angliac, Scribn. sp nov. ( Trltifum violaceum, A. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 5. 6iiS. 1867, at least in part, not Hornem. Fl. Dan. t. 

 2044; Agropyron violaceum, var., S. Wats, in A. Gray, IMan. ed. 6. 672. 

 1890, not A. violaceum, Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenland. 154. 1880; A. 

 violaceum virescens, Lange, 1. c. ?) — An erect cjespitose perennial 6-10 

 dm. high, with rather long broad leaves and erect spikes 12-16 cm. 

 long ; culms smooth ; sheaths striate, shorter than the internodes ; 

 ligule short ; leafblades linear 20-25 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, long 

 acuminate, narrowed at the base, striate, scabrous on the margins and 

 nerves, sometimes glabrous, rarely with very few scattered hairs above, 

 leaves of the innovations much smaller, narrow. Axis flattened, gla- 

 brous except on the ciliate-scabrous angles. Spikelets appressed, 14-16 

 mm. long, 3 to 5 flowered ; rachilla rather densely hispid ; empty 

 glumes lanceolate, sub-equal, prominently 5 nerved, 12 mm. long, 

 scabrous on the nerves and at the apex, bearing a short scabrous awn 

 usually 2 mm. long; flowering glumes lanceolate, glabrous, 8-9 mm. 

 long, rather faintly 3 to 5 nerved, short awn-pointed. Palea nearly 

 equaling the glume, 2 nerved, scabrous on the margin, truncate or 

 2-toothed at the scabrous apex. 



General distribution : Sandy shores, thickets, etc., Labrador and 

 Newfoundland south to New York and Pennsylvania, west to Wiscon- 

 sin and South Dakota, June to September. 



Specimens examined: Labrador: Hamilton River, 6071, .4. P. 

 How, Aug. 17, 1894, ex. Herb. Geol, Surv. Canada. Newfoundland : 

 ^ Middle Arm, 26, A. C. Waghorne, 1897 ; no locality, Waghornc, 1897. 

 Quebec: sandy shore near Cacouna, C. G. Pringle, July 25, 1881. 

 Ontario : Lake Nipigon, ./. Macoiin, July 17, 1884. Maine : dry bank. 

 Dead River, 576, M. L. Fernald, August 19, 1896. New Hampshire : 

 White Mountains, C. E. Faxon, August 28, 1882 ; Oakes Gulf, Mt. 



