ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



Pa^e 59. — Argbmone Mexicana. Collected at Merodosia, 111., with white 

 flowers, by A. B. Seipnour. 



Page 75. — Insert after Cleome integrifolia — 



C. spin6sa, L. Viscid-pubescent, 3-4° high; a pair of short stipular 

 spines under the petiole of each leaf; leaflets 5-7, oblong-lanceulate ; flowers 

 large, rose-purple to white ; stamens 2-3' long; stipe of the linear pod about 

 2' long. (C. pungens, W'llld.) — An escape from cultivation, near Mt. Car- 

 mel, 111. (Schneck), and in waste grounds southward; also on ballast. (Int. 

 from Trop. Amer.) 



Page 86. — Arenaria Groenlandica. 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 ou Cranberry Island, 

 near Mt. Desert, Maine, by J. H. Redjield. 



Page 91. — Under Talinum teretifolium add the character — style 

 equalling the stamens. — Insert 



2. T. calycinum, 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. Chamissonis, 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 fili 

 form 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. acstrXlis, Wulf. Perennial, sparsely branched, nearly glabrous, 1^- 

 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.) 



