ADDITIONS. 
To RHAJtlNVS, p. 84, add 
3. R. lanceolatus, Pursh. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, taper- 
pointed (the floral obtuse, mostly ovate or roundish), closely serrulate, 
minutely downy underneath ; petals 4, deeply obcordate , about as long 
as the (short) stamens; seeds 2. (R. parvifolius, Tort, Gr.; not of 
Bunge.) — Hills and river-banks, from Mercersburg, Penn. (Prof. 
Traill Green!), southward through Virginia ! to Alabama (Buckley!) 
and southwestward. May. — A tall shrub, not thorny, with Plum¬ 
like leaves; the floral ones, at the base of the annual shoots (from the 
axils of which the short pedicels arise) -| ; long; the later 2 1 -3 / 
when grown, often oblong-ovate. Flowers yellowish-green, dicecio- 
polygamous: the pedicels usually single in the more fertile plant, 
which has the 2-cleft style exserted, and produces abundant globular 
drupes about the size of a pepper-corn. The less fertile plant bears 
rather larger flowers, on clustered pedicels, with a very short and in¬ 
cluded style: the ovaries that ripen produce a rather larger drupe, 
more turbinate, and distinctly pointed with the remains of the short 
style. Seed obovate, deeply grooved. — The two forms were detect¬ 
ed and well pointed out by Prof Green. I have gathered very fruit¬ 
ful specimens of the second form near Huntersville, Virginia. No 
doubt this is the R. lanceolatus of Pursh. The smoother Western 
plant, if a distinct species (which I think it is not), must bear the 
name ofR. Shortii, Nutt. 
To p. 98, before Desmodium, add 
9\ IIEDYSARLM) L., DC. Hedysarum. 
Calyx about equally 5-cleft ; the lobes linear-awl-shaped. 
Wings of the corolla much shorter than the obliquely truncate 
keel. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Pod of several equal-sid¬ 
ed orbicular flat joints which are connected by the middle. 
Leaves odd-pinnate, not stipellate : leaflets small. Otherwise 
much as in Desmodium. (An ancient Greek name.) 
1. II. bore&le, Nutt. Leaves nearly sessile; leaflets 8-12 
pairs, oblong, smoothish; stipules united; raceme elongated, long- 
peduncled, bearing numerous deflexed (violet-purple) flowers ; stand¬ 
ard much shorter than the keel; joints of the pod 3 or 4, snioot or 
pubescent, reticulated (stem l°-2° high). 1J- AVillougi v . oun 
tain, Vermont, Mr. Jllphonso IVood. July. A fine iscovery. 
have not seen a specimen. 
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