698 
additions. 
To SAXIFRA6A) p. 148, add 
* * * Sterile branches very leafy: leaves opposite , persistent: calyx free. 
t. oppositifolia, L. Low and diffuse, tufted; leaves 
small, crowded or imbricated, obovate, thickened towards the apex 
and furnished with a few impressed dots, ciliate, keeled; flower-stems 
peduncle-like, bearing a single showy (purplish) flower; sepals unit¬ 
ed to the middle, shorter than the large obovate 5-nerved petals.— 
Willoughby Mountain, Vermont (with S. aizoides also), Mr. A. Wood. 
July. A dwarf, alpine plant, which it is surprising has not been 
found on the White Mountains. 
To ASTER, on p. 203, add 
27 a . A* oblongifolius, Nutt. Stem much branched above, 
rigid, paniculate-corymbose (l°-2° high); the branchlets with the 
uppermost leaves and involucre minutely roughish-glandular with res¬ 
inous granules; leaves narrowly oblong or lanceolate, mucronate- 
pointed, entire, partly clasping, roughish, thickish (l'-2' long by 2" 
- o" wide) ; scales of the involucre broadly linear, imbricated, ap- 
pressed at the base, with long and spreading foliaceous tips; rays 
violet-purple ; achenia canescent. — Banks of the Juniata River, 
Huntingdon county, Penn, Dr. Porter! thence southward (Harper’s 
erry) and westward, on rocky banks. — Heads fewer and much 
smaller than in A. Novm-Angli®. 
To MIUIUEES, p. 299, add 
3. M, Jarnesii, Torr. & Gr. Spreading or creeping, smooth; 
ves rounded or kidney-shaped, obscurely toothed or entire, almost 
si e, many-nerved, the lower somewhat ovate and petioled; pe* 
inc es a^out the length of the leaf; corolla small, yellowish. (M. 
yen, orr.) Springs, Mackinaw and westward. July. 0. 
To GERARDIA, p. 306, add 
^ ery slender; branchlets and leaves 
se aceous, roug ish ; peduncles very much longer than the leaves; 
a yx-teeth awl-shaped; pod at length exserted ; corolla small (i'-*' 
tong): otherwise resembles G. tenuifolia. -Penn., Michigan, and 
southward. August. 
Eigiisticum actaeifolium, p. 160. The New England 
plant so called in Bigelow’s Florula is Archangelica peregrina! 
(p. 159): common on the New England coast 
Sohdago Virgaurea , Campanula linifolia , and Eutoca Franklinii 
have been gathered on Isle Royal, Lake Superior, during the past 
summer, by Mr. Joy , an assistant of Dr. C. T. Jackson in the Govern¬ 
ment Survey. 
