572 ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS. 



Page I-IT, add to the list of common garden Canjophyllacce, the snowy mouse-ear, 

 or Cerastium tomentosum, seen evei-ywhere upon rockeries, and distin- 

 guished at once by its white herbage. 



" 148. Under Portulacacese, add, " Claytoiiia perfoJiata springs up in gardens 

 not infrequently, as a weed." 



" 155, add— 



xsxn.* — The Ailvntus Family. XanthoxylecB. 

 A little family of trees and shrubs, chiefly American, interesting as con- 

 taining that noble tree the Ailantus, the pinnate leaves of which are often a 

 yard or more in length. Young specimens occur in gardens, as at Mr. 

 Ferris's, Victoria Park. The Ailantus bears some resemblance to the Stag's- 

 hom Sumach and the Ash, but is distinguished from the former by its 

 nearly entire leaflets, and glabrous twigs; and from the latter, by the large 

 glands underneath the scanty serratures, and the unpleasant odour of the 

 foliage when bruised. 



" 150. In the account of the Polygalacece, insert before Habitats and Localities, 

 " Common milkwort, Polygala vulgaris." 



" 159, add after the localities of the Sycamore, "A variety with variegated 

 foliage is common in shrubberies.'' 



" 103. Atriplex deltoidea, which, like the angustifolia, cannot be regarded as 

 anytliing more than a form of the. patula, " covers nearly every rubbish- 

 heap on the canal side at Broadheath." (Mr. Hunt.) Sept., 1859. 



" 103, add— 



xjocix.* — The Eivixa Family. Phytolaccdcea. 

 Under shrubs and herbaceous exotics, chiefly from within or near the 

 tropics, and nearly related to the Ghenopodece, from which they are dis- 

 tinguished by having the stamens alternate with the sepals, those of the 

 Chenopodece being opposite. Near Manchester they are represented in 

 greenhouses by those very pretty plants the Rivina and the Phytolacca 

 decandra, the racemes of whose bright red coral berries are singularly gay. 



" 107. The Pimeleas, among the Tbymelacesc, have only two stamens. 



" 100, line 17, for " Rosacea:" read " Drupacea." 



" 109, add— 



xivrn.* — The Calycanthtis Family. Calycanthacea. 

 A enrious family of but half a dozen species, standing between those of the 

 rose and apple, and interesting in its principal roi)roseiitalive, tlie Carolina 

 Allspice, or Calycanthus FloriduK, a shrub cultivated in gardens at Alderley 

 and elsewhere, and immediately known by its richly-aromatic, chocolate- 

 coloured flowers, fonned of uumei'ous sepals and jietals, between which there 

 is no absolute line of demarcation, and solitary in the axils of the simple 

 and opposite loaves. 



