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SUPPLEMENT. 



have their fruit black, instead of red. In the latter, in the list of En- 

 gravings, for " our fig. 731.," read " onv fig. 7.S2." 

 'R.rigens. Page 982., dele entirely; it being the same as i?.fl6ridumgrandifl6rum. 

 R. piuictatum. The fruit, Mr. Gordon informs us, is black, not red. A spe- 

 cimen (^fig. 2475.) has been sent us, from Mr. Pope of the Handsworth 

 Nursery, near Birmingham, of a Ribes which strongly resembles R. 

 punctutum. It is an evergreen, with small yellow flowers, and very 

 sweet-scented." 

 U.fioridum. 98G.,to the "Varieties," after "R. («.)/. 2granf///7dnmHort.,"add: 

 " a. rigens Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., i. p. 110., Pursh FL Amer. Sept. 

 i. p. 136." R. inebrians and R. cereumha.ye their fruit amber-coloured, 

 not black. 

 R. viscosissinmm. 987., to the list of Engravings, add : " and our^g. 738." 

 R. (a.)fidviim. 990., to the list of Engravings, add : " and our^g. 2476." 

 991., in Mr. Gordon's list, to " R. mu/fifiorum," add: " syn. mtifolium." 

 'R. pmictdtiim. syn., for " prostratum," read "glandulosum." 

 To " R. trifiorum," add : " var. R. t. vu/Jus." 



2477 



Escallon/^Vj?^. 

 Esca/ldnia. 694., add, after " E. pulveridenta : " — 



" E. glandulosa Hort. There are plants of this spe- 

 cies in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which have 

 flowered there." 



" E. illinita Presl, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1900., and 

 our fig. 2477., has the leaves oblong, lanceolate, serru- 

 late, clammy or varnished (whence the name) ; and co- 

 rymbs 3-flowered, racemose. {Lindl.) This is an evergreen 

 bushy shrub, covered all over with a clammy varnish ; 

 emitting an odour, according to Dr. Lindley, like melilot 

 or fenugreek; but, according to others, like that of swine. 

 The flowers are in terminal racemes, and are of a greenish 

 white. The plant is a native of the mountains of Chili ; 

 but it appears the hardiest of all the species of Escall6n/« 

 in British gardens." 



iS'.VXIFRA^GE^. 



Hydrangea. 994., add to tiie paragraph headed " Gen. Char., Sfc." " Sphre^ria 

 sphaerocephala Schwcin. is found on the leaves." 



Umbella^ceje. 



Bupleiirum fruticosum. 997., to the " Engravings,^' add, " and 

 our fig. 2478." 



^edera'ce.e. 



Hedera llclix. Varieties. 1000., before " T//e Varieties in British 

 Gardens," add : " A variety with whiteberries is mentioned 

 by Theophrastus, Pliny, Virgil, and Dioscorides. Pliny 

 also speaks of a kind which he calls * pallentes hederte,' 

 which Melmoth supposes to be the silver-striped." 



1006. 1. 17. from the bottom, before "Plants," insert: " The 

 following fungi are found on the ivy: — SphajVia sino- 

 pica Fr., S. microscopica Fr., S. Mougeot/i Fr. ; S. tri- 

 chella Fr., on the leaves, and also on those of the 

 willow; S. H^derx Sow., S. Aederac'cola 7'V., andDo- 

 thidea T/ederae Fr., on the leaves; Phoma 7/ederae 

 Desm.—M. J. B" 



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2478 



ilamamclii virginica. 1007. 



//amamelidaVe^e. 



1. 4. from the bottom, after full stop, insert: 



