BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. XCV 



P. 231. 



5. Senecio pala'ustl'is, Hook. Root biennial ; stem stout, ^°-3° high, 

 woolly when young, glabrous with age ; leaves laciniate or irregularly cut- 

 toothed, the upper with a cordate-clasping base ; heads many in a corymb, with 

 20 or more short rays, the pappus becoming very long. — N. W. Wisconsin ( T. 

 J. Hide) and northward. (Eu ) 



6. S. lobs&fias, Pers. (Butter-weed.) Annual, glabrous, or loosely 

 woolly at first ; leaves rather fleshy, lyrate or pinnately divided ; the divisions 

 erenate or cut-lobed, variable; heads many in a corymb, small ; rays about 12. 



— Low banks of the Ohio and Mississippi, Illinois and southward. 



P. 237. 



ILygodesmia jimcea, Don. Flowers nearly as in Nabalus (only 5 in 

 the head), purple or rose-colored, the heads erect and solitary ; pappus copious, 

 soft and whitish; stems branched, rush-like, 1° high, striate, with few lanceolate 

 or subulate rigid leaves. — St. Croix River, Wisconsin, T. J. Hale, and common 

 northward. 



P. 250. 



Calluna vulgaris, Salisb., the Heather of Europe, was recently dis- 

 covered by Mr. Jackson Dawson well established in Tewksbury, Massachu- 

 setts, in low grounds, whether iudigenous or in some way introduced is still in 

 question. 



P. 268. 



2\ PlasitagO sparsiflora, Michx. Belongs to §1> except that the 

 seeds are only one in each cell and somewhat boat-shaped ; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, acute, entire or denticulate, 3-5-nerved, tapering into a margined pe- 

 tiole, hairy or smooth; scape long and slender (6'- 18' high) ; spike filiform, 

 sparsely flowered ; bracts ovate ; lobes of the corolla acute ; pod oblong, 2-seeded, 



— Mound City, S. Illinois (Dr. Vasey), and southward. 



P. 273. 



6 a . Lysimachia nummclaria, L., described in Garden Botany, p. lxiii., — a 

 creeping species, with round leaves and solitary flowers from their axils, — has 

 escaped from the gardens and run wild in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



P. 293. 



8*. CiSerarclia grandiflora, Benth. Intermediate in appearance and 

 in the size of the corolla between no. 6 and no. 9, minutely downy ; stem 3° - 4° 

 high, much branched ; leaves mostly pinnatifid and cut. (Dasystoma Drum- 

 mondi, Benth.) — Oak-openings, &c., Wisconsin, Lapham, Illinois, Vasey, and 

 southward". 



P. 318. 



3. Lamium Album, L, a perennial species, with rather large white flowers, 

 and petioled coarsely erenate leaves, is found in waste grounds around Boston 

 by D. Murray. (Adv. from Eu.) 



