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SUPPLEMENT. 



America, whence the seeds were sent home by 

 the unfortunate Douglas in 1827 ; and those sown 

 in the London Horticultural Society's Garden 

 did not vegetate. Seeds were, however, distri- 

 buted; and of those sent to Messrs. Pope and 

 Co. of the Handsworth Nursery, near Birming- 

 ham, one germinated, and produced the plant 

 figured in the Floral Cabinet. This species has 

 not yet borne seeds in England; but it has been 

 abundantly increased by layers, which strike 

 readily." 

 Colletia. Page54 1 ., after the paragraph headed " Col- 



Ict'ia," insert : " C. horrida Willd. (/g.2432. c) 



appears somewhat different from C. spi- 



nosa (fig. 217. p. 541.); and both it and 



C. ulicina Gil. {fig. 2432. a) are evergreen 



shrubs, which are found as hardy as the 



common furze in the arboretum of Messrs. 



Loddiges." 

 Retanilla. 341., in the last line but one of the para- 

 graph headed " Retanilla," after t. 16., add : 



" and our figure b in Jig. 2432." 

 Pomadcrris. 542., to the paragraph headed " Pomaderris" add : " P. plumosa 



has stood out for several years in Devonshire. P. /jrunifolia also 



2432 



stands out ; and, though it is sometimes killed down to the ground, 

 it springs again from the root." 



Anacardia^ce^e. 



Vistdcia. 545., to the paragraph headed " Gen. Char." add : " The fungus 

 f/redo Terebinthi Bee. is found on the leaves of plants of this 

 genus." 



IXhus. 549., to the paragraph headed " Gen. Char." add : " The following 

 fungi are found on plants of this genus : — //ydnum Rhois Schwein., 

 SphaeVia Hhois Schwein. ; S. quaternata Pers., on K. glabra; S. sub- 

 solitaria Schwein., Cytispora rhoina Fr., Dothidea Rhois Fr.; Helmin- 

 thosporium rigidum Fr., on R. radicans. — M, J. B." 



557. head line, for " Duvauct," read " Rhus." 



R. suaveolens. 557., dele the entire paragraph. 



R. aromdtica. 557., add after the line headed " Engraving:" — 



" Synonijmes. fl. suaveolens Ait. Hort. Kcw., 1. p. 368., Dec. Prod., 2. p. 72. ; Myrlca trifoliata 

 Hort. ; Toxicodendron crenktum Mill. Diet., No. 5." 



557., before the last paragraph, three lines from the bottom, add : — 



" t R. caiistica Hook., Laurus caustica Mo/., is an evergreen tree, a native 

 of Chili, introduced in 1828, of which there are plants in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden. There are also plants under the same name in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden, raised from seeds sent by Dr. Wallich from the 

 Snowy Mountains of Nepal." 



