2554. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



K. ovata Sims Bot. Mag., t. 2 169., and our 

 Jig. 2444'. ; K. cordata Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg., t. oi-l-. ; has the leaves broad- 

 ovate, cordate, acute, racemes many- 

 flowered. The flowers are bluish 

 violet. 



K. monophylla, K. inophylla, K. Compton- 

 iana, K. j)rostrata, K. bracteata, and 

 K. seiicca are all handsome twining 

 shrubs,natives of New Holland, which 

 would probably stand out against a 

 conservative wall." 



Sect. V. Cassie'^ 



Page 660., after " Half-hardy Species uf Vassiccc," insert : — 



" Po/«rtana jmlchernma Dec. Mem. Leg., 118. 457., Bot. Mag., t. 995., has 

 an upright branchy stem, with pinnate leaves. It has stooil out in Knigiit's 

 Exotic Nursery two years, without protection, flowering freely every year ; 

 but it has not yet ripened seed." 



Other Half-hardy Leguminucece. 



Acacia Cavcmia, 665., add to the end of the paragraph : " There are 



large plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the Fulhain 



Nursery." 

 A. Julibrissin. 666., add to the end of the paragraph : " There is a tree of this 



species at Desio, near Milan, 66 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 



4 in., and of the head 24 ft. — G. Manetti." 



J?0SA^CE;E. 

 Sect. I. yiMYGDA^LETE. 



Kmygdalus nana. 674., add to the paragraph headed " A. n. .3 campvstris : " 

 " This variety is in the Horticultural Society's Cirarden, where it was 

 raised from seeds received from Dr. Fischer." To the paragraph 

 headed " A. n. 4 incdnay' add : " This kind is in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, and was received from Sir Oswald Moseley." Add 

 to the paragraph headed " A. n. Ssibirica:" "It is in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden." 



Vcrsica. 680., add to the first paragraph : " The fungi on plants of this 

 genus are: Polyporus cervinus Schweiii., Sphae^ria persicaria Schwein., on 

 peach stones ; S. putaminum Schivein., on peach stones, but also on 

 American walnuts and acorns ; S[)or6cybe Persicae Fr., investing tlie 

 branches, twigs, and trunks of dead peach trees in vast quantities. 

 — M. J. B." 



P. vulgaris 6 comprcssa. 680., turn the cut^g. .397. 



Anncnlaca. 681., to the first paragraph add: " The fnngi are: Oidium 

 fructigenum Kz., on the withered fruit still hanging on the branches : 

 this also grows on plums and other fruit. Collarium nigrospermum Lie, 

 Epochnium virescens Fr., on fruit. — M. J. B." 



684., before Genus IV., insert : — 



" A. peduuculdta }iort. There are plants in the Horticultural Society's 



Garden, raised from seeds received under this name from Dr. Ledebour." 



Vriaius. 684., before the paragraph headed " P. spi^insa," insert: — 



" The Fungi found on plants of this genus are : Peziza Basse var. Mont., 



Phacidium plicatumPr. ; Ceiiangium clavatum Fr., on P. serotina ; C. Pru- 



nastri Fr., on i^runus domestica; SphaeVia Prunastri Pers., S. fibrosa Pa's., S. 



microstoma Pcrs., S. morbosa Schwein., covering the small branches of American 



plums to the thickness of an inch, with a bullate, irregular, black crust, causing 



