PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 

 Page 9G7., add before Cliap. LIV. 



"CHAP. LIII.* 



2569 



OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 

 RKAVMVRIA^ CEJE. 



Reaumiiria hypericoides Willd. 

 Spec, 2. p. 1250., Bot. Reg., t. 

 845., and our /%.«. 2472 and 2473. ; 

 i/ypericum alternifolium Labill ; 

 has fleshy leaves, somewhat lan- 

 ceolate, flat, rather remote. A 

 shrub from 1 ft, to 2 ft. high, a na- p^_^; 

 tive of Syria, in arid places ; intro- W "* 

 duced in 1800, and producing its 

 rose-coloured flowers from June 

 to October, 2473 



R. vcrmiculuta Linn. Spec, 754., has the leaves subulate, semiterete, imbri- 

 cated, and crowded on the branches. It is an elegant little shrub, a native 

 of Sicily, Barbary, and Egypt, on the sea shore. Flowers white or pale 

 red. Introduced in 1828. The leaves of both species are dotted, and exude 

 globules of a saline alkali." 



CACTA^CEiE. 



Opnntia vulgaris. 967., after the 

 references add : " and our 

 ./?o. 2474." Add to the end 

 of the paragraph : " The 

 fungi found on it are : 

 SphjeVia Tunts Spreng., 

 and S. Cacti Schtvein. — 



M. J. sr 



2i7l 



GrossulaVe.«. 



Ribes. 968., end of paragraph headed " Desn-iption," introduce : — 



" Fungi. These are : Polyporus Ri/m Schum., Cenangium Ribis Fr, ; C. 

 repandum Fr., on R. petrae^um ; SphajVia strumella Fr., S. vestita Fr., S. 

 Ribis Tode, S. uberiformis Fr., S. Grossulariae i^r., and S.riikolaFr., on leaves; 

 Cytispora Ribis Ehr., Dothidea ribesia Fr., Didyniosporum truncatum Corda, 

 Uredo Ribcsii Lk. sub Coem., iEcldium Grossulariae Dec, Puccinia Ribis Dec, 

 —M. J. B." 



R. lachtre. 976., dele the last sentence, beginning " Sir W. J. Hooker," &c. 

 R. multifldrum Kit. 980., to the list of Synonymes, add : " R. wtifolium Hort." 

 981., R. jirostratum, its variety, and R. rexinasum, Mr. Gordon informs us, 



