2570 



SUPPLEMENT. 



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

 gravings, fov" our Jig. 731.," read "our Jig. 732." 

 'R.rigens. Page 982., dele entirely; itbeingthe same as 7?.fl6ridumgrandifl6rum. 

 R. 2^'tiictdtum. The fruit, Mr. Gordon informs us, is black, not red. A spe- 

 cimen {Jig. 2475.) has been sent us, from Mr. Pope of the Handsworth 

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

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

 sweet-scented." 

 'R.Jloridum. 986., to the "Varieties" after " R. (».)/. 2 grandiJIunimYiort.," add : 

 "i?. rigens Michx. FI. Bar. Amcr., i. p. 110., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 

 i. p. 136." R. inebriaiis and R. ccreiim have their fruit amber-coloured, 

 not black. 

 R. viscosissimum. 987., to the list of Engravings, add : " and our Jig. 738." 

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

 991., in Mr. Gordon's list, to " R. mullijlorum" add: " syn. ritifolium," 

 "R. punctatum. syn., for " prostratum," read "glandulosum." 

 To " R. trijldrum," add : " var. R, t. mdjus." 



K 2477 



EsCALLO.\/J^C£^. 



Escallonia. 694., add, after " E. pulvcndenta : " — 



" E. glandulbsa Hort. There are plants of this spe- ' 

 cies in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which have '^'i 

 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 Escallonia 

 in British gardens." 



iSaxifra^ge^e. 



Hydrangea. 994., add to the paragraph headed " Gen. Char., <^c." " SphajVia 

 sphaerocephala Sckwein. is found on the leaves." 



UmBKLLa' CEiE. 



and 



Bupleiirum fruticosnm. 997., to the " Erigravings," add, 

 our fig. 2478." 



//ederaVeje, 

 Hcdcra Helix. Varieties. 1 000., before " Tl/e Varieties in British 

 Gardens," add : " A variety with white berries is mentioned 

 by Theophrastus, Pliny, Virgil, and Dioscorides. Pliny 

 also speaks of a kind which he calls ' pallentes hederae,' 

 which Melmoth supposes to be the silver-striped." 

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

 following fungi are found on the ivy: — SphaeVia 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. i/ederas Soiv., S. /^ederae'cola Fr., and Do- 

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

 Desm. — M. J. B " 



1006. 



Hamamelis virginica. 1007. 



//aMAMEHDA^CEjE. 



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



