ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



Page 59. — Argemone Mexicana. Collectetl at Merodosia, 111., with white 



flowers, by A. B. Sei/moii7: 

 Page 75. — Insert after Cleome integrifolia — 



C. spix6.SA, L. Vistid-puhescent, 3-4° high; a pair of short stipular 

 spines under the petiole of eacli leaf; leaflets 5-7, oblong-lanceolate; flowers 

 large, rose-purple to wliite; stamens 2-3' long; stipe of the linear pod about 

 2' long. (C. pungens, WilUl.) — An escape from cultivation, near Mt. C'ar- 

 mel, 111. (Sclineck), and in waste grounds southward; also on ballast. (Int. 

 from Trop. Amer.) 



Page 8G. — Arenaria GroBnlandica. Found on Mt. Desert Island, 



Maine (Rdiid). 

 Page 87. — Stellaria borealis. In the mountains of northern N. J. 



S. humifusa. This species has also been found on Cranberry Island, 

 near Mt. Desert, Maine, by J. II. Redjield. 

 Page 91. — Under Talinum teretifolium add the character — style 



equalling the stamentJ. — In.sert 



2. T. calycinum, Engelm. Leaves somewhat broader; flowers and 

 capsules larger ; stamens 30 or more ; style twice h)nger than the stamens, 

 declined. — Central Kan. to W. Tex. 



Under Claytonia insert — 



3. C. Chamissdnis, Fsch. Weak, procumbent or ascending, rooting 

 below and perennial by lateral and terminal filiform runners ; leaves several 

 pairs, oblong-spatulate, 1-2' long; inflorescence racemosely 1 - 9-flowered ; 

 petals pale rose-color; capsule small, 1-3-seeded. — In a cold ravine, Winona 

 Co., Minn. ; in the mountains from Colorado north and westward. 



Page 211. — Hydrocotyle Americana. Add — propagating by fili- 

 form tuberiferous stolons. 

 Page 230. — Insert after the genus Dipsacus — 



2. SCABIOSA, Tourn. Sc'ARiois. 



Characters of Dipsacus, but the green leaves of the involucre and involncels 

 not rigid nor spinescent. (Name from scabies, the itch, from its use as a 

 remedy. ) 



S. aistrXlis, Wulf. Perennial, s])arsely branched, nearly glabrous, lA- 

 3° high; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, tlie lower oblanceolate, slightly 

 toothed or entire; heads short -oblong ; calyx obtu.'^ely sliort-lobed ; corolla 

 pale blue. — Central N. Y. and Peun.; rare. (Adv. from Eu.) 



