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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



ovate to lanceolate sessile or shortly petiolate leaves and the long divaricate pedicels 

 of the elongated raceme subtended by conspicuous herbaceous spatulate or linear- 

 oblong bracts : flowers usually large (4 lines long), the broad sepals much dilated in 

 fruit. Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 54. 



Scott Mountains, Siskiyou County (Rev. E. L. Greene) ; also apparently, but without the bulb- 

 iferous base, from Saucelito (G. R. Vasey), Noyo (Bolander), Mount Shasta (Hooker & Gray), and 

 Lassen's Peak, Mrs. R M. Austin. 



5 a . C. dichotoma, ISTutt. Low and slender, 1 to 3 inches high, branching from 

 the base and above : leaves linear, an inch long or less : flowers racemose, small ; 

 sepals a line long or less ; petals unequal : stamens 3 : seeds small, minutely tuber- 

 culate, dull. Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 202. 



Near Yreka, Siskiyou County (Greene), and northward to the Columbia. With the habit of 

 Montia, but petals distinct. The seeds of C. linearis are large and shining. 



6. C. diffusa, Nutt. Humboldt County, V. Rattan. 



8 C. triphylla, Watson. Eagle Creek Mountains, Union County, Oregon 

 (W. C. Cusic/c), and Simcoe Mountains, Washington Territory, J. Howell. 



10. C. Nevadensis, Watson. Plumas County, Mrs. Austin. Eootstock thick- 

 ened or slender. 



Page 77. 5. SPBAGUEA. 



1. S umbellata, Torr. Head of South Fork of King's River, Matthews. 



Page 78. 6. CALYPTRIDIUM. 



2. C. roseum, Watson. Near San Bernardino, Dr. C. C. Parry. 



Page 80. 1. ELATINE. 



1. E. Americana, Arn. Leaves obovate and very obtuse : flowers sessile, 

 closed or sometimes expanded and remaining so, purplish : stamens 2 or sometimes 3, 

 as many as the petals and sepals : seeds cylindrical, slightly curved, about a third of 

 a line long, very minutely pitted in 9 or 10 longitudinal lines (20 or 30 pits in each 

 line). Gray, Proc Amer. Acad. xiii. 361. 



The more common American species, found on the Columbia River (Hall, Howell), but not 

 collected in California. 



2. E. brachysperma, Gray, 1. c. Mostly terrestrial, sometimes submersed or 

 floating : leaves oblong or oval and attenuate at base or sublanceolate : flowers sessile, 

 mostly dimerous ; stamens 2 or 3 : seeds short-oblong, nearly straight, not over a 

 fourth of a line long, more coarsely pitted in 6 or 7 lines of 10 to 12 pits. 



California, Kellogg & Harford, n. 257 ; locality not noted. Also from Illinois and Texas. 



3. E. Californica, Gray, 1. c. Floating : leaves obovate, attenuate at base, the 

 lower with a petiole not longer than the blade : flowers shortly pedicellate, with 

 3 or 4 sepals and petals and twice as many stamens : seeds circinate-incurved, nearly 

 a third of a line long, minutely pitted in 10 or 12 lines (about 25 pits to each line). 



In Sierra Valley, J. G. Lemmon. The only American representative of the section Elatinella. 



2. BERGIA. 



1. B. Texana, Seub. On the Columbia Eiver, J. Howell. 



Page 81. 1. HYPERICUM. 



2. H. concinnum, Benth. In the Coast Eanges north of San Francisco ; Eus- 

 sian Eiver, V. Rattan, G. R. Vasey. 



