ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 437 



Page 83. 1. LAVATERA. 



1. L. assurgentiflora, Kell. Involucre 3-cleft to below the middle : calyx 

 deeply 5 - 7-toothed, becoming 6 or 8 lines long in fruit. 



2. L. insularis, Watson. A stout perennial, finely stellate-pubescent : leaves 

 circular in outline, 7-lobed to the middle, the lobes rounded and obtuse, coarsely 

 crenate-toothed : flowers solitary in the axils, on deflexed pedicels about an inch 

 long : involucre of 3 nearly distinct oblong-spatulate acutish bracts : calyx 5-cleft to 

 the middle with broadly ovate acute lobes, much dilated in fruit : petals spatulate, 

 emarginate, purplish-yellow, 1 J inches long, naked at base : styles not exserted : 

 fruit slightly pubescent, ^ inch broad, about 10-carpelled. Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 xii. 249. 



Coronados Islands, near San Diego, D. Cleveland. A fourth species (L. vcnosa, Watson, 1. c.) 

 lias been collected on San Benito Island, Lower California ; leaves with triangular acutish lobes ; 

 flowers smaller, clustered, deep purple, with nearly distinct oblong-ovate involucrate bracts equal- 

 ling the calyx, exserted styles, and glabrous fruit, the carpels strongly veined on the sides. 



3. SIDALCEA. 



1. S. malvseflora, Gray. Rarely more or less stellate-pubescent : carpels apicu- 

 late, sometimes slightly pubescent. 



Page 85. 4. MALVASTRUM. 



3. M. splendidum, Kell. Los Angeles (Mrs. A. E. Bush} ; Bartlett's Canon, 

 near Santa .Barbara, Rothrock. 



5 tt . M. Palmeri, Watson. Stout, very densely stellate-pubescent, the branches 

 somewhat flexuous : leaves broadly ovate, truncate or subcordate at base, 2 or 3 

 inches long, somewhat 3 5-lobed, the lobes obtusish, crenate-toothed ; stipules 

 lanceolate, conspicuous : flowers nearly sessile in terminal clusters ; bractlets linear- 

 lanceolate, nearly equalling the acuminate calyx-lobes : petals yellowish rose-color, 

 an inch long : carpels rounded, somewhat pubescent. Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 250. 



At Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, a mile from the beach, Palmer, n. 90, 1876. 



Page 87. 8. HIBISCUS. 



1. H. Californicus, Kell. Flowers white changing to light rose-color. Differ- 

 ing from the eastern H. Moscheutos chiefly in its less acuminate leaves, cordate at 

 base, and less white beneath. 



Page 88. 1. FREMONTIA. 



1. F. Californica, Torr. Known locally as "Slippery Elm," the inner bark 

 being used as a substitute for that of Ulmus fulva. Rothrock, Bot. Wheeler's 

 Expl. 357. 



2. AYENIA, Linn. 



Flowers very small, naked. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, with narrow incurved 

 claws, the cucullate-concave blade adnate to the urceolate stamineal tube. Anthers 5, 

 3-celled, alternate with 5 staminodial lobes and opposite to the petals. Ovary 

 5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled : stigma capitate. Capsule muricate, separating into 5 

 1 -seeded 2-valved carpels. Seeds transversely rugose, without albumen. Herbs or 

 shrubs, with simple serrate leaves, small stipules, and flowers in small axillary shortly 

 pedunculate cymes. 



A genus of warmer and tropical America, of 8 species. 



