460 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



rather rigid branches, alternate pinnatifid or coarsely toothed leaves, and sessile axil- 

 lary and terminal heads of blue flowers. 



Two or three species are known, natives of the Old World. C. Endivia, Linn., Endive or 

 Garden Succory, is often cultivated as a salad. 



I. C. Intybus, Linn. Perennial, with a deep thickened root, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 pubescent below or glabrous : leaves runcinate, the upper small, narrow, subentire : 

 head in flower an inch broad or more. 



Santa Barbara (Miss S. A. Plummer) ; native of Europe, widely naturalized in temperate and 

 tropical regions. The root is extensively used as a substitute for coffee, or for its adulteration. 



Page 435. 116. MALACOTHRIX. 



II. M. platyphylla, Gray. Beaver Dam, Northern Arizona, Palmer. Akenes 

 2 lines long, ash-colored, corky, striate-cylindric, truncate and pitted at the summit. 



Page 442. 124. SONCHUS. 



1. S. oleraceus, Linn. Santa Barbara (Mrs. Cooper) ; San Diego, Cleveland. 

 Page 445. 2. NEMACLADUS. 



l a . N. longiflorus, Gray. Slender branching annual, 3 to 6 inches high, with 

 habit of N. ramosissimus ; leaves hoary-pubescent: calyx 5-parted, free from and 

 much shorter than the narrow oblong compressed capsule, its lobes equal : corolla 

 tubular, strictly gamopetalous, 3 lines long, 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx : fila- 

 ments more united : capsule 2 lines long, 2-valved to the base : seeds short-oval. 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 60. 



San Diego and San Bernardino Counties, Wallace, Parry & Lemmon, Cleveland. This second 

 species requires a modification of the generic character, especially as respects the adnation of the 

 calyx to the ovary and the characters of the capsule. 



Pape446. 1. GITHOPSIS. 



1. Gr. specularioides, Nutt. Plumas County, Mrs. Ames, Mrs. Austin. 

 Page 451. 1. VACCINIUM. 



3*. V. CEespitOSum, Michx. Dwarf and cespitose, 3 to 6 inches high, branches 

 not angled : leaves obovate to cuneate-oblong, obtuse or rarely acutish, closely serru- 

 late, bright green both sides, reticulately veined, 3 to 9 lines long : corolla ovate or 

 ovate-oblong: berry glaucous-blue, sweet. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 33, t. 126, and 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3429. 



Var. arbuscula, Gray. About a foot high, with rather broader and thicker 

 leaves. Syn. Fl. ii. 24. 



Plumas County (Mrs. Austin) ; Mount Shasta (Hooker & Gray) ; Simcoe Mountains, Oregon 

 (Howcll) ; the variety only. The species ranges in several forms from Alaska and Hudson's Bay 

 to California, Utah and Colorado, and the northern border States. 



Page 452. 3. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



The Californian species of this genus are thus rearranged by Dr. Gray in the 

 Synoptical Flora of North America. 



1. Drupe smooth, mealy : nutlets separate or separable, or irregularly coales- 



cent. UVA-UBSI. 



* Depressed trailing or creeping, green, glabrous or puberulent : flowers 2 lines 

 long, In small simple clusters : ovary and reddish fruit glabrous. 



1. A. Uva-ursi, Spreng. Not yet detected in California. 



