474 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



Var. angustissimus, Gray, 1. c. Leaves narrowly linear or sometimes the 

 uppermost narrowly lanceolate from a broad base. 



The first variety above Jackson Lake, Siskiyou Mountains (Greene) ; the extreme narrow-leaved 

 form from Yosemite Valley, etc. 



Page 565. 9. MIMULUS. 



11. M. glutinosus, var. brachypus, Gray. Butte County, Mrs. Austin. 

 18. M. bicolor, Benth. M. fiisenii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vii. 89. 



18 a . M. Palmeri, Gray. Viscid, but scarcely pubescent : leaves lanceolate or 

 the lower spatulate, mostly entire, about | inch long, shorter than the filiform pedi- 

 cels : corolla crimson, dilated furinelform, about 9 lines long, thrice the length of the 

 calyx, the lobes nearly equal and equally spreading : fruiting calyx narrowly oblong, 

 3 or 4 lines long, the teeth broad and obtuse. Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 82, and Syn. 

 Fl. ii. 278. 



21. M. moschatus, Dougl., var. longiflorus, Gray. Corolla elongated, thrice 

 longer than the calyx, about an inch long : later pedicels exceeding the leaves. 

 Syn. Fl. ii. 278. 



The usual form in California, also in Oregon. 



Page 570. 10". HERPESTIS, Gaertn. f. 



Calyx unequally 5-parted, the lower sepal broader than the upper and the lateral 

 ones usually much narrower and interior. Corolla with short cylindrical tube and 

 spreading lips, the upper emarginate or 2-lobed, the lower flat, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 included ; anther-cells parallel or divergent. Stigma of 2 flat lobes (in our species). 

 Capsule globose or ovate, many-seeded, the entire or 2-parted valves separating from 

 the axile placentae. Low usually glabrous herbs, with opposite leaves and axillary 

 mostly solitary pedicellate flowers. 



About 50 species are known, chiefly of warm countries, of which but half a dozen are found in 

 the United States, and hardly one enters California. 



1. H. rotundifolia, Pursh. Perennial, on the margins of ponds, etc., the stems 

 creeping, rather stout and succulent, usually somewhat villous : leaves obovate or 

 oblong-obovate, sessile, entire, to 1 inch long, several-nerved from the base : pedi- 

 cels 1 to 3, at length spreading or reflexed, 3 to 6 lines long : corolla white or yel- 

 lowish, 4 or 5 lines long, twice longer than the oblong-ovate sepals, the broad upper 

 lip emarginate and as long as the tube : capsule 4-valved. Gaertn. f. Carp. t. 214 

 (fruit) ; Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 280. Ranapalus Eisenii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 vii. 113. 



Between San Luis Obispo and Merced (Lemmon) ; near Fresno (Dr. G. Eiseri) ; New Mexico 

 ( Wright) ; Kansas, and eastward. 



Page 571. 14. SYNTHYRIS. 



1. S. reniformis, Benth. Scape exceeding the leaves, erect : pedicels mostly 

 shorter than the bluish flowers : capsule flattened, rounded, truncate or usually 

 emarginate ; ovules and usually seeds several or numerous in each cell. Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. ii. 285. 



Camp Biclwell, Modoc County (Dr. W. MaUfieics); northward through Oregon to Idaho and 

 Washington Territory. The specimens referred to it in the first volume belong to the following. 



2. S. rotundifolia, Gray, 1. c. Scapes weak, hardly exceeding the petioles : 

 raceme short, lax, the pedicels longer than the flowers : capsule divaricately 2-lobed, 

 the cells transversely oblong ; ovules and seeds two in each cell. 



