478 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



calyx villous with viscid hairs, campanulate, the upper lobes acute or the middle 

 acuminate, the lower triangular-subulate : corolla whitish or purplish, 4 or 5 lines 

 long. Syn. Fl. ii. 349. 



On the Sacramento (Pickering) ; Arizona (Palmer) ; and eastward to New Mexico and Nebraska. 

 The eastern T. Canadcnse, Linn., is less branched and somewhat tomentose, the flowers rather 

 larger, and the canescent calyx with the upper teeth obtuse. 



* * Low and diffuse: leaves incisely cleft, with solitary axillary flowers : calyx 



5-parted. 



2. T. Cubense, Linn. Annual, glabrous or nearly so, about a foot high : 

 leaves cuneate-obovate or rhomboidal, short-petioled, crenately incised or 3 5-cleft 

 to the middle, the upper sessile and palmately 3-cleft or 3 - 5-toothed, exceeding the 

 flowers : calyx-lobes subulate-lanceolate, equal : corolla hardly exserted, pale blue or 

 white, 3 or 4 lines long : nutlets somewhat corky, obscurely lew-ribbed and punctu- 

 late. Jacq. Stirp. t. 183, and Obs. t. 30; Gray, 1. c. 



Southeastern California or Western Arizona (Palmer), and eastward to Texas ; also in Mexico 

 and the West Indies and southward to Buenos Ayres. The similar T. laciniatum, Torr., is 

 perennial, with larger exserted corolla 6 to 10 lines long. 



Page 608. 1. VERBENA. 



2. V. officinalis, Linn. Very common about San Diego, Cleveland, Palmer. 

 4. V. hastata, Linn. Humboldt County, Jtattan. 

 7. V. ciliata, Benth. Flowers sometimes white. 



Page 611. 1. PLANTAGO. 



1. P. major, Linn., var. Asiatica, Decaisne. Capsule globose-ovoid, circum- 

 scissile near the base and much within the calyx. Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 389. P. 

 Asiatica, Linn. 



On the coast near San Francisco and northward to British Columbia and the Arctic Sea. The 

 typical form of the species has the ovoid capsule dividing near the middle on a line with the top 

 of the calyx ; it may also occur as an introduced plant. 



2 a . P. eriopoda, Torr. Crown with a dense mass of brownish wool : leaves 

 oblariceolate to oval-obovate, 3 to 5 inches long, mostly glabrous : scape pubescent 

 or glabrate a foot high or less ; spike dense, cylindric : bracts round-ovate, scarious- 

 margined : sepals scarious with greenish midrib : capsule ovoid, slightly exceeding 

 the calyx : cells 1 - 2-seeded. Gray, 1. c. 



On Shasta River and Hamilton Pass (Greene) ; Mad River (Rattan) ; eastward to Colorado and 

 Wyoming and north to British America. 



4. P. Fatagonica, Jacq., var. nuda, Gray. Pubescence loose and scattered : 

 leaves rigid, green and soon glabrate : bracts short. Syn. Fl. ii. 391. 



A not rare form ; Santa Catalina Island (J. Schumacher) ; used in making " pinole," a kind of 

 soup. 



5. P. hirtella, HBK. (Substitute for P. Virginica, var.) Perennial : scape 

 hirsute : flowers 3 lines long, the corolla-lobes ovate, acute. Gray, 1. c. 392. 



Also in Mexico and Chili. P. Virginica is not found in California, though forms of it reach 

 Texas and Southern Arizona. 



