ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. II. 479 



Page 44. Insert the following new genus of Crwifcrce : 



20 a . STANFORDIA. 



Pod linear, somewhat laterally compressed; valves thin-membranous, concave, 

 carinately 1-nerved. Seeds in 2 rows, small, wingless : cotyledons incumbent, 

 3-parted. Sepals concave and carinate, more or less colored, unequal, the lateral 

 somewhat broadly gibbous-saccate. Petals included, without claws, ovate at base, 

 narrower toward the rounded summit, strongly undulate. Anthers straight, linear- 

 oblong. Style short, with broad divergently 2-lobed stigma. Annual, erect and 

 branching, nearly glabrous, with toothed leaves. 



1. S. Californica. About a foot high, sparingly pubescent at base with short 

 simple spreading hairs : lower leaves oblanceolate with dilated petiole, obtuse, cre- 

 nately toothed, 2 inches long, the upper lanceolate, sessile and clasping, acutely ser- 

 rate : flowers in a loose raceme, on hairy pedicels 2 or 3 lines long, deep purple 

 becoming pale : calyx 3 or 4 lines long : petals obpanduriform, somewhat cordate at 

 base, equalling the sepals : stamens included : pods an inch long or less : seeds 

 roundish, about half a line long; middle lobe of the cotyledons the larger. 



Found near Tulare, Mrs. A. E. Bush. A very remarkable genus, allied to Tropidocarpum, to 

 the Chilian Schizopetalon, and in some respects to Greggia, but peculiar in its calyx, corolla, and 

 in the division of its cotyledons. It is named in honor of Leland Stanford, Esq., a prominent 

 California!!, and patron of the " Botany of California." 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



TO VOL. II. 



Page 2. 1. MIRABILIS. 



1 . M. multiflora, Gray. Eoot very large : flowers open from four o'clock in 

 the afternoon till nine in the morning. 



3. M. Californica, Gray. This species is referred by Bentham & Hooker (Gen. 

 PI. iii. 4) to Oxt/baphus, distinguishing that genus by a short campanulate or funnel- 

 form perianth, and the involucre enlarged and veined in fruit. 



PageS. 2. RUMEX. 



2. R. hymenosepalus, Torr. Stem scarlet, 2 or 3 feet high, from a fascicled 

 cluster of large tuberous roots. R. Saxei, Kellogg, Pacif. Eural Press, June, 1879. 



Banks of the Santa Anna Eiver, near Anaheim (A. W. Saxe) ; near Los Angeles, in both dry 

 and damp localities, Mrs. A. E. Bush. The stems and leaves have a pleasant acidity and are used 

 in California, as in Utah, under the name of Wild Pie-plant. The roots are said to be gathered 

 in Texas for tanning purposes, and the plant is known there as " Canaigre." 



Page 10. 3. POLYGONUM. 



In character of section Avicularia read : styles 3, deciduous. 



12 s . P. Bidwelliae, Watson. Smaller, with short dense spikes, the large con- 

 spicuous 2-lobed scarious and chaff-like stipules (2 lines long) equalling or exceed- 

 ing the bracts, entire or slightly lacerate-toothed at the summit : flowers somewhat 



