482 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. II. 



small stipule-like pair at base ; flowers unequally pedicelled, with a minute scarious 

 bractlet at base. A single species. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 296. 



1. H. Ian at a, Watson, 1. c. Decumbent or prostrate, covered with loose woolly 

 tomentum, less dense on the lower leaves : leaves oblanceolate, attenuate at base, 

 the lower 1 to 3 inches long, the upper much shorter and narrowly ovate, aculeate- 

 tipped, the stipule-like pair linear-subulate, 1 to 3 lines long : perianth woolly, a 

 line long, the linear-lanceolate lobes green with a scarious margin, the inner slightly 

 shorter and broader. 



Near San Luis Obispo, J. G. Lemmon. 



Page 46. 3. TELOXYS. 



This genus is referred by Bentham & Hooker (Gen. PI. iii. 51) to section Eotryois of Cheno- 

 podium. The species differ from others of that section only in the less pubescence and less 

 divided leaves. Indeed T. Mandoni, Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. ix. 91), is only Chenopodium 

 fcetidum, Schrad. 



Page 47. 4. CHENOPODIUM. 



6 a . C. cornutum, Benth. & Hook. 1. c. Teloxys cornuta, Torr. 



Page 51. 7. ATRIPLEX. 



1. A. patula, Linn., var. hastata, Gray. Santa Barbara, Mrs. E. Cooper. 



7. A. bracteosa, Watson. Near Los Angeles, Nevin. 



8. A. Coulteri, Dietr. A decumbent perennial, with slender stems and leafy 

 branches, the thin lanceolate sharply acuminate leaves 3 to 6 lines long, the fruiting 

 bracts a line broad or more, with herbaceous laciniately toothed margin. 



San Diego, near the shore, D. Cleveland. Mentioned under A. microcarpa and almost certainly 

 to be referred to this species, which should accordingly be removed to the perennial group, follow- 

 ing A. polycarpa. 



15. A. Californica, Moq. Leaves often fleshy. Mohave Desert, Mrs. Bush. 

 19. A. confertifolia, Watson. Mohave Desert, Mrs. A. E. Biish. 



Page 58. 12. SPIROSTACHYS. 



1. S. OCCidentalis, Watson. Tulare Plains, Lemmon. 



Page 66. The Order Buxaceae is reduced by Bentham & Hooker (Gen. PI. iii. 239) to the 

 rank of a Tribe in the order Eupkorbiacece. 



Page 70. 3. ARGYTHAMNIA. 



2. A. sericophylla, Gray. A matted bush, a foot high. Desert near Aqua 

 Caliente, San Bernardino County, S. B. Parish. Flowering in January. 



Page 73. 7. EUPHORBIA. 



1*. E. platysperma, Engelm. Ms. " A prostrate glabrous annual, stems \ to 1 

 foot long : leaves oblong-obovate, entire, short-cuspidate, thin and transparently 

 reticulate, \ inch long ; stipules subulate, mostly entire : involucres large, hemi- 

 spherical, solitary, with 1 to 4 naked or somewhat margin-appendaged glands : ovary 

 oblong ; the bifid styles very short : capsule large, oblong, If lines long, the carpels 

 rounded on the back : seeds large (1J lines long), flat, slightly convex on the back 

 and carinate on the ventral side, reddish gray. 



