ADDITIONS. 



Pa^e. 4. Blitum * mantimum. Calix membranaceous; clusters 

 axillary, spiked, naked; leaves lanceolate, at either evtre- 

 mity attenuated, incisely toothed. Hab. In the salt- 

 marshes of Long Island, near New York. Obs. Annual; 

 stem erect, 2 or 3 feet high and much ' --bed; leaves 

 thick and succulent, somewhat dilated n^ -^'^nce- 



ment of the petiole; clusters proximat 

 mose; calix 3-parted, not succulent or ' 

 seed lenticular, vertical, brown and r 

 nated by a single minute style. 



p. 9. LiNDERNiA. add 3. * monticola. Stem bx. 



chotomousj radical leaves spathulate, cauline lineai, _ 

 and remote; peduncles very long, at length deflected; root 

 perennial. Hab. Near Salem, North Carolina. — Mr. Le 

 Conte. V. s. In Herb. Collins and Muhlenberg. 



p. 16. Hkdeoma. add 4. * bracteolata. Pubescent; stem sim- 

 ple, slender; leaves linear sublanceolate, acute at each ex- 

 tremity, entire; pedlcells setaceously bracteolate, 3 to 5- 

 fiowered; calix oblong, equal; corolla minute? Hab. In 

 Carolina.— In common with // glabra, allied to Acynos. 



After No. 28. add—* CRYPTA. Catijc 2-leaved, in= 

 fcrior. Corolla of 2 or 3 petals, closed. Styles none; 

 stigmas 2 or 5, very minute. Capsule 2 or 3 -celled, 

 2 or 3-valved; cells 4 or o-seeded. Seeds subcy- 

 iindric, striated. 



C. minima. Journal Acad. Philad. 1. p. 117. t. 6. f. 1- 

 Pepiis americana. Ph. 1. p. 238, and Herb. Muhl. 

 :>. o7. F-RioPHORtTM, * tenellum. Culm slender and triangular, 

 teafy; spikes pedunculate, nutant, scarcely longer than the 

 involucrum; seed linear. I!ae. In the sphagnous swamps 

 of New Jersey; rare. Probably E. poly !^taoJiij inn. Ph. but a 

 much smaller and very distinct species. — Culm 12 to 18 

 inches; leaves carlnated, very narrow, pungently acute, 

 and scabrous on the margin; spikes 4 or 5; wool white, 

 long and silky. 

 •>. 62. Up ALEPSis aristuhita. Since the printing of this genus, 

 i haver met with this species in considerable abundance, 

 growing in the sands of New Jersey, in various places near 

 the sea coast, and also in the sandy barren lands, about 30 

 TTiiles east of Philadelphia. It is'tlie plant described for 

 Aira purpurea in Muhlenberg's Grasses, p. 86. but per- 

 ^ec'lv disli'uct from t.hat of Walter and Elliott. O&s 



