4gg ADDlTlUisS AND CORRECTIONS TO \0L. 1. 



ovate to lanceolate sessile or shortly petiolate leaves and the long divaricate pedicels 

 of the elongated raceme subtemled by conspicuous herbaceous spatulate or linear- 

 oblong bracts : llowers usually large (4 lines long), the broail sepals much dilated in 

 fruit. — Proc. Amur. Acail. xii. 54. 



Scott Mountains, Siskiyou County {Itev. E. L. Greene) ; also ajiparcntly, but without the bulb- 

 iferous base, from SauceHto {G. R. Vasctj), Noyo {Boluiuler), Mount Sluiitd {Jloukcr & Gray), and 

 Lassen's Peak, J/vi. li M. Auslin. 



5'. C. dichotoma, Nutt. Low and slender, 1 to 3 inches high, branching from 

 the base and above : leaves linear, an inch long or less : tiowers racemose, small ; 

 sepals a line long or less ; petals unequal : stamens 3 : seeds small, minutely tuber- 

 culate, dull. — Torr. ik Gray, Fl. i. 202. 



Near Yreka, Siskiyou County (Greene), and northward to the Columbia. With the habit of 

 Muiilia, but petals distinct. The seeds of C. linearis are large and sbining. 



6. C. diffusa, Xutt. Humboldt County, V. Rattan. 



8 C. triphylla, Watson. Eagle Creek Mountains, Union County, Oregon 

 {W. C. Casirk), and Simcoe Mountains, "Washington Territory, J. Howell. 



10. C. NevadensiS, Watson. Plumas County, }frs. Austvi. Kootstock thick- 

 ened or slender. 



Page 77. 5. SPRAGUEA. 



1. S umbellata, Torr. Head of South Fork of King's River, Matthews. 



rage 78. 6. CALYPTRIDIUM. 



2. C. roseum, "Watson. Near San Pjernardino, Dr. C. C. Parry. 



rage 80. 1. ELATINE. 



1. E. Americana, Arn. Leaves obovate and very obtuse: llowers se.ssile, 

 closed or sometimes expanded and remaining so, pur|»lish : stamens 2 or sometimes 3, 

 as many as the petals and sepals : seeds eylindrical, slightly curved, about a thinl of 

 a line long, very minutely pitted in 9 or 10 longitudinal lines (20 or 30 pits in each 

 line). — Gray, Proc Amer. Acad. xiii. 3G1. 



The more common American species, found on the Columbia Kiver {Hall, Ilotccll), but not 

 collected in CaHfornia. 



2. E. brachysperma, Gray, 1. c. Mostly terrestrial, sometimes submersed or 

 floating : leaves oblong or oval and attenuate at base or 6ublanceolate : llowers sessile, 

 mostly dimerous ; stamens 2 or 3 : .seeds short-oblong, nearly straight, not over a 

 fourth of a line long, more coarsely pitted in 6 or 7 lines of 10 to 12 pits. 



California, Kcllwiq k Harford, n. 2J7 ; locality not noted. Also from Illinois and Te.vas. 



3. E. Californica, Gray, 1. c. Floating : leaves obovate, attenuate at base, the 

 lower with a jietiole not longer than the blade : flowers shortly pedicellate, with 

 3 or 4 sepals and petals and twice as many stamens : seeds circinate-incurved, nearly 

 a third of a line long, minutely pitted in 10 or 12 lines (about 25 i)its to each line). 



In Sierra Valley, /. G. Lemmon. Tlie only American rei)resentative of the section Elatindla. 



2. BERGIA. 



1. B. Texana, Seub. On the Columbia IJiver, ./. Iluwdl. 



Page 81. 1. HYPERICUM. 



2. H. concinnum, Benth. Tn the Coast Ranges north of San Francisco ; Rus- 

 sian Piiver, V. L'<itta)i, G. R. Vasey. 



