460 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



rather rigid branches, alternate pinnatifid or coarsely toothed leaves, and sessile axil- 

 lary and terminal lieads of l)liie llowers. 



Two or three species are known, natives of the Old World. C. Endivia, Linn., Endive or 

 Garden Suecory, is often cultivated as a salad. 



I. C. Intybus, Linn. Perennial, with a deep thickened root, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 pubescent beluw or glal)rous : leaves runcinate, the upj)er small, narrow, subentire : 

 liead in llower an inch broad or more. 



Santa Barbara {Miss S. A. Plummcr) ; native of Europe, widely natuialized in temperate and 

 tropical regions. The root is e.xtensivtly used us a substitute for cotlec, or for its adulteration. 



Page 435. 116. MALACOTHRIX. 



II. M. platyphylla, Gi-ay. Beaver Dam, Northern Arizona, /^a^m^^r. Akenes 

 2 lines long, ash-colored, corky, striate-cylindric, truncate and pitted at the summit. 



Page 442. 124. SONCHUS. 



1. S. oleraceus, Linn. Santa Barbara {Mrs. Cooper) ; San Diego, Cleveland. 

 Page 445. 2. NEMACLADUS. 



1'. N. longiflorus, Ch-ay. Slender branching annual, 3 to 6 inches high, with 

 habit of N. rainosisscmas ; leaves hoary-puliescent : caly.x 5-parted, free from and 

 much shorter than the narrow oblong compressed capsule, its lobes equal: corolla 

 tubular, strictly gamopetalous, 3 lines long, 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx : fila- 

 ments more united : cajjsule 2 lines long, 2-valved to the base : seeds short-oval. — 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. GO. 



San Diego and San Bernardino Counties, Wallace, Parry k Lcmmon, Cleveland. This second 

 species reiiuires a modification of the generic character, esi)ccially as respects the adnation of the 

 calyx to the ovary and the characters of the capsule. 



Pape446. 1. GITHOPSIS. 



1. Gr. specularioides, Xutt. Plumas County, Mrs. Ames, Mrs. Austin. 



Page 451. 1. VACCINIUM. 



3*. V. csespitosum, "Michx. Dwarf and cespitose, 3 to 6 inches high, branches 

 not angled : leaves ol)ovate to cuneate-oblong, obtuse or rarely acutish, closely serru- 

 late, bright green both sides, reticulately veined, 3 to 9 lines long : corolla ovate or 

 ovate-oblong: berry glaucous-blue, sweet. — Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 33, t. 126, and 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3429. 



Var. arbuscula, Oray. About a foot high, with rather broader and thicker 

 leaves. — Syn. Fl. ii. 24. 



Plumas County (Mrs. Austin) ; Mount Shasta (Hooker & Gray) ; Simcoe Mountains, Oregon 

 (Howell) ; the variety only. Tlie species ranges in several forms from Alaska and Hudson's Bay 

 to California, Utali and Colorado, and tlie northern bonier States. 



Page 452. 3. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



Tlie Californian species of this genus are thus rearranged by Dr. Gray in the 

 Synoptical Flora of North America. 



§ 1. Drupe smooth, mealy : nutlets separate or separable, or irregnlarbj coales- 

 cent. — UvA-URsi. 



* Depressed tra 'ding or creeping, green, glabrous or puberulent : Jloioers 2 lines 

 long, in sinall simple clusters : ouarg and reddish fruit glabrous. 



1. A. Uva-ursi, Spreng. Not yet detected in California. 



