AUDITIONS AiND CUliUKCTiUNS TU VUL. II, 4 •5-9 



I'fifio 44. Insert the following new genus of Cnici/crcc: — 



20». STANFORDIA. 

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

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

 3-ixarted. 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-Iobed stigma. —Annual, erect and 

 branching, nearly glabrous, with tootlied leaves. 



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

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

 iiately toothed, 2 inches long, the uj)per lanceolate, sessile and clasping, acutely ser- 

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

 becoming ])ale : calyx 3 or 4 lines long : petals obi)andurif()rm, somewhat cordate at 

 base, e.iualling the sepals : stamens included : i)ods an incli long or less : seeds 

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



.1 ^ n\""?- '"''o'" ,'^."''^''^' ^^^'■•'- ^^- ^'- ^^'"'''- A very remmknble genus, allied to Trnpidocarjmvi, to 

 tlie Lliilian Schnopdalon, and in some respects to Grrqqia, but peculiar in its calyx, corolla, anJ 

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

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



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 

 TO VOL. n. 



Page 2. 1. MIRABILIS. 



1. M. multiflora, Oray. IJoot very large: Ilowers open from four o'clock in 

 the afternoon till nine in the morning. 



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

 PI. iii. 4) to Oxi/fjap/ms, distinguishing that genus liy a short campanulate or funnel- 

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



rage 8. 2. RITMEX. 



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

 cluster of large tuberous roots. — R. Saxci, Kellogg, Pacif. Puial Press, June, 1879. 



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

 .nnd damp localities, ^f7•.<l. A. E. Bnah. The stems and leaves have a pleasant acidity and are useil 

 in California, as in Utah, under the name of Wild Tie-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 Avini/an'a read : — xft/lea 3, deciduous. 



12'. P. Bid'welliSB, Watson. Smaller, with short dense spikes, the large con- 

 spicuous 2-lol»ed scarious and chafl-like sti]>ules (2 lines long) equalling or exceed- 

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



