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teas are as long or longer than the pedicels, many of 

 which, in our specimens, are recurved. 



GENISTA, (p. 155.) 



2. G. anglica, a neat thorny shrub, about a span high ; thorns 

 simple, none on the flowering branches ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 small, smooth ; flowers yellow, axillary ; legume smooth. Petty 

 Whin. 



Hob. Heaths, frequent. Coldingham Moor, Rev. A. Baird. 

 Moor near Westruther, Mr J. Thomson. Occurs scat- 

 tered over all the Lammermuirs. Doddington Moor ; 

 and on the moors between Wooler and Beltbrd. June. 



TRIFOLIUM, (p. 155.) 



The reader is requested to substitute for T. officinale^ p. 162, 

 the following : 



1 . T. leucanthum, legumes 2-seeded, ovate, wrinkled ; clusters 

 lax, unilateral, greenish-white ; corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 keel and wings shorter than the standard ; stem erect Melilotus 

 leucantha, HOOKER, Brit. Fl. i. 327- 



Hab. Coupland plantations near Wooler, James Mitchell, 

 Esq. R. N. The habitats given under T. officinale be- 

 long to this species. July. 



Mr WINCH appears first to have noticed this plant in Britain. 

 u A variety bearing white blossoms has been observed by 

 Mr WINCH growing on Willington Ballast, Durham"; 

 and on the Ballast-hills below Gateshead." WITHERING, 

 Bot. Arrang. iii. 795, edit. 5th. It is not a rare plant in 

 this neighbourhood, but, like the botanist just mentioned, 

 I had failed to perceive the characters which separate it 

 from Trif. officinale. The latter, so far as I know, has not 

 been yet detected in Berwickshire. 



TRAGOPOGON, (p. 170.) 



^or T.pratensis, described at p. 172, the reader will substi- 

 tute 



1. T. major, " calyx more than half as long again as the corolla; 

 leaves tapering, straight, sometimes slightly undulated ; peduncles 



