BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. XCV 



P. 231. 



5. Senecio palustris, Hook. Root biennial ; stem stout, - 3 high, 

 woolly when young, glabrous with age ; leaves laciniate or irregularly cut- 

 toothed, the upper with a cordate-clasping base ; heads many in a corymb, with 

 20 or more short rays, the pappus becoming very long. N. W. Wisconsin ( T. 

 J. Hak) and northward. (Eu.) 



6. S. lobatus, Pers. (BUTTER-WEED.) Annual, glabrous, or loosely 

 woolly at first ; leaves rather fleshy, lyraie or pinnately divided ; the divisions 

 crenate or cut-lobed, variable; heads many in a corymb, small ; rays about 12. 



Low banks of the Ohio and Mississippi, Illinois and southward. 



P. 237. 



Lygodesmia juncea, Don. Flowers nearly as in Nabalus (only 5 in 

 the head), purple or rose-colored, the heads erect and solitary ; pappus copious, 

 soft and whitish; stems branched, rush-like, 1 high, striate, with few lanceolate 

 or subulate rigid leaves. St. Croix River, Wisconsin, T. J. Hale, and common 

 northward. 



P. 250. 



CALLUXA VULGARIS, Salisb., the HEATHER of Europe, was recently dis- 

 covered by Mr. Jackson Dawson well established in Tewksbury, Massachu- 

 setts, in low grounds, whether indigenous or in some way introduced is still in 

 question. 



P. 268. 



2. Plantago sparsi flora, Michx. Belongs to 1, except that the 

 seeds are only one in each cell and somewhat boat-shaped ; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, acute, entire or denticulate, 3 - 5-nerved, tapering into a margined pe- 

 tiole, hain* or smooth; scape long and slender (6' -18' high) ; spike filiform, 

 sparsely flowered ; bracts ovate ; lobes of the corolla acute ; pod oblong, 2-seeded. 



Mound City, S. Illinois (Dr. Vasey), and southward. 



P. 273. 



6*. LTSIMACHIA NUMMUL\RIA, L., described in Garden Botany, p. Ixiii., a 



creeping species, with round leaves and solitary flowers from their axils, has 

 escaped from the gardens and run wild in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



P. 293. 



8*. Gerardia grandifldra, Benth. Intermediate in appearance and 

 in the size of the corolla between no 6 and no. 9, minutely downy ; stem 3 - 4 

 high, much branched ; leaves mostly pinnatifid and cut. (Dasystoma Drum- 

 mondi, Benth. ) Oak-openings, &c., Wisconsin, Lapham, Illinois, Vasey, and 

 southward. 



P. 318. 



3. LAMIUM ALBUM, L , a perennial species, with rather large white flowers, 

 and petioled coarsely crenate leaves, is found in waste grounds around Boston 

 by D. Murray. (Adv. from Eu.) 



