APPENDIX. 1085 



P. 725, after Fraxinus Pennsylvania, insert: 



4a. Fraxinus Michauxii Britton. MICHAUX'S ASH. A large tree, 

 with rough and fissured bark, the young twigs either velvety-pubes- 

 cent or giabrate. Leaflets 5-9, long-stalked, oblong-lanceolate, thick, 

 entire, 13 cm. long or less, dark green above, paler and more or less 

 pubescent beneath; samaras broadly spatulate, 3.5-5 cm. long, 8-10 

 mm. wide, the thick obtuse or notched wing as long as or longer than 

 the nearly terete body and decurrent on its sides to or above the mid- 

 dle. In swamps S. N. Y. to N. C. Type specimen from a wild tree 

 in the New York Botanical Garden. [F. tomentosa Michx. f. Arb. For. 3: 

 pi. p, but not as to the description there given, which applies to F. 

 Pennsylvania.} 



P. 733, after Gentiana parvifblia, insert: 



pa. Gentiana latifdlia (Chapm.) Britton. CHAPMAN'S GENTIAN. 

 Stem puberulent, 3-5 dm. tall. Leaves oblong to elliptic, narrowed at 

 both ends, acute, 2-8 cm. long, ciliolate; flowers several in a terminal 

 cluster, sometimes also in the upper axils; calyx- tube glabrous, its 

 lobes linear to linear-lanceolate, spreading, about as long as the tube, 

 ciliolate; corolla rose-purple, funnelform, 4-5 cm. long, its lobes ovate, 

 acute, "much longer than the 2 -cleft but otherwise nearly entire plaits; 

 seeds broadly winged. In moist soil, Va. to Fla. and Ala. Oct.-Nov. 



P. 733, after Gentiana Saponaria, insert: 



loa. Gentiana de"cora Pollard. MOUNTAIN GENTIAN. Stems finely 

 puberulent, 5 dm. high or less. Leaves thin, ciliolate, oblong to oblong- 

 elliptic, 5-8 cm. long, acute at both ends, sessile, or the lowest much 

 smaller and obtuse; flowers usually several in a terminal cluster, some- 

 times also solitary in the upper axils; calyx 1.5 cm. long or less, its 

 lobes subulate, spreading, shorter than the pubescent tube; corolla 

 purple, 2.5-3 cm. long, its ovate lobes much longer than the cleft plaits; 

 seeds winged. In mountain woods, Va. to Ga. Sept. -Oct. 



P. 735, after Bartonia Virginica, insert: 



xa. Bartonia lanceolata Small. SHARP-PETALLED BARTONIA. Re- 

 sembling B. Virginica, but with the branches spreading or upwardly 

 curved; corolla-lobes lanceolate, acute or acuminate, entire (in B. Vir- 

 ginica oblong, abruptly tipped, more or less erose). Moist soil, N. Y. 

 to Fla. and Ark. Aug.-Oct. 



P. 743, before Asclepias Meadii, insert: 



loa. Asclepias intermedia Vail. INTERMEDIATE MILKWEED. Stems 

 erect, glabrous, purplish, not glaucous, 3 dm. high or more; 

 leaves oblong-elliptic, yellow-green and glabrous above, paler and 

 minutely pubescent beneath, 8-14 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, obtuse, or 

 the upper ones subcordate at the base, obtuse and apiculate at 'the 

 apex, the margins undulate: petioles 1-3 mm. long; umbels terminal, 

 2 or more, short-peduncled, i6-24-flowered; peduncles minutely and 

 sparingly pubescent, 2-8 cm. long; pedicels 2.5-3 cm. long, slender, 

 minutely pubescent; corolla green-purple, its segments oblong-lanceo- 

 late, 6-8 mm. long; hoods erect, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 5-6 mm. 

 long, pinkish purple with a darker red or purplish stripe down the back, 

 the lateral margins incurved, each with an erect tooth somewhat above 

 the middle; horn slender, the tips incurved and meeting over the anthers, . 

 free from about the middle of the hood. Lawrence, Long Island. Ap- 

 pears to be intermediate between Asclepias Syriaca and A. amplexicaulis 

 and may be a hybrid. 



