APPENDIX. 1091 



P. 841, after Euphrasia Oakesii, add: 



5. Euphrasia Williamsii Robinson. WILLIAMS' EYEBRIGHT. Stem 

 slender, simple, erect, 310 cm. high, pubescent with crisped white 

 hairs. Leaves 5-8 mm. long, ciliolate near the margin, otherwise gla- 

 brous, the lower ovate-oblong, about 7 -toothed, the upper obovate to 

 flabelliform or suborbicular, crowded; flowers in a terminal dense leafy 

 spike, the bracts with 7 or 9 acutish teeth; calyx 4 mm. long, its teeth 

 lanceolate; corolla brownish purple with a yellow eye, about 4 mm. 

 long; capsule elliptic, obcordate, ciliate above. Mt. Washington, N. H. 

 July-Aug. 



P. 857, after Plantago major, insert: 



la. Plantago halophila Bicknell. SALT-MARSH PLANTAIN. Very 

 similar to P. major, often diminutive, but sometimes as large. More or 

 less hirsutulous-tomentulose throughout, dull green, the spikes and scapes 

 often bright purplish; leaves thick, undulate, often prostrate in a stiff 

 rosette or ascending, the blades usually but not always longer than the 

 petioles; scapes stiff and slender, commonly upcurved-assurgent, the 

 naked lower part mostly longer than the leaves and often 2-4 times the 

 length of the narrow spikes; bracts thinner and less concave than in 

 P. major, mostly rather shorter and more ovate and acute; pyxis relatively 

 narrower than in P. major, circumscissile mostly within the tips of the 

 sepals and somewhat below the middle, lid longer and less conic than in 

 P. major. Salt marshes and shores, Me. to N. J. Type from Van Cort- 

 landt, N. Y. City, flowering in July, about two weeks later than P. major. 



P. 859. Strike out note on Plantago occidentalis, and substitute: 

 I2a. Plantago rhodospe"rma Decne. RED-SEEDED PLANTAIN. An- 

 nual or biennial, densely pubescent; scapes erect or decumbent, 

 2.5-20 cm. long, usually much longer than the leaves. Leaves and 

 spikes similar to those of P. Virginica; flowers dioecious; bracts and 

 calyx-lobes acuminate; capsules oblong, about 3 mm. long; seeds dark 

 red (golden yellow in P. Virginica}. Sandy soil, Mo. to La., Tex. and 

 Ariz. April-July. 



P. 865, after Galium Mollugo, inse t: 



2a. Galium er^ctum Huds. UPRIGHT BEDSTRAW. Resembles G. 

 Mollugo, but has larger white flowers on ascending pedicels (pedicels 

 divergent in G. Mollugo} ; branches erect or ascending. In fields, N. S. 

 to N. J. Adv. from Europe. May-Sept. 



P. 868, after Galium aspre*llum insert: 



2ia. Galium sylv&tic'im L WOOD BEDSTRAW. Perennial, 5-8 dm. 

 high, erect. Stem obtusely 4-angled, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 

 not rough; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, obtuse or acute, those 

 of the stem whorled, in 6's or 8's, 3-4 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, those 

 of the branches fewer in the whorls or often opposite; panicle usually 

 large, the pedicels filiform, nodding before flowering, erect-spreading 

 in fruit; flowers white; lobes of the corolla apiculate; fruit glabrous. 

 Me. and Vt. Nat. from Continental Europe. June-July. 



P. 869, after Asperula odorata, add: 



2. Asperula galioides M. Bieb. BEDSTRAW ASPERULA. Leaves linear, 

 rigid, usually in 8's, involute-margined, mucronate, subterete, 3 cm. 

 long or less, 1-2 mm. wide; stems erect or ascending, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent below, paniculately branched; fruit smooth. Southington, Conn. 

 Adventive from Europe. 



P. 885, after Campanula rapunculoides, insert: 



3a. Campanula Trachfelium L. NETTLE-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER. Peren- 

 nial, rough-hirsute, 58 dm. tall. Basal leaves broadly ovate, deeply 



