ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



TO VOL. I. 



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Herbs or shrubs with alternate simple leaves, monoecious 

 flowers, and 3-lobed 3-seeded capsule. Argythamnia in Euphoreiack^, 87. 



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Fruit a 3-lobed and 3-celled 3-seeded capsule. Flowers monoecious, mostly 5-merous. Filaments 

 united. Styles 1 - 3-dichotomous. Herbs or shrubs with alternate simple leaves and 

 purplish juice. Aroythawsia in Uu2ihorbiacece (vol. ii. 69). 



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4*. Trautvetteria. Flowers perfect, corymbose, white. Sepals not spurred. Petals none. 

 Akenes numerous, capitate, 4-angled. 



6*. Coptis. Petals linear-filiform, cncullate in the middle. Leaves ternate, radical from a run- 

 ning rootstock. Stem scape-like. Carpels 3 to 7, stipitate. 



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2^ A. Drummondii. Resemblino- A. mtdtifida, but rather more slender, and 

 the villous pubescence more scanty and less spreading : leaves mostly smaller, with 

 shorter and narrower segments : heads ovate : style more slender and elongated 

 (1| lines long) : akenes larger and oblong (2 lines long), and less densely woolly. — 

 A. Balclensis, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 15. 



Sierra County {Lemmnn) ; Lassen's Peak, at 9-lLOOO feet altitude {Mrs. Ai(sfin) ; Scott 

 Mountains, near snow {Greene, Lemmon) ; and in the Kocky Mountains, lat. 49° {LyciU) and lat. 

 52-55°, Drummond. A. muUifida does not appear to have been yet found in California, though 

 collected on the Columbia River by Douglas and in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, by Watson. 



3. A. nemorosa, Linn. A form of tliis species with large bright blue flowers 

 occurs in Oregon, on Hood River {Mrs. P. G. Barrett, J. Hoivell), and in Klickitat 

 County, Washington Territory, W. N. Suksdorf. 



4. A. deltoidea, Hook. Head of Scott River, near Jackson Lake, Siskiyou 

 County, Rev. E. L. Greene. 



3. THALICTEUM. 



The Californian species are the following. 



* Flowers dioecious : anthers linear, acute or acuminate. 



1. T. polycarpum, Watson. Rather stout, 2 or 3 feet high or more, glabrous : 

 leaves with short peti(_»les or the upper sessile ; leaflets variable, 3 to 12 lines long ; 

 lobes acutish to acuminate : panicle narrow, often small, the staminate usually 

 crowded on short pedicels : anthers acute, on very slender hlaments : fruit in dense 

 heads, compressed, broadly oblong-obovate or obovate, abruptly acute, 2h or 3 lines 

 long : seed linear, terete, nearly 2 lines long. — Proc. Anier. Acad. xiv. 288. T. 

 Fendleri, var. [fj polycarpum, Torr. in Pacif R. Rep. iv. 61, in part. 



Common in the Coast Ranges from Monterey to the Columbia River, and in the Sierra Nevada 

 from the Yosemite Valley and Mono Pass northward. 



