ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 437 



rage 83. 1. LAVATERA. 



1. L. assurgentiflora, Kell. Involucre 3-cleft to below the middle : calyx 

 deeply 5- 7-tnLillicil, becoming 6 or 8 lines long in fruit. 



2. L. insularis, Watson. A stout perennial, finely stellate-pubescent : leaves 

 circular in outline, 7-lobed to the middle, the lobes rounded and obtuse, coarsely 

 crenate-toothed : flowers solitary in tlie axils, on deflexed pedicels about an inch 

 long : involucre of 3 nearly distinct oblong-spatulate acutish bracts : calyx 5-cleft to 

 the middle with broadly ovate acute lobes, much dilated in fruit : petals spatulate, 

 emarginate, purplish-yellow, IJ inches long, naked at base: styles not exserted : 

 fruit slightly pubescent, ^ inch broad, about 1 0-carpelled. — Proc. Anier. Acad. 

 xii. 249. 



Coronados Islands, near San Diego, D. Cleveland. A fourth species (L. vcnosa, Watson, 1. c.) 

 has been collected on San Benito Island, Lower California ; leaves with triangular acutish lobes ; 

 flowers smaller, clustered, deep purple, with nearly distinct oblong-ovate involucrate bracts e([ual- 

 ling the calyx, exserted styles, and glabrous fruit, the carpels strongly veined on the sides. 



3. SIDALCEA. 



1. S. malvaeflora, Gray. Rarely more or less stellate-pubescent : carpels apicu- 

 late, sometimes alightly pubescent. 



Page 85. 4. MALVASTRUM. 



3. M. splendidum, Kell. Los Angeles (Mrs. A. E. Bush) ; Bartlett's Canon, 

 near Santa Darbara, Rothrock. 



5^ M. Palmeri, Watson. Stout, very densely stellate-pubescent, the branches 



somewhat flexuous : leaves broadly ovate, truncate or subcordate at base, 2 or 3 

 inches long, somewhat 3 - 5-lobed, the lobes obtusish, crenate-toothed ; stipules 

 lanceolate, conspicuous : flowers nearly sessile in terminal clusters ; bractlets linear- 

 lanceolate, nearly equalling the acuminate calyx-lobes : petals yellowish rose-color, 

 an inch long : carpels rounded, somewhat pubescent. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 250. 

 At Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, a mile from the beach, Palnur, n. 90, 1876. 



Page 87. 8. HIBISCUS. 



1. H. Californicus, Kell, Flowers white changing to light rose-color. Differ- 

 ing from the eastern H. Moscheutos chiefly in its less acuminate leaves, cordate at 

 base, and less white beneath. 



Page 88. 1. EREMONTIA. 



1. F. Californica, Torr. Known locally as " Slippery Elm," the inner bark 

 being used as a substitute for that of Ulmus fulva. — Rothrock, Rot. Wheeler's 

 ExpL 357. 



2. AYENIA, Linn. 



Flowers very small, naked. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, with narrow incurved 

 claws, the cucullate-concave blade adnate to the urceolate stamineal tube. Anthers 5, 

 3-celled, alternate with 5 staminodial lobes and opposite to the petals. Ovary 

 5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled : stigma capitate. Capsule muricate, separating into 5 

 1-seeded 2-valved carpels. Seeds transversely rugose, without albumen. — Herbs or 

 shrubs, with simple serrate leaves, small stipules, and flowers in small axillary shortly 

 pedunculate cymes. 



A genus of warmer and tropical America, of 8 species. 



